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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]
In 2012, the maximum annual salary for police officers was $168,374. [citation needed] In 2020, Connecticut Post sent a Freedom Of Information Request to Bridgeport.It was discovered former police Chief Armando Perez earned $461,061 in 2019. 61 out of the 100 highest earners in Bridgeport were police officers in 2019.
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]
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 1988, the city experienced a $24.4 million budget deficit, and Bucci proposed an 18-19% tax increase in an attempt to help the city with its financial straits. [ 14 ] In 1988, the City of Bridgeport agreed to let the State of Connecticut monitor city finances in exchange for a " bailout " of $58.3 million in state-backed bonds for ...