The full Bridgeport City Council Monday night, following the lead of its budget committee, cut back Mayor Bill Finch’s budget proposal in what the mayor and council leadership describe as a compromise. Residents will pay more, but not as much as originally presented. The budget process isn’t about how it starts, it’s all about how [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Pat Fardy'
Council Votes On The Budget–The Meaning Of Declaring Victory
May 7th, 2012 · 12 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council, City Politics, Education, News and Events
Tags: Andy Fardy·Bill Finch·John Marshall Lee·Pat Fardy·Paul Vallas
Vallas At Budget Hearing Urges $7 Million More For Schools–Others Demand Cuts
April 27th, 2012 · 15 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council, Education
Facing a relatively tame audience of education advocates seeking more school aid and taxpayers exhorting budget cuts, the City Council’s Budget and Appropriations Committee Thursday night heard from about one dozen speakers addressing Mayor Bill Finch’s proposed spending plan that calls for a 2.7 mil increase to finance $7 million more in additional school spending and [...]
Tags: Andy Fardy·Bill Finch·Jacqueline Kelleher·John Gomes·John Marshall Lee·Leticia Colon·Lydia Martinez·Mark Trojanowski·Michelle Lyons·Pat Fardy·Paul Vallas·Sacred Heart University·Tom Sherwood
Budget Watchdogs Rally Attendance At North End Hearing
April 15th, 2012 · 8 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council, News and Events
Mayor Bill Finch is scheduled to host his next public budget presentation Thursday, 6 p.m. at the North End Library Branch, 3455 Madison Avenue. City residents John Marshall Lee, Andy Fardy and his wife Pat Fardy are urging residents to attend. Last Wednesday in Black Rock the mayor addressed a packed crowd of residents concerned [...]
John Gomes Steps Up For Foster
September 20th, 2011 · 18 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics
Democratic mayoral candidate Mary-Jane Foster’s HQ on Main Street in the North End early Monday evening was jammed with workers. There was ex-Foster opponent, now supporter, John Gomes banging phones, State Senator Ed Gomes reviewing undecided voters from his district, Steve Auerbach, that one-man riot squad campaign worker reloading his car with Foster lawn signs, Andy Fardy (town [...]
Tags: Andy Fardy·Bill Finch·Ed Gomes·John Gomes·Mary-Jane Foster·Pat Fardy
The Power Of Female Voters
June 27th, 2011 · 2 Comments · City Politics, News and Events
In Bridgeport elections women generally make up more than 55 percent of the turnout. From Democratic mayoral candidate Mary-Jane Foster: Please join Stephanie Barnes, Gail Diaz, Cassandra Edmonds, Pat Fardy, Maxine Greenberg, Nancy Hadley, Ann Owens, Gabrielle Parisi, Diana Washington for the Official Launch of Women for Mary-Jane Foster for Mayor of Bridgeport, Tuesday, June [...]
Andy Fardy Leaves Democratic Party
September 6th, 2012 · 6 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, News and Events
Long-time Democratic political activist Andy Fardy, a frequent contributor to OIB, has registered as an unaffiliated voter after 48 years as a registered Democrat. Wednesday afternoon both Fardy, who served for many years as a member of the Democratic Town Committee, and his wife Pat, a former member of the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission, [...]
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Tags: Andy Fardy·Bill Finch·Ed Gomes·Pat Fardy