Saturday, February 25, 2012

New Britain Common Council Members Apprised of the Surplus Budget Left by the Prior Administration.

Former Alderman Mark Bernacki addressed the Common Council during the council's public participation referring to the budget left by the prior administration of having a "surplus."

We asked Mayor Stewart some two years ago, to come up with a cut in the budget, which has several hundred thousands of line items, and we came up with a two and one half million dollars of reductions with the" workforce reduction". He continued by citing the mayor was up to this challenge and we not only cut two and one half million dollars but ended with a "two and half million dollars budget surplus".

"We accomplished this by cutting expenses."

There have been many public comments made that the budget that was left by the prior council was enormous when every budget was approved by the council membership { Under Democratic control) that those comments were disingenuous at the least.

in another issue regarding the Broad street raids, even I don't agree with the mayor on many things, but he is our mayor and he should have been alerted of this action by the state agency. In the past, the council membership have always been alerted to these actions by the state beforehand, so the mayor should have been contacted.

According to the newspapers accounts the police chief stated that he had been contacted by the state and they had informed him that they were just doing a walk through but instead they came through with a swat team," Board Street Merchants were Targeted." There should be an investigation as to why the mayor wasn't contacted? And why wasn't the council apprised also? I think this investigation should be made since thousands of dollars of inventory was scooped up just because they had polish labels on the items.

I buy print paper would that means if I purchase this stock from a polish supplier they could just come in and take my inventory of paper because of polish labeling? Remember these sales were being done in plain view to everyone and the state came and took thousands of dollars of inventory away even after state collected the sales taxes on this inventory.

The council should investigate this issue while remembering the council designated Broad Street as "Little Poland." The polish people do shop there and buy items that have polish labels because they can read what it is. These merchants should made whole for the losses they sustained by these raids. Recall the CVS issue with the state alerted them with a warning.

Yes, "Little Poland was targeted by the state."

The Mayor should always be advised by the state on their plans of entering New Britain establishments.

Much, To Mr. Bernacki's credit he is supporting our mayor to be notified by the state in the future, even though he opposes his typical management style, as our mayor.

fs.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Clearly the Democrats don't give a crap about these people because they are white, they own businesses and they pay taxes. Yes, they pay taxes.
If these were a bunch of welfare bums who happened to be minorities from one of the groups Democrats actually care about, never worked a day in their lives and never once paid a dime in taxes, the liberals would surely be coming unglued, but let the state victimize those so-called evil rich white business owners, and no one in power seems to care. Not even Danny Boy has so much as commented on this issue.

Anonymous said...

If someone wants to open a auto repair/used car dealership, they must go through the ZBA, etc. and are given the stipulations as to ordinances and state laws governing those operations. (Of course, even this practice doesn't prevent them from skirting the laws because of lazy city inspectors).

In the case of ethnic grocery stores or other, what are the preconditions to them opening a business? Same kind of treatment should apply to all.

Polish businesses on Broad St. were ripped off!

Lou Salvio said...

Frank:

Your post is much more informative than the anemic report by the Herald reporter and also what appears in the NB City Journal. Thank you to you and Mrak Bernacki.

Anonymous said...

Thanks Lucian, you screwed this city up by throwing the election to Tim O'Brien.

Anonymous said...

Headline in today's Courant:

"Polish Immigrant Found His Place In U.S."

That is only because he wasn't foolish enough to run a Polish themed business in New Britain where Danny Boy would dispatch his storm troopers to force their way into his business and do what amounts to stealing thousands of dollars in private property all because these store owners failed to belong to a minority group that liberals support.

Serves them right for having the nerve to be white, not being welfare bums, and actually working for a living. All reasons for liberals to despise their very existence on this earth.

Anonymous said...

Lucien is as a big an election spoiler as Bozek was. 2 peas in a pod.

Anonymous said...

State inspectors are smart enough not to notify Lib Dems of anything they want kept secret, unless they're prepared to purchase their silence.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like someone may think that Sherwood would call a press conference to announce the upcoming inspections?

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