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"CIRCLING THE WAGONS- MORE ON THE AUDIT REPORT YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO SEE"

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Anonymous RB said...

What A City! Hartford NEVER misses a chance to shoot itself in the foot!

September 24, 2013 at 10:43 AM

Anonymous Mayor seems oblivious said...

City Hall (mayor and staff), stop hiding! Stop spinning. PLEASE!!You are failing miserably. Put everything out there. Don’t hide the bad things; it only makes us look worse. People make mistakes, the City has been mismanaged for decades, and now, in this day of mass electronic media and social sharing, it is all coming to light. Social media and FOI make it impossible to hide dark little secrets. YOU ARE LOSING THE SOCIAL MEDIA PR BATTLE. It's so bad, that it has flooded over to regular media. Unfortunately, Mayor Segarra is at the helm when the walls of secrecy are crumbling down. Time to reformulate. Management in this city has sucked for so long, and now it’s all coming out. It's not your fault Pedro (you inherited it) but when your staff tries to hide it, it sure looks like your fault. WAKE UP PLEASE!

September 24, 2013 at 11:14 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually, American Golf was also regularly in default of their lease and not making the improvements they promised at Keney @ Goody. There were many tools in this contract for the city to hold the firm accountable for improving the courses apparently nobody noticed or cared.

September 24, 2013 at 2:19 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where did they find this city attorney, some mail order law school - and Pedro can't pawn that one off on his predecessor.

Ummm...Mr Van Norden, perhaps you didn't notice, but Keney and Goodwin parks and their golf courses ARE city assets regardless of who is managing them. Are you going to tell the City's Independent Auditors who must review and opine on the golf course assets and financial statements in the City's CAFR that they have to exercise caution and not to express critical findings?

September 24, 2013 at 4:27 PM

Blogger KEVIN BROOKMAN said...

anonymous 2:19pm,

I don't ever remember Keney being in such deplorable condition when American Golf was operating the courses.

September 24, 2013 at 5:05 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I can only view and read the first page and part of the second page of this memo. Can you show a pdf copy instead of scrib?

September 24, 2013 at 7:17 PM

Blogger KEVIN BROOKMAN said...

anonymous 7:17PM

no I have to use scibd to embed PDF documents, blogger doesn't have it built in. Try double clicking on the document title above the report and that should allow you the option to download or print the document

September 24, 2013 at 7:24 PM

Anonymous Mike Lupo said...

Kevin, you are correct. American Golf took these two golf courses and dramatically improved them in a way the city could never do.

Now that MDM Golf Enterprises lease is up, let's see how the city can screw up another bidding process. Hopefully, American Golf will bid, win and put Keney and Goodwin back together again.

Sadly though, Hartford has a terrible record of running things, overseeing people that run things and never seeing that things don't run well at all.

Hartford will never change, City Hall will never change. The Mayor should have demanded all department heads to resign a long time ago and start all over. Corp Counsel's office (among others)should be disbanded and legal services contracted out.

But who is to blame for all this mess? Mayor, Council, department heads? No, the voters continue to elect the same crew of do nothings.

Time for change all around. But let's start with golf course management. Maybe, just maybe that could be successful. Then we move on to the bigger issues.

September 25, 2013 at 12:16 AM

Anonymous Mike Lupo said...

Since when does South Hartford have a mountain range going through it behind Goodwin Golf Course? Check out MDM's website for Goodwin: http://www.goodwinparkgolf.com/

Not too deceiving, huh?

September 25, 2013 at 12:47 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

OMG! Kevin I am so glad someone else has noticed the deplorable conditions of our parks.

I left Hartford in 2001 and moved out of state. Upon my return in 2008, I was mortified at the conditions here. Not only the parks, but the streets as well (i.e. Wethersfield Ave., especially!) And it was a mess long before the MDC started its little project.

I used to love this City and even worked for the city and bought a home here back in 1997 (when all the parks/streets were kept up).

On a positive note, I do live closer to the Front St. area, and I have to admit it's a pleasure for me and my neighbors to stroll around that area.

Now that I have returned, I cannot wait to finalize some personal matters and get the hell out!!!

September 25, 2013 at 3:17 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You would never see West Hartfords Rockledge in that kind of Condition !!! Because West Hartford hires the right people for the Job !!
Hartford always broke(recieves more $$ than most towns) and Incompetent.

September 30, 2013 at 3:48 PM

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