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Category: Civil Service

Meet Eric Amado, Personnel And Labor Relations Director

November 6, 2020 Lennie Grimaldi Analysis and Comment, Civil Service, News and Events12 Comments

Eric Amado is doing double duty these days as Bridgeport’s personnel director and chief of labor relations. He has been a city employee since September

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“Lame-Duck” Appointment Ordinance On City Council Agenda

October 30, 2020 Lennie Grimaldi Analysis and Comment, City Council, Civil Service, News and Events43 Comments

Historically one of the shortest meetings of the year, the City Council will meet Monday on the eve of election day to refer a number

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Newton Urges Merit System Hiring During Lame-Duck Mayoral Period

October 27, 2020 Lennie Grimaldi Analysis and Comment, Civil Service, News and Events53 Comments

Shortly after he was elected mayor in 1933, Socialist Jasper McLevy implemented a campaign promise to limit the spoils system of hiring municipal employees. Basically

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Is It An Employment List?–The Machinations Of Selecting A New Police Chief Swirls With Controversy

September 16, 2020 Lennie Grimaldi Analysis and Comment, Civil Service, News and Events37 Comments

Does the Civil Service Commission and City Attorney’s Office consider the testing results to select a chief in 2018 an active “employment list?” If so,

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UPDATE: City Charter’s Conflicting Language On Police Chief Vacancy Raises Questions

September 15, 2020 Lennie Grimaldi Analysis and Comment, City Council, Civil Service, Law Enforcement, News and Events49 Comments

The city’s national search for a police chief in 2018–now engulfed in a federal imbroglio–produced three finalists from which the mayor appointed a top cop,

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Bucci Presses Case To Reverse Chief Garcia Appointment

May 26, 2020 Lennie Grimaldi City Council, Civil Service, Law Enforcement, News and Events4 Comments

From Dan Tepfer, CT Post: The lawyer for four top city police officials, seeking to overturn the appointment of Rebeca Garcia as assistant police chief, said

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As Feds Probe Perez For Insider Help With Top Cop Test, City Defends Search Procedures

March 3, 2020 Lennie Grimaldi Analysis and Comment, Civil Service, Law Enforcement, News and Events14 Comments

Was the November 2018 selection of chief of police compromised because AJ Perez had an unfair testing advantage over other candidates? That is in part

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Paging Canned Assistant Chief James Nardozzi–Who Needs Gold, Frankincense And Myrrh When Cash Is King?

December 21, 2019 Lennie Grimaldi Analysis and Comment, City Council, Civil Service, Law Enforcement, News and Events16 Comments

New Assistant Chief Rebeca Garcia is now on board with a six-figure salary while the last person to occupy the rank James Nardozzi is on

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