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The Mayor is the chief executive of Bridgeport, Connecticut who is directly elected for a four-year term. They have the power to issue executive orders, declare emergencies, submit a yearly budget to the city council and makes appointments to city government offices. As of July 2012, the Mayor of Bridgeport earns an annual salary of $132,459. [1]
Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut [7] and the fifth-most populous city in New England, with a population of 148,654 in 2020. [3] Located in eastern Fairfield County at the mouth of the Pequonnock River on Long Island Sound, it is a port city 60 miles (97 km) from Manhattan and 40 miles (64 km) from The Bronx.
List of mayors of Bridgeport, Connecticut This page was last edited on 2 August 2013, at 13:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
In April 1972, community members in Bridgeport sued members of BPD, along with other city officials, over a charge of police brutality during police action spurred by a rent strike in May 1971. [5] In 2019, Rebeca Garcia was approved by the City Council as the city’s first female Hispanic assistant police chief. The very next day she was sued.
He became the mayor of Bridgeport in 2003, after the previous mayor, Joseph P. Ganim, was sentenced to nine years in a federal prison for corruption charges. As mayor, Fabrizi was a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition , [ 1 ] an organization formed in 2006 and co-chaired by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston mayor ...
The Bridgeport Fire Department were notable first responders at the L'Ambiance Plaza collapse, on April 23, 1987. One of the worst disasters in Connecticut history, a 16-story residential building under construction at the corner of Washington Ave. and Coleman St., completely collapsed, killing 28 construction workers. [3] [4]
Stamford-Bridgeport-Norwalk is a metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Connecticut.The area is located in Southwestern Connecticut. [2] In its most conservative form, the area consists of the City of Bridgeport and five surrounding towns—Easton, Fairfield, Monroe, Stratford, and Trumbull.
Joseph Peter Ganim (born October 21, 1959) is an American Democratic politician and former attorney who is the mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut.He was elected mayor of the city six times, serving from 1991 to 2003, when he resigned after being convicted on federal felony corruption charges.