According to Bruce Morris’ biography on the State of Connecticut’s web site, he has not graduated from college, he has merely attended College.

State Representative Bruce Morris is serving his first term in the Connecticut General Assembly. He is a graduate of Saint Thomas More Preparatory School and attended the University of Connecticut. Currently, he is the Director of Human Relations for Norwalk Public Schools, and serves on the ministerial staff of Macedonia Church in Norwalk.

Rep. Morris presently serves as Chairperson of the Board of Directors for Norwalk Community Health Center; Chair of Public Services Division of United Way of Norwalk and Wilton; Board member of George Washington Carver Center; Norwalk NAACP; Macedonia AIDS Ministry; and, Cornerstone Community Development Corporation.

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Lo and behold, what a difference a day makes. Well, probably not, I always had a feeling that all members were not drunk on kool-aid over at the Board of Ed. Bruce Kimmel has emerged from the Corda kool-aid eclipse in the Hour today:

“I have not agreed with Dr. Corda’s approach to exclude administration personnel from budget cuts. My view is that we start by assuming the schools are sacrosanct, that they are the option of last resort — and that includes after-school programs,” Kimmel said.

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When House Speaker bragged about how Larry Cafero keeps getting reelected despite bring home the bacon bits, he really wasn’t kidding. Of course its not just Cafero, but Perone, Morris, Boucher, Ryan in the House and Duff in the Senate that come back to Norwalk with the half filled jar of bacon bits with a nice label and press release announcing “bacon”. Our legislators just aren’t getting time at the trough. And oh what a trough it is. The Journal Inquirer reports on the $3 billion bonding proposal put forth by finance panels bonding subcommittee.

Sen. Donald J. DeFronzo, D-New Britain, co-chairman of the finance panel’s bonding subcommittee, said the Democrats’ plan adds funding for key programs, such as affordable housing and libraries. He said it leaves the state “far below” the state’s limit on bonding.

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Now that the politics of the vote are behind us, there’s still much work to be done with the BOE budget. There’s an expediency to the philosophy of funding and then being done with the oversight process. I think last night, some Democrats proved they wanted to be “fund and done” with the BOE budget. Some Democrats did not seem to have that mindset. Tom Vetter again, brought his spreadsheet to the council, with updated numbers. That document should be posted here, and I have sent an email requesting it. Bruce Kimmel also seemed aware that the debate about the operations of the schools needs to be open and not in secret.

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The Cap was not raised and like Radio Free Europe, these are the following special messages:

Goldilocks is a weenie. I repeat Goldilocks is a weenie.

The powerpoint presentation will not be presented due to technical difficulties.

The rain is spain appears in Norwalk’s sewer drains.

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The meeting is set to start at 7 pm. I am here and will covering it.

7:05 and people are still trickling in. The Norwalk-outers are here, as is Carvin Hilliard, Joanne Romano, Doug Hempstead, Rick McQuaid, Nick Kydes. BOE members Tom Vetter, Bruce Kimmel, Roz McCarthy, Tom Vetter, Rob Polley ar here as well. It looks like more people are here than at the previous Council Meeting, but not necessarily from the parents side of the equation. Phyllis Bolden arrived late.

Moccia sets the ground rules, enforcing the 3 minute limit. Public participation.

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Tonight our normally scheduled programming is being replaced by a a very special post from satire.tv

From TV Guide: Party of Five, the Nowalk-outers ask for a very special public therapy session to cope with the impending drastic cuts to the BOE credit card. An unexpected visit from reality (Count D. Votes) leads to responsible spending. First of two parts.

As the Common Council prepares for the annual Spring Fling Festival, Matt Miklave parachutes in to make an emergency theatrical appearance, but there’s tension in the air between him and the rest of the council. Meanwhile, Carvin Hilliard waits to hear news after an interview with Galen Wells; and the town is up in arms when Kevin Poruban uses the entire festival budget to build a hay-bale maze.

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As part of the ongoing coverage of meetings, here’s the paraphrase of the Norwalk Democratic party meeting. As usual, I attempted to capture what was said, as best I could

DTC Meeting:

04/16/07

Roll Call called at 7:43

Agenda Item: Fill vacancy in District C appointed Alex Knopp.

Approval of minutes: Donna King added as attended, voted on unanimous

Treasurers Report: paid postage no other activity voted to accept was unanimous

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Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Don’t worry there will be a thousand pixels more on my observations on the flooding issue, but here’s a link to photos taken the day of the storm (Sunday).

Here are photos I took today (keeping in mind that this is 12 hours after the storm):

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I have started a google map representing known flooding areas. Please feel free to add to the map, or contact me so that I can add to the map. Link to map: Google Norwalk Flooding Map.

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