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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 ...
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 ...
Bill Finch (born March 4, 1956) is an American retired politician who served as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut [1] for eight years after previously serving in the Connecticut Senate for seven years. [2] As mayor, he was known for his strong environmentally friendly policies [3] and his tax reform efforts, both of which received local and ...
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.
The 2015 Democratic Party primary for Bridgeport, Connecticut was held on September 16, and was held with the intention of choosing the party's candidate for mayor. The primary enjoyed unusually extensive coverage due to the participation of Joseph P. Ganim, a former mayor of the city and convicted felon.
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.