From Brian Lockhart, CT Post: The Tahoe is supposedly a “pool” car assigned to the office of Chief Administrative Officer John Gomes and shared by different employees. That is the same John Gomes who, earlier this year, had a key role in cost-cutting measures to trim the budget, from layoffs to … wait for it […]
Entries Tagged as 'John Gomes'
How Will City Retrieve Ganim’s Stolen SUV?
September 28th, 2016 · 13 Comments · Law Enforcement, News and Events
Tags: AJ Perez·Av Harris·Brian Lockhart·CT Post·Joe Ganim·John Gomes
Show Me The Money???!!!
September 25th, 2016 · 22 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Education, Law Enforcement, News and Events
Financial watchdog John Marshal Lee reports on the Community March in Solidarity With Our Police Department held Saturday, and questions the absence of support for education. SHOW ME THE MONEY???!!! This afternoon a “Community March in Solidarity With Our Police Department” walked a few blocks from New Hope Missionary Baptist Church at 100 Park Ave. […]
Tags: Angel DePara·Joe Ganim·John Gomes·John Marshall Lee·John Olson·M. Evette Brantley·Tom McCarthy
In April Budget Hearing The Sound Of Crickets, What About Tuesday?
July 3rd, 2016 · 45 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council, News and Events
On April 21, this happened: the City Council’s Budget and Appropriations Committee conducted a public hearing on the city’s spending plan and two taxpayers spoke. On Tuesday, now that they’ve received their tax bills, angry taxpayers are trying to rally a protest for the City Council meeting. Isn’t it better to scream before the budget is […]
Tags: Joe Ganim·John Gomes·John Marshall Lee·Ken Flatto·Nestor Nkwo
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
Crickets … Two Speakers For City Council Public Hearing On $560 Million Budget
April 22nd, 2016 · 7 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council, Education, News and Events
Well, two speakers are better than none, right? At 6:07 p.m. on Thursday Scott Burns, co-chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, called the meeting to order for the public to speak on Mayor Joe Ganim’s proposed $560 million budget. Michael Bottillo, a postal worker from the West Side, stepped up to the microphone. “The […]
Tags: Joe Ganim·John Gomes·John Marshall Lee·Ken Flatto·Nestor Nkwo
Ganim: Malloy Budget Cuts Devastating–Will State Legislature Rescue City?
April 14th, 2016 · 37 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, News and Events
The financial scenario is ugly. Mayor Joe Ganim on Wednesday issued a distress letter to department heads that calls Governor Dan Malloy’s state budget cuts potentially “devastating.” Malloy is trying to close a nearly $1 billion projected deficit for the budget year starting July 1. Malloy axed, according to Ganim, $8 to $10 million in […]
Tags: CT Mirror·Dan Malloy·Joe Ganim·John Gomes·Ken Flatto·Nestor Nkwo
Is Gomes Ganim’s Hatchet Man?
March 11th, 2016 · 48 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, News and Events
The city released on Friday a list of city employees who were pink-slipped last week, largely developed by acting Chief Administrative Officer John Gomes described in a CT Post article as Mayor Joe Ganim’s hatchet man. Gomes has been called worse than that by some city employees in response to how he goes about things, […]
Staley Joins City Management Team
July 21st, 2016 · 53 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, News and Events
UPDATE: Kimberly Staley who most recently served as vice president and director of client services for the KRA Corporation, a workforce development company, has been hired as assistant chief administrative officer. Staley was raised in Father Panik Village and PT Barnum public housing projects. The annual salary is $127,555.
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Tags: Joe Ganim·John Gomes