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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

SEGARRA BUDGET HOLE JUST GOT BIGGER

With roughly 3 months left in Hartford's fiscal year, a deal that was cut last year by the Segarra Administration to balance Hartford' s budget appears to have fallen through. The plan was to sell several Hartford parking assets to Hartford's pension fund and eventually the State of Connecticut.

According to sources at Hartford City Hall, a scheduled closing on the sale of the Church Street  Parking Garage,  between the City and the State apparently fell through last week The end result is the apparent loss of 13.4 million dollars in revenue that Segarra was counting on to balance his budget . One source speaking on the condition of anonymity, was doubtful that the closing would be rescheduled anytime soon, if at all.

Several discrepancies apparently came up prior to the closing that caused the State of Connecticut to back out of the deal .

It is unknown how the City will balance the budget without the input of the funds from the sale .

Late this afternoon Segarra was seen putting a "For Sale " sign up in front of Hartford City Hall. His scheduler and communications staff were all assisting him

Monday, March 30, 2015

THE TONY TERZI SHOW SATURDAY

The recording below is my hour and a half on Saturday's Tony Terzi show, "Terzi Talk, on WDRC Radio Saturday. It was very interesting and the time went by very quick. I was actually asked to stay beyond the hour I was scheduled and I enjoyed answering the callers questions.

Take a listen, just click play

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SEGRRA CAMPAIGN TRIES TO RIGHT THE SINKING SHIP

Sources close to the Segarra campaign are confirming that Segarra is making some changes to try to stabilize his faltering campaign for reelection. Segarra's current Chief of Staff, Meriden resident and Hartford renter Juan Figueroa will be taking a leave of absence to manage Segarra's campaign. Al Ilg will once again be recycled through Hartford City Hall as Segarra's acting Chief of Staff.

Segarra has apparently also realized that he has to do a much more effective job of managing his campaign message.He has hired  former area reporter Shelly Sindland to apparently be his campaigns' Communication's Director.

 It is yet to be seen if the voters of Hartford will make Figueroa's and Segarra's leave of absence permanent.

Saturday, March 28, 2015

OLGA WEIGHS IN

Attorneys for Hartford Democratic Registrar of Voters today prepared a request for an injunction to stop removal  proceedings underway by the Hartford City Council.  Attorneys for Working Families Registrar filed similar paperwork yesterday.


Friday, March 27, 2015

ON THE RADIO

Tomorrow morning March 28th, Saturday I'll be on the Tony Terzi  program on WDRC radio for the 8am hour.  Tony will be taking phone calls on the live program. Fell free to listen in if you have time, I think it will be an interesting conversation.

CAN WE GET A PACKAGE DEAL?

Word was issued from the office of Hartford Fire Chief Carlos Huertas  that he was unable to find any qualified candidates to fill his open Assistant Chief slots from within the HFD. Huertas stated that he would be initiating a nationwide search outside the Department to fill the slots.It seems as a failure on Huertas's part that no one is qualified or was mentored by him to move up, even though there appears to be several qualified people that should be developed to move up from within

Maybe in an effort to be fiscally responsible , we could find a search company that would give us a package deal. Conduct a search for both the Assistant Chief  and a Chief able to properly develop suitable replacements to move up from within.

Its just an idea but I think we deserve  suitable people to fill in and lead the HFD, and I don't think we need to look outside, we just need someone that is capable to lead and develop what we have already. Too much time has been wasted on the games that have already been played for the last year or so.