Three months ago Mayor Joe Ganim appointed Rebeca Garcia as the first female to lead the Police Department after AJ Perez resigned following his federal
Read more
Category: City Council
Pereira To Issue Report Card On City Council Attendance And More
Monday’s virtual City Council meeting could turn into the Monday Night Fights when Maria Pereira, stripped of committee assignments by Council President Aidee Nieves for actions
Read more
City Council President Nieves Seeks Public Safety Solutions
News release from City Council President Aidee Nieves: City Council President Aidee Nieves announces today the formation of a multi-stakeholder, working team to identify public
Read more
Civic Duty–City Seeks Residents To Fill Vacancies On Boards And Commissions
How about some power for no pay? That’s the deal when city residents sign up to serve on boards and commissions. The Mayor’s Office kicked
Read more
Activists Demand Defunding Of Police At Protest Outside City Council President’s Home
Defunding police. What does that actually mean? Replace cops with social workers? It’s a mantra often shouted by so-called police reformers with little specificity to
Read more
City Council Members Briefed On Downtown Development
What’s going on with Downtown development? CT Post reporter Brian Lockhart provides an update including John Guedes’ 92-unit apartment complex at Congress and Main Streets
Read more
Years Later, Police Excessive Force Settlements From Colorado Avenue Party Raid Reach Closure
From Dan Tepfer, CT Post: The city council was expected Monday night to vote on a $125,000 settlement for a local man who claimed in
Read more
Mayoral Appointee Salaries Debated By City Council
The City Council Monday night will take up the Ordinance Committee report “re: Resolution for the City Attorney to draft language to amend Municipal Code Ordinance,
Read more