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"A CITY OUT OF CONTROL , ANOTHER UPDATE"

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Anonymous Jeff said...

Rosie is a lost cause.

May 12, 2010 at 12:27 AM

Anonymous peter brush said...

Kevin:
This is off the specific topic, but relates to the general one; i.e. a city out of control. Going back to the mayor's "exceptional service increments" issue from last year. I wonder if council or Rose might be aware of the provision in the constitution that would appear to make such payments illegal. "ARTICLE ELEVENTH. SEC. 2. Neither the general assembly nor any county, city, borough, town or school district shall have power to pay or grant any extra compensation to any public officer, employee, agent or servant, or increase the compensation of any public officer or employee, to take effect during the continuance in office of any person whose salary might be increased thereby, or increase the pay or compensation of any public contractor above the amount specified in the contract."

May 12, 2010 at 10:05 AM

Anonymous Bruce RUbenstein said...

When there is a new Mayor, Rose should be the first to go..and second to go would be almost all of the Mayor's political appointed aides...he has more then Governor Rell.Mayor Mike and Mayor Perry got aong just fine with 5 aides and Perez has close to 30..any wonder why Hartford is in dire financial shape?

May 12, 2010 at 10:14 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

FYI. Most city depts and divisions actually already have org charts. Don't let them tell you otherwise. Those of us who work in city depts have actually participated in drafting the org charts, which are then "massaged" by the administration. I thought you all were interested in making cuts to the budget w/o cutting services. Consolidating like dept and divisions would do so and would actually streamline services.

May 12, 2010 at 10:22 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

If the city lies and says it has no org charts, these are other docs you may want to request: MUNIS payroll reports sorted by dept; human resources transaction reports; all forms A and forms B for each employee/position; all position analysis forms for each budgeted position. If you ask for these documents I suspect they would just as soon as cough up the org charts or "like". If I'm not mistaken I belive Jeff Cohen, while at the Courant, had requested payroll reports. Last year during budget season I believe City Council had asked for a list of all employees, their job title, their salary and their town of residence. I believe Cohen had also posted that document on City Line.

May 12, 2010 at 10:44 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Are you all new here? Patronage has been around since the beginning of time. It's just more blatant in Eddie's case. He got carte blanche to go hog wild with it when he became a "strong" mayor with the charter change. Check out this new job posting in his office that's posted on the Human Resources website (wonder who it was tailor written for and why the individual will not be in Eric Crash Jackson's MHIS dept or in the Dept of Public Works): http://www.hartford.gov/personnel/jobs/BUILDING_AUTOMATION_SYSTEM_MGR_3-18-10.pdf

Do you know what MHIS stands for? No, not Metro Hartford Information Services, but "More of His Idiotic Shenanagins".

May 12, 2010 at 10:45 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, I too heard that the State's Atty looked into Eddie's hiring of his cronies behind political campaign contributions, but couldn't make it stick. Must have been cash contributions, no proof. Showing that his cronies are not the most qualified job applicants is also very subjective because of that lovely caveat regarding "equivalents" that is written into all job postings. Oh well, let's hope the next administration is not as blatant as this one. I think it's Eddie's flagrant audacity that is most infuriating.

May 12, 2010 at 10:53 PM

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