From Mayor Bill Finch:
The Snow Emergency in the City of Bridgeport has been lifted as of 6 p.m., tonight (Friday).
“I want to thank our residents for their cooperation in following the Snow Emergency and alternate side of the street parking rules during the past two days,” said Mayor Bill Finch. “Our public works personnel were able to keep streets open for first responders and residents to travel safely during the storm, which is the most important goal of enacting a snow emergency.”
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Yahoo!
Baffled has a twisted sense of humor. Maybe we should throw a Yahoos of Bridgeport party!
No room big enough for that group.
Lennie,
Is it easier to “lift a snow emergency” than to lift a snow shovel? Let’s see what the citizens of Bridgeport remember. When I raised the snow shovel at City Council on Monday evening, the message resonated with the audience, and hopefully the Council gets the same message.
Mayor Finch needs to send a fourth budget to the Council and taxpayers for the most serious consideration. It is a budget that shows what he sees as City priorities, if he had only the same amount of money from City taxpayers and a reduced amount for City-side expenses from the State of CT.
That’s realism. Let’s see what he values, and what or who he holds less dear. And tell us about nearly two years of police overtime overexpenditures in the millions, and whether the City ran a deficit or surplus last year and why no comment has been made, and lots of other things that are actual and realistic heavy lifting. For those who read my posts, you know the “usual subjects,” right? Silence from the Annex. Time will tell.
Expect Finch to brag about what a great job he did during this so-called storm.
My street has never been plowed more or better than this “storm.” It is a shame the great service this time had to come on the heels of a disaster.
Mayor Finch brought in private contractors for this one. $150.00 an hr per piece of equipment. Only a few inches of snow. Finch must have no faith in HIS PEOPLE running the Public Works Dept! So money collected parking on snow streets went to Anthony Julian. Just another day in Bpt.
Anthony Julian trucks were operating in Fairfield in the first days of the blizzard. We were lower on the ladder to get their attention. Perhaps the Fairfield equipment was adequate and in operating condition for the weather this past week? What can be said of City of Bridgeport equipment in that same regard? Perhaps the facts will come out when the Mayor has time to post his report on “What I learned at the listening session” in the near future. Or maybe Roadway Management that has the $100,000 Snow Overtime appropriation will let the “snowman” out of the bag with an explanation to curious Council members. Is this an area of Mayoral ACCOUNTABILITY? Time will tell.
*** Wonder how much the total revenue is once paid to the city of Bpt for bogus snow emergency parking tickets? No snow Thursday followed by 3 to 6 inches on Friday by the shoreline in which everybody and their brother in State and City government panicked by closing schools, etc. I thought this was New England and used to snow every now and then in the winter, no? *** WINTER BLUES! ***
Snow Emergency? In Chicago, maybe. The ticket blitz was a disgrace. Finch, if he had an OUNCE of integrity would have resigned already. But we all know better than that …