From Public Safety spokesman Bill Kaempffer: Police Capt. Robert Gearing hasn’t sought accolades while spending countless hours working to make the city’s East Side and East End a safe and stable place for its residents, visitors and business people.
Entries Tagged as 'Lydia Martinez'
Mayor, City Council Honor Police Captain Robert Gearing
June 16th, 2014 · 2 Comments · City Council, Cops, News and Events
Tags: Bill Finch·Bill Kaempffer·Jim Holloway·Joe Gaudett·Lydia Martinez·Milta Feliciano
City Council To Set Tax Rate
June 2nd, 2014 · 6 Comments · City Budget, City Council, News and Events
The official setting of the tax rate, a tax incentive proposed for Downtown development and $75,000 settlement of a lawsuit brought by the former Health Director Marian Evans highlight agenda items for the City Council meeting Monday (tonight) at 7 p.m. in City Hall, 45 Lyon Terrace. The council, as a formality, will set the […]
Tags: Lydia Martinez·Marian Evans·Milta Feliciano·Rosa Correa
Finch Signs Land Document To Developer Of Steel Point For Bass Pro Construction, $1.2 Million For City
April 26th, 2014 · 35 Comments · Development and Zoning, News and Events
UPDATE: Mayor Bill Finch has signed the property transfer documents over to the RCI Group, developer of Steelpointe Harbor, that now controls 12 acres on Stratford Avenue slated for construction of the Bass Pro Shops and other potential retail establishments. In return the city has received a $1,222,400 payment from the developer, according to mayoral […]
Tags: Bass Pro Shops·Bill Finch·Brett Broesder·Lenny Paoletta·Lydia Martinez·Milta Feliciano·Robert Christoph·Steelpointe Harbor
Council Committee Fries Mayor’s Chicken Ordinance
April 23rd, 2014 · 5 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, Development and Zoning, News and Events
By a 3-2 vote, the City Council’s Ordinance Committee on Tuesday plucked Mayor Bill Finch’s proposal to permit and regulate the raising of up to six chickens. Council members Lydia Martinez and Rick Torres (who says Rick’s too chicken to vote with the mayor?) voted in support of the ordinance. In general, ordinances defeated in […]
Tags: AmyMarie Vizzo-Paniccia·Bill Finch·Brian Lockhart·CT Post·Enrique Torres·Lydia Martinez
Budget Time In The City, Finch’s Reelection Challenge
March 31st, 2014 · 28 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council, City Politics
Mayor Bill Finch and city bean counters are putting the finishing touches on a spending plan for submission to the City Council at its next regularly scheduled meeting April 7. That’s when co-chairs Sue Brannelly and Mike Marella, and other members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, engage the next two months reviewing the budget, […]
Tags: AmyMarie Vizzo-Paniccia·Bill Finch·Denese Taylor-Moye·Howard Austin·Joe Ganim·John Fabrizi·Lydia Martinez·Mike Marella·Sue Brannelly·Tom Sherwood·Trish Swain
Andres Ayala’s Mountain Of Absentee Ballots
July 25th, 2014 · 38 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, State Politics
Is there a book in the Bridgeport Public Library to school City Librarian Scott Hughes in the craft of absentee ballots? Quick Scott, take that book out. On Wednesday stretched-thin workers in the Town Clerk’s Office mailed out roughly 850 absentee ballots. And, with less than three weeks until the August 12 Democratic primary, they’re […]
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Tags: Alberto "Tito" Ayala·Andre Baker·Andres Ayala·Anthony Musto·Chris Rosario·Christina Ayala·Dennis Bradley·Ernie Newton·Lydia Martinez·Marilyn Moore·Santa Ayala·Scott Hughes