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Thursday, November 2, 2017

HARTFORD CHIEF AUDITOR CALLING IT QUITS

Hartford's Chief Auditor H. Patrick Campbell is calling it quits.  Campbell apparently submitted his resignation yesterday, effective November 17th. Campbell is reportedly leaving for a position with the State of Connecticut.

From the City of Hartford website:

H. Patrick Campbell graduated with B.A. degree in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting from St. Michael’s College outside of Burlington, Vermont. He earned a Masters of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Finance from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Patrick is a Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Fraud Examiner and passed the National Association of Securities Dealers Series 7 Exam. He is a member of the Association of Local Government Auditors, the National and Southern New England chapters of the Institute of Internal Auditors and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Patrick started his career at the former Combustion Engineering, Inc. (CE) headquarted in Stamford, CT, in the Financial Staff Training Program spending a year in various scheduled assignments in accounting, auditing, systems, programming and corporate budgeting functions. After successfully completing the program he then took a full time position with the Internal Audit Department of the CE Power Systems Group in Windsor, CT where he progressed from a staff auditor to senior auditor while conducting financial, operational and system audits in a manufacturing environment.

Patrick then joined the Internal Audit Department of the CIGNA Corporation in Bloomfield, CT as a Senior Auditor. He progressed from a Senior Auditor to Director through assuming additional responsibilities while executing audits of CIGNA’s life insurance, health insurance, pension and investment business units and corporate functions. Upon promotion to the position of Director, Patrick took responsibility for directing all audit related activities for the CIGNA pension, reinsurance and individual insurance lines of business. In March 1995, Patrick was hired as, and currently holds the position of, Chief Auditor for the City of Hartford.

Deputy City Auditor Craig Trujillo is expected to be named interim Chief Auditor.

Campbell's resignation is just one of many high level positions that have left the Bronin Administration over the past year, although the Chief Auditor is an autonomous position and does not answer to the Mayor or Council.

Monday, October 30, 2017

GRAND JURY OR FISHING EXPEDITION?

I know there may be more coming, but this doesn't seem like the "smoking gun" many were hoping for. This morning's indictments by the Grand Jury investigating President Trump's alleged ties to Russia seem pretty lame, and in fact they don't even mention Trump once and the allegations pre-date Trump's entrance into the Presidential Campaign

Like I said originally, there may more to come, but the questions regarding collusion with Russia need to be answered, one way or the other. These indictments could very well be a tool to get Manafort to cooperate and apply the leverage Mueller needs  to get that cooperation.

Time will tell

Thursday, October 26, 2017

REVIEW OF JUDGE'S ORDER SHOULD INCLUDE A MENTAL COMPETENCY HEARING.....OF THE JUDGE

Yesterday I posted about the escapades of Hartford Superior Court Judge Omar Williams and his Court Order  to return a stolen historical plaque from the Samuel Colt monument in Colt's Park to the thief who stole it off of the statue.

Apparently after the scrutiny of his order, the Honorable Judge Omar Williams has now scheduled another hearing for November 15, 2017 to reconsider or reverse his order. I am not sure why the order can't just be vacated, but I guess we will have to leave that up to the discretion of the good judge.

But in an effort for proper use of Judicial time, maybe Judge Williams could also schedule a Mental Competency hearing for himself and possibly explain how he ever thought this ruling made any sense in the first place. I think that would be a fair question for the Court to answer.

Here is the order below, signed by the  Honorable Judge Williams on September 15, 2017 ordering the return of the property to the thief, Rafael Sanchez



HFD RECRUIT GRADUATION TOMORROW

A  proud moment for the Hartford Fire Department as they continue to rebuild under the efforts of Chief Reginald Freeman. Congratulations to the Probationary Firefighters who will graduate tomorrow. Please show your support to the men and women of the Hartford Fire Department as the newest members embark on honorable careers serving the people of Hartford. Stay safe to all , and best of luck in your careers.

HARTFORD POLICE UNION RESPONDS TO NEGOTIATION EDITORIAL

I think the letter below speaks for itself. Hartford's Police Officers deserve a contract, bottom line.

HPU Op-ed A by  on Scribd

HARTFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS SCRAMBLING TO FIX A BROKEN SYSTEM

Subsequent to my posting last week about failings in the Hartford School System on dealing with alleged incidents of abuse, the Hartford Schools have once again changed their protocols.I first wrote last week about an incident that appeared to have been handle poorly by the Principal at Mary Hooker School in Hartford.You can read that posting here  http://wethepeoplehartford.blogspot.com/2017/10/why-cant-hartford-board-of-education.html

Now today, the Hartford Schools held an emergency meeting with staff to introduce new protocols for dealing with "employee misconduct", specifically allegations of child abuse and neglect an actually provided a checklist that includes everything from notifying the allegedly abused child's parents to  actually calling the Hartford Police and giving employees the number to call.

I have to wonder why it took another incident involving alleged abuse of a child and a blog posting for the Hartford Superintendent of Schools to finally show some leadership and begin what the Board had promised to do months ago after the  last incident. Furthermore, I have to ask, what are we paying a New York firm $175,000 a year for, who were supposed to be dealing with these issues ?

Well  at least this is a start. Hopefully this time the protocols will be adhered to for the good of the children.

This updated protocol was first reported tonight by Jill Konopka of the NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters.