STAMFORD — A member of the Stamford Board of Representatives said he was “disgusted” by the city’s Board of Finance’s decision to delay a potential increase in budgeted officers for the city’s police department.
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Arrow Financial Strengthens Board with Four Industry Veterans, Adding Banking and Finance Expertise
James M. Dawsey, President of MLB Construction Services, LLC, will bring financial and operational expertise to the Arrow board, drawing from more than 45 years of experience in construction management and operations oversight. He has extensive expertise in reviewing financial statements, cost control and profit-and-loss oversight for his five companies. His proven ability to ensure financial strength and operational efficiency will provide valuable insight to the board. He currently serves on the board of directors of Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Company, Saratoga National Bank and Trust Company, Upstate Agency, LLC, Local Union 157 and the Eastern Contractors Association.
Dr. Kristine D. Duffy, President of SUNY Adirondack, has more than 35 years of
Philip Morris, CEO of Proctors Collaborative, brings extensive expertise in cultural facilities and development to the board, with nearly 50 years of experience renovating more than 20 buildings for cultural purposes and raising more than
Daniel J. White, a Certified Public Accountant, brings a wealth of experience to the board, having served as the former Office Managing Partner for KPMG LLP’s
“We are thrilled to welcome Jim, Kris, Philip and Dan to the Arrow Financial Corporation Board of Directors,” said David S. DeMarco, President and CEO of Arrow Financial Corporation. “Their diverse backgrounds and expertise will greatly enhance our board’s capabilities. We are confident their leadership and insights will help guide our organization as we continue to grow, innovate and serve our community with excellence.”
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WASHINGTON — The government shutdown is creating a lot of uncertainty and disruption for Alaska Native communities, and for tribal organizations that administer federal programs.
These include SNAP, for food assistance, and the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which subsidizes energy bills.
Ben Mallott, president of the Alaska Federation of Natives, said the prospect that both of those programs would run out of money, just as winter begins, puts some Alaskans in a life-threatening bind.
“Without LIHEAP, without SNAP, our communities, our tribal citizens will have to decide between fuel and food,” he testified to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee Wednesday.
During the pandemic, the Federal Subsistence Board allowed emergency hunting to improve food security. Now, with the government shutdown, Mallott said the Subsistence Board can’t even meet to consider it.
Since the second Trump administration began, advocates for Native American and Alaska Native people have stressed that programs that help them aren’t D.E.I. initiatives but the result of promises, treaties and laws. Now, between the administration’s cuts to government services and the shutdown, they say the government is dodging its responsibilities.
Hearing witnesses said tribal Head Start programs will run low on money if the shutdown extends into November, and that many agency experts tribes normally turn to have lost their jobs.
Pete Upton testified about the Trump administration’s plan to abolish a fund at the Treasury Department called the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. Upton runs the Native CDFI Network, whose Alaska members include the Cook Inlet Lending Center. He said tribal communities are often in banking deserts.
“Native CDFIs are typically the only financial institutions serving these communities, providing access to capital, credit and financial education where no alternative exists,” he said.
Early in the shutdown, the Treasury Department fired the entire staff of the CDFI Fund. With no one at the federal office to certify the CDFIs, Upton said it’s hard for the community finance organizations to attract private-sector and philanthropic investment.
Certification is “a stamp for investors to say that ‘you are investable,’” Upton said. With it, “we bring in private capital at a rate of eight to one.”
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, chair of the Indian Affairs Committee, said tribes face enormous uncertainty as the stalemate in Congress nears the one-month mark.
“We can’t figure out the path forward right now on our spending bills, although I am a little bit more optimistic on that today,” she said.
She didn’t elaborate but said earlier this week that senators are engaged in productive talks.
Police cruisers parked in the Stamford Police Department parking lot photographed on August 7, 2024.
“I’m angry,” said Sean Boeger, D-15, during the Board of Representatives’ Fiscal Committee meeting Monday.
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Boeger is also a sergeant in the Stamford Police Department. The increase, which was on the committee’s agenda, would have created 13 more officer positions in the department. A grant would help pay for six of the 13 new positions.
It would’ve brought the total number of officers in the patrol division from 217 to 230, resulting in a 300-person force when all other ranks are considered. In the early 2000s, the department had 314 budgeted sworn officers, according to Chief of Police Timothy Shaw.
Lou DeRubeis, Stamford’s director of public safety, health and welfare, said the proposed increase was the first “in quite a number of years.”
The Board of Finance, however, during its Oct. 9 meeting, voted to hold the increase and asked the police department to provide more information, such as where the officers would be used and the total cost of hiring them outside of wages, such as health insurance and overtime.
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Boeger said during Monday’s fiscal committee meeting that he believed there were four officers assigned to traffic enforcement because “patrol demand is so high.” He said the department should be able to double the number of officers for traffic enforcement, which he said was “the top gripe of our citizenry.”
He also said the department was “lucky if we could cover the high schools when it’s busy.”
“If we want to be responsible and we want to have the nice things that a nice city like Stamford should have…we have to do something about this,” Boeger said.
Boeger said the department had opened up testing for new positions and that the department can’t send people to police academies, whether the city’s own or others, until the new positions are approved.
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“We’re gambling with open positions based on academy availability,” Boeger said.
Amiel Goldberg, D-13, said he wanted members of the committee to reach out to the Board of Finance to “let them know how deeply disappointed and frustrated our committee is.”
There had been an attempt to add the 13 police officer positions during the most recent budget process, but the Board of Finance cut the funding for those jobs.
At that time, members of the board said to come back with the request once the department filled out the rest of their 287 budgeted officer positions. The department will reach that goal by December, Bridget Fox, chief of staff of the mayor’s office, said during the Oct. 9 meeting.
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Shaw, in an interview before the fiscal committee meeting, said getting more people for the department would mean less people have to work overtime and because of that, less people would burn out and leave the force. Half the budgeted overtime, he said, is for the patrol division.
During the Oct. 9 meeting, the chief said the 13-person increase could result in a $500,000 reduction in overtime costs.
Laura Burwick, a member of the Board of Finance, said during the Oct. 9 meeting the request of $743,941 for the new positions was “a huge additional expense to the budget” and that she wanted to “see a little bit of the analysis that went into this.”
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Geoff Alswanger, a member of the finance board, said during that meeting that there have been “many sessions” where the board had “angst at the management” of the city’s pension funds and that the board “can’t ignore that as part of this equation.”
Boeger, however, during Monday’s meeting, said the department “has no power or control over that.”
TPG Hotels & Resorts, one of the nation’s premier hospitality management firms, announced today that Brian Bradford has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Hospitality Finance. In this role, Bradford will have direct oversight and accountability for the accounting and finance function across the company’s portfolios and be based out of the national operations headquarters in McKinney, Texas.
Bradford joins TPG Hotels & Resorts from Remington Hospitality, where he served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Accounting, overseeing the accounting and treasury functions for a portfolio of more than 120 hotels. During his tenure, Bradford successfully restructured accounting operations, streamlined processes, and reduced the monthly close cycle by nine days. With extensive experience in financial management, reporting, and technical accounting across multiple industries, he brings to TPG a proven track record of driving operational efficiencies and implementing robust financial systems for large, complex organizations.
Bradford began his career in public accounting with CohnReznick LLP and has since held senior finance and accounting leadership positions with several large organizations including, CIG Logistics, Daseke, and Americold Realty Trust. He holds both a Master of Accounting and Bachelor of Science in Accounting from North Carolina State University.
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