According to a Matt “mad Max” Breslow article in the Advocate the return of Susan Gunn is imminent.
The Norwalk Museum’s only paid employee - curator Susan Gunn Bromley, who has been on extended personal leave since December - could return to work Friday, city Personnel Director H. James Haselkamp Jr. said last week.
Meanwhile, the Friends of the Norwalk Museums - the nonprofit group whose volunteers have been staffing the facility in Bromley’s absence - are trying to become its administrators.
“This place needs hands-on administration,” former curator Ralph Bloom, a Friends member and city historian, said last week.
Bromley’s leave began Dec. 19 and was extended through Thursday, Haselkamp said. He said he expects Bromley, who is not being paid, will return on or after Friday.
Haselkamp said Friday he was reviewing Bromley’s requests for conditions under which she would return to work. He said he planned to send a response letter, and then it would be up to Bromley to decide how to proceed.
Haselkamp indicated he did not know whether Bromley will return if the city doesn’t agree to her requests, which he said he could not discuss. A representative for Bromley could not be reached Friday.
Conditions? How did a curator job become a unionized one? What is the job description? And with the entire employment apparently contentious since day one, isn’t it time that the city conclude that the job performance has not been there?source:, Norwalk Advocate, “Museum curator may return to work Friday“, , May 29 2007
