Tesei wants to end town-vehicle policy
Calling it a costly and unnecessary perk, First Selectman Peter Tesei wants to put an end to furnishing municipal department heads with town-owned vehicles, many of whom use them to drive home at the end of the work day.
A number of department heads live out of town, with some commuting from as far away as Milford and Ridgefield. The town pays for their gas.
Tesei said he would rather that senior managers drive their personal vehicles to work and use the municipal motorpool for town business....
... The cost-saving initiative follows several other reforms ordered by Tesei to guard against the misuse of municipal cars and trucks, including the requirement that all vehicles bear the town seal. A list of the 300 vehicles in the municipal fleet was also posted on the town's Web site for the public to see....
... The new policy would not apply to police and fire brass, who have about eight cars assigned between them.
Parks Director Joseph Siciliano, who is assigned a town vehicle and lives in Norwalk, said there are some special circumstances where the assignment of a town vehicle is appropriate. "I think that there's an additional work requirement outside the normal work day, whether it's for meetings, or emergency call-out or seven-day operations, that should be considered when compensation packages are being made," Siciliano said.
Town officials said there have been instances when employees who are not issued cars as part of their jobs have driven town-owned cars home, however.
Elizabeth Linck, the town's fleet director, said it was quite possible that unauthorized employees were driving municipal vehicles home.....
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Calling it a costly and unnecessary perk, First Selectman Peter Tesei wants to put an end to furnishing municipal department heads with town-owned vehicles, many of whom use them to drive home at the end of the work day.
A number of department heads live out of town, with some commuting from as far away as Milford and Ridgefield. The town pays for their gas.
Tesei said he would rather that senior managers drive their personal vehicles to work and use the municipal motorpool for town business....
... The cost-saving initiative follows several other reforms ordered by Tesei to guard against the misuse of municipal cars and trucks, including the requirement that all vehicles bear the town seal. A list of the 300 vehicles in the municipal fleet was also posted on the town's Web site for the public to see....
... The new policy would not apply to police and fire brass, who have about eight cars assigned between them.
Parks Director Joseph Siciliano, who is assigned a town vehicle and lives in Norwalk, said there are some special circumstances where the assignment of a town vehicle is appropriate. "I think that there's an additional work requirement outside the normal work day, whether it's for meetings, or emergency call-out or seven-day operations, that should be considered when compensation packages are being made," Siciliano said.
Town officials said there have been instances when employees who are not issued cars as part of their jobs have driven town-owned cars home, however.
Elizabeth Linck, the town's fleet director, said it was quite possible that unauthorized employees were driving municipal vehicles home.....
More Local News From The Greenwich Time
Children fill up their Easter baskets at Lions Club event
When the starting horn went off, Tami Oppenheimer, 32, picked up two-year-old Tyler and ran to the other side of a field filled with eggs.
Seniors weigh costs of reverse mortgages
Dee Lewis has refinanced her Glenville home five or six times so she would have enough money to pay her property taxes.
Bagpipes abound at St. Patrick's Day parade
March is high season for Gregor MacIntyre, pipe major of the Greenwich Pipe Band.
USA Boxing may step into the ring in Stamford
USA Boxing, which has governed Olympic-style pugilism since 1888, is looking at Connecticut, especially Stamford, as the location for an East Coast office.
=============================================
Please send comments to
GreenwichRoundup@gmail.com
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
- George Orwell,
Preface to Animal Farm (1946)
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