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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]
Towns in Connecticut are allowed to adopt a city form of government without the need to re-incorporate as an inner-city. Connecticut state law also makes no distinction between a consolidated town/city and a regular town. Bolded city names indicate the state's largest cities, with the most populated being Bridgeport.
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.
A representative town meeting, also called "limited town meeting", is a form of municipal legislature particularly common in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and permitted in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Representative town meetings function largely the same as open town meetings, except that not all registered voters can participate or vote ...
After graduating from college, Finch moved back to Bridgeport where he became a city council member for nine and a half years. While on the city council, Finch developed a record of cutting taxes, aimed to create new jobs, and was involved in public safety by voting to add more police officers to the city's force and promoting programs such as ...
Council of governments (COG) Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) [4] 973,959 Capitol Region (Same) 318,004 CT Metropolitan Greater Bridgeport and Valley MPO 175,685 Lower CT River Valley (Same) 448,738 Naugatuck Valley Central Naugatuck MPO 96,617 Northeast CT (Same/Rural Planning Region) 115,247 Northwest Hills (Same/Rural Planning Region ...
OPM staff attended meetings in Bristol, Burlington and Plymouth, and subsequently granted each of the appeals. In 2019 the state recommended to the United States Census Bureau that the nine Councils of Governments replace eight legacy counties in Connecticut for statistical purposes. [ 4 ]
The Greater Bridgeport Planning Region is a planning region and county-equivalent in Connecticut. It is served by the coterminous Connecticut Metropolitan Council of Governments ( MetroCOG ). In 2022, planning regions were approved to replace Connecticut's counties as county-equivalents for statistical purposes, with full implementation ...