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Entries Categorized as 'Civil Service'
Firebird Leader Blisters Ganim For ‘Plantation Mentality’ In Fire Department
June 1st, 2016 · 40 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Civil Service, Firefighters, News and Events
Darrien Penix, president of the Firebird Society that fights for the rights of minority firefighters, uses Joe Ganim’s words on the campaign trail against him asserting the Fire Department looks “all white at the top,” a declaration the mayor made when challenging incumbent Bill Finch last year. Penix asserts nothing has changed in the six […]
Brian Rooney To Retire As Fire Chief, Who’s Next In Line?
May 17th, 2016 · 58 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Civil Service, Firefighters, News and Events
UPDATE: Bridgeport Fire Chief Brian Rooney is planning his retirement from the department later this week, per city charter regulation limiting the chief’s tenure to two five-year terms. One of the prominent names as a possible replacement on an acting basis is Assistant Fire Chief Richard Thode, a department veteran for more than 20 years. […]
Tags: AJ Perez·Brian Rooney·Joe Ganim·Joe Gaudett·John Fabrizi·Ron Mackey
Chief Perez Honored At Cuban Club, What’s Chapman’s Future?
May 2nd, 2016 · 8 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Civil Service, Law Enforcement, News and Events
Friends, family, police officers and city officials Saturday night honored Police Chief Armando J. Perez at The Cuban Lyceum as the city’s first Cuban-American police head. On March 1, Perez was appointed acting chief by Mayor Joe Ganim shortly after the resignation of Joe Gaudett who negotiated a new consulting contract to oversee the emergency […]
Tags: AJ Perez·Bill Finch·James Nardozzi·Joe Ganim·Joe Gaudett·John Gomes·Sacred Heart University
Debating Demographic Makeup Of Uniformed Services, Day, Mackey and Dunn Air Out Positions
March 9th, 2016 · 18 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Civil Service, Firefighters, Law Enforcement, News and Events
Retired African American city firefighters Donald Day and Ron Mackey, both of whom took on City Hall to increase the hiring of minorities and females in the department in the 1980s and 1990s, assert in this joint commentary the city’s testing policy has set back the demographic makeup of uniform services. Civil Service Personnel Director David […]
Tags: Bill Finch·David Dunn·Eleanor Guedes·Joe Ganim·Ralph Jacobs·Ron Mackey·Tom Bucci
Council Committee Meeting Set To Address Gaudett Contract
February 22nd, 2016 · 11 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, Civil Service, Law Enforcement, News and Events
The City Council’s Contracts Committee is scheduled to meet February 29, 5:30 p.m. in the Wheeler Room of City Hall to examine a pact with Joe Gaudett segueing from police chief to supervising a department as a contract worker. The three-year package is worth roughly $125,000 per year that also allows Gaudett to continue collecting […]
Tags: AJ Perez·Bill Finch·David Dunn·Jack Banta·Jim Holloway·Joe Ganim·Joe Gaudett·Milta Feliciano
Gaudett Contract Package Worth $200K Annually
February 18th, 2016 · 55 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, Civil Service, Law Enforcement, News and Events
When the City Council votes on a pact with Joe Gaudett transitioning from police chief to supervising a department as a contract worker, it will be asked to approve a three-year package of roughly $125,000 a year that allows him to also access his $78,534 current annual city pension.
Tags: AJ Perez·Bill Finch·David Dunn·Joe Ganim·Joe Gaudett·Lenny Paoletta
Ex Assistant Chief Nardozzi Sues City For Illegal Termination, Claims Deal Between Union And Mayor
August 4th, 2017 · 29 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Politics, Civil Service, Law Enforcement, News and Events
James Nardozzi was hired as assistant chief under Mayor Bill Finch to reel in overtime and then was booted by Mayor Joe Ganim because Nardozzi hit the pocketbook of cops who supported Ganim’s comeback campaign by millions of dollars. That charge, among others, is part of a state lawsuit that Nardozzi has brought against the […]
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Tags: AJ Perez·Bill Finch·James Nardozzi·Joe Ganim·Joe Gaudett·John Gomes