http://www.nhcan.org Accountability,Transparency & Financial Sustainability In New Haven Government Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:39:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.nhcan.org/archives/347 http://www.nhcan.org/archives/347#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:45:03 +0000 jeffrey.kerekes http://www.nhcan.org/?p=347 The New Haven Register reports “New York City school reformer Garth Harries [to be appointed] to the new post of Assistant Superintendent for Portfolio and Performance Management”. From the article, it seems like this would be a great addition to the educational reform needed in New Haven. I wish this person success. To complement the City Administration, this new trend of hiring experts to run the city is an encouraging development – especially if we can truly leave behind this “mom and pop”/”friends and family” style politics and cronyism. We can only hope that bringing in this new person from the outside does not meet with the same resistance/interference from politicos in the City Administration (and BOE) that are notorious for needing to control everything. This “business as usual” B.S. has already interfered with at least two outside experts hired by the city – the police chief and Michele Whelley from the new EDC. I hope Mr. Harries brings some antacids with him.

]]> http://www.nhcan.org/archives/347/feed 0 http://www.nhcan.org/archives/308 http://www.nhcan.org/archives/308#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:49:13 +0000 jeffrey.kerekes http://www.nhcan.org/?p=308 Check out the New Haven Register Article on municipal employees. Be sure to check out the graphic at the top of the page that lists the top ten BOE employees and the top ten City Employees.

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