A weary Budget and Appropriations Committee turned a long day’s Saturday journey into an early morning Sunday vote just after midnight by cutting nearly $4 million from Mayor Joe Ganim’s $560 million spending plan, adding roughly $1.5 million to the flatfunded Board of Education, delaying a police class until the next fiscal year, cutting vacant positions […]
Entries Tagged as 'Joe Gaudett'
Budget Committee Cuts Chapman From Ganim Plan, Delays Police Class, Adds $1.5 Million To Education
May 9th, 2016 · 22 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Education, Law Enforcement
Tags: Aidee Nieves·AJ Perez·AmyMarie Vizzo-Paniccia·Av Harris·Bill Finch·Denese Taylor-Moye·Joe Ganim·Joe Gaudett·Jose Casco·M. Evette Brantley·Tom McCarthy
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
Ganim Sends Police Substation And Community Center Contract To City Council
April 29th, 2016 · 22 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council, City Politics, Development and Zoning, Law Enforcement, Library, News and Events
Mayor Joe Ganim has submitted a draft lease agreement to the City Council regarding a police substation and community center site located at Trumbull Gardens housing units, a flashpoint of the 2015 mayoral election following intense gun violence. The lease agreement will be referred to the Contracts Committee at Monday night’s council meeting. The Ganim administration has […]
Nardozzi: Pay Me Or I’ll Sue
April 18th, 2016 · 26 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Law Enforcement, News and Events
James Nardozzi was brought in as assistant chief to reel in police overtime under Mayor Bill Finch. He appeared to do that for a while, did not endear himself to some police officers who supported Joe Ganim for mayor and then found himself out of a job during a reorganization of the department. He wants […]
Tags: AJ Perez·Bill Finch·CT Post·Dan Tepfer·James Nardozzi·Joe Ganim·Joe Gaudett
Ganim Tabs AJ To Be Ajax Of Police Department
March 4th, 2016 · 23 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Law Enforcement, News and Events
Captain Armando Perez, better known as AJ, is now Acting Police Chief Perez. Mayor Joe Ganim Thursday night in a packed City Council Chambers issued the oath of office to his friend who supported him during good times, bad times and now redemption times. The search for a permanent chief could take upwards of a […]
City Council President Tom McCarthy’s Shackle-Free Independence
March 2nd, 2016 · 19 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, City Politics, Law Enforcement
For his first eight years as City Council president while on the public payroll reporting to Mayor Bill Finch, Tom McCarthy never challenged his boss from his perch as head of the legislative branch. Last week, McCarthy spent his last official payday as deputy director of Labor Relations courtesy of a Joe Ganim-engineered severance package […]
Tags: Bill Finch·Joe Ganim·Joe Gaudett·Mark Anastasi·Tom McCarthy
Gaudett Resigns As Chief, Perez In Charge Of Police Department
March 1st, 2016 · 15 Comments · City Council, Law Enforcement, News and Events
Following the City Council’s Monday night approval of a consulting contract to oversee the emergency operations center, Joe Gaudett on Tuesday issued his resignation as police chief. Captain A.J. Perez will lead the department as acting chief.
Tags: AJ Perez·Joe Ganim·Joe Gaudett
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. […]
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Tags: AJ Perez·Brian Rooney·Joe Ganim·Joe Gaudett·John Fabrizi·Ron Mackey