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"DPW DIRECTOR CLARENCE CORBIN FIRED BY PEREZ"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fast Eddie and his puppet Rose have no clue how to apply discipline to city employees. You stooges might want to read the story about the school teacher who was arrested for making a student eat out of the trash. The town is holding off on discipline until her court case is finalized. This is one way to prevent law suits. Oh' that's right the tax payers pay for your incompetence anyway.

April 3, 2009 at 10:45 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The reasons for firing the Director are trumped up charges made to best fit the Chief of Staff's temper tantrum. If they were serious about "procurement violations of the muncipal code", Mark Turcotte would have been fired many months ago for utilizing a 3rd party online bidding service that charges the winners of the contracts $10,000 to use the service (This was known as RFPDepot)however could not actual deliver the service to the bidders because of limited capacity for drawings.As such, bidders would have to obtain the drawings from Merritt Graphics. (Note: easily verified) The $10,000 fee was to be paid whether you used the serviced or not, and The "procurement manager" has threatened contractors who did not use the service, to pay that fee regardless, with disbarment from future bidding. No comes the "nice" part: 50% of that fee was returned to the City without stateing so on the contract documents. One would question the "kick back" issues on the $5000 returned to the City since Mr. Turcotte funded his training and "excursions" using the monies recieved as opposed to general fund deposits. If this was not enough, ask him to produce a written contract between RFP Depot and The City of Hsrtford for those services at that time..guess what?.. There isn't one.
So where is the concern here Mayor and Mr. Hennessey?
Now as with most Mayor Eddie things there is a part of the story that isn't in the Sarah Barr press releases: The mayors office knew that Dick Moffit had been hired, Moffit was the one to hire a subcontract with the Ferguson group, not the City. There is no contractual obligation to have the City dictate who a contractor hires as a subcontractor, (note: that would be known as contract steering, something that the grand jury will explain more to the Mayor's office later this month), and as such, Mr. Hennessy is upset becuase his lobbist was not hired by the contractor Mr.Moffitt. Now, please Mayor and Mr. Hennessey, how much money have you and your lobbist obtained for the City flood control system from the stimulus money? Answer: Zero. How many photo ops have you two had with the congressional delegation have you had since your "troubles": Answer; None. The fact of the matter is that your administration is "persona non- grata" at the present time. You two should realize this, not that anyone really expects that the two of you are man enough to do the right thing and step down, because they know your personality defects too well. In the end, The Director and Assistant Director serve at the pleasure of the Mayor, so for right or wrong, the Mayor has the final say, no matter how poor the decision is. The most anyone could ask for is an equal application of ethics (that is the law? right?), but it is unlikely to happen.
One can only hope that the Grand Jury can flush this administration and it's incompentent political appointees down the drain quickly.

April 5, 2009 at 7:11 AM

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