The John Gomes for mayor campaign on Tuesday issued this position piece centered on a “Good Government Contract that outlines ideas that will help end the current dysfunctional policies and scandal that plague City Hall.”
From Gomes campaign:
“Honesty, integrity, and transparency begins at the top. In order to create thoughtful oversight and achieve governance the people can trust, a change in leadership is needed. The top priorities of a John Gomes Administration include cultivating a culture of efficiency, providing sound fiscal management, and ensuring transparency is of the utmost importance in all management decisions. This is my contract with you, the people of Bridgeport.
“To promote a Culture of Efficiency & Transparency, and Sound Fiscal Management Practices, the following summary of policies are proposed:
1. Conduct a Forensic Audit with a credible independent agency in order to create a path for true financial stability and solvency.
2. Crafting a Real Budget that Accurately Reflects Expenses and Revenues. Eliminating wasteful spending, removing “ghost” and “no show” positions will be the new standard.
3. Restoring trust in the Personnel Department that has been rocked by scandal, by hiring based on job qualifications and following civil service rules and testing.
4. Examine the effects of ‘one-time’ revenue gimmicks on the city budget such as the use of ARPA funds for the ‘pending Sikorsky airport sale‘ and other projects.
4. Integrate the Chief Administrative Office and the Mayor’s Office to work in collaboration to ensure that we are doing the best we can for the residents of Bridgeport.
5. Comply with state transparency laws by ending the stonewalling of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests that are backlogged in the City Attorney’s Office by directing the relevant department heads to complete requests and hold them accountable.Gomes concluded, “Investment within and outside the city will not take place until we get our house in order. The restoration of trust in Bridgeport Government is vital to the future growth of our city.”
Candidate Gomes,
Thank you for posting a “On Good Government Contract” a portion of which OIB has posted in an article that raises 9 “thumbs up” at this moment but no other comments. People read and respond positively but without comments, how can you tell whether you dug deep enough and hit paydirt?
You conclude that “the restoration of trust in Bridgeport Government is vital to the future growth of our city” and that may work for you because you have a better idea of what you know and how you will go about pursuing it, assuming that this will restore trust. I agree with famed Indian leader, chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe when he stated, “It doesn’t require many words to speak the truth”. Perhaps a few added words might help lift the veil enough for folks to see the deeper truths you see as harmful currently and that you will pledge to change? Time will tell.
Christ people, does anybody actually reading some of this shit before they write it?
#5 “Integrate the Chief Administrative Office and the Mayor’s Office to work in collaboration to ensure that we are doing the best we can for the residents of Bridgeport,”
Have team Gomes forgotten John supported G2 in his reelection, and comeback bid, and for his SUPPORT, TRUST, AND LOYALTY he was given the chief administrative office position and became G2’s hatchet man
who stayed on for 7 years?
Where does this fall into #6 “Transparency” and #3 Restoring trust in the Personnel Department that has been rocked by scandal?
#4 Examine the effects of ‘one-time’ revenue gimmicks on the city budget such as the use of ARPA funds for the ‘pending Sikorsky airport sale’ and other projects, and #1 conduct a forensic Audit.
You don’t need an audit to know that the airport lost 500,000 annually, for like, forever.
Team Gomes (Ricci) should know that. 🙂
In case you forgot. It might be a bit confusing with Juan Cortez Ganim, with his newfound hair line and facial hair. 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3HBtzS_E1I&list=PLLsjr_hqBHTISQ-j0iD0sCyK3ixS2AoHn&index=4n
Though I am still with Jeff on that.
To be fair #2 Crafting a Real Budget that Accurately Reflects Expenses and Revenues. Eliminating wasteful spending, and removing “ghost” and “no-show” positions will be the new standard. There are just too many Patronage, unqualified easy jobs being handed out 🙂 Good Job, team Gomes. 🤣 thumbs up 👍 SMH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEJswfDbXyw