News Flash: Regent-Gate goes from bad to worse (if possible)

Oct 10

jonpeltoHigher Education, Malloy , , 19 Comments

Late this afternoon, Robert Kennedy, the President of the Connecticut Board of Regents, announced that he was suspending the illegal salary increases that he had previously put in place.

How one suspends pay raises that can’t legally exist remains a mystery.

At today’s 4 p.m. press conference, the Chairman of the Board of Regents, Lewis Robinson, also announced, “the formation of a special committee on administration which will immediately begin to gather information to formulate the policies and procedures necessary to govern the Board’s decision making process regarding compensation – including the salary adjustments –and other administrative matters.”

While we wait for news reports from the press conference, we can only hope that some reporter asks the question.

Considering that the President of the Board of Regents didn’t have the authority to authorize the pay raises, thereby making the pay raises illegal, who will tell the people who received the illegal pay raises that they will have to return the funds to the state General Fund.

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  • Linda174

    These bumbling administrative know nothings were appointed by Malloy, yes?

    So they don’t know what they are doing and Malloy doesn’t know what they are doing?

    Who knows what they are doing? Anyone, anyone, anyone?

    Maybe we need an evaluation process to weed out the ineffective politicians? Geez…I think we would be cleaning house rather quickly.

    Let’s hold these political hacks to the same high standards they want to hold teachers to…and by the way, the Meotti raise amount (forty something) is the salary for a teacher in CT who has been teaching a few years…3-5 or so.

    Brush up on Animal Farm…Occhio is to Malloy as Squealer is to Napolean..lies and tactics, lies and tactics.

    • Sleepless in Bridgeport

      Hey Danny boy here is a new idea for you to help you determine which college presidents should get a raise.
      I know…..why don’t we invent an evaluation system and implement it all over the country before we see if it works anywhere. Oh….and we can give tests…..benchmark tests…..CFA tests……Rorshach tests…..MMPI tests. And then just fire everyone who legitimately earns a salary. Oops…..my bad….cronies, wives, and relatives excluded.
      Unions have come up for a pretty hard bashing these days, but if you study the American Labor Movement what is going on now, particularly with teachers, is exactly the level of angst that give unions a strong reason for being.
      The public thinks tenure is a terrible thing and the teachers only want to be treated with respect for the hard work they do. No one wants to be treated like cattle or deserves to be.

      • Linda174

        And we can keep the same CT acronym………….
        PEAC….political evaluation advisory conundrum.

        They couldn’t manage a class of twelve year olds for 15 minutes. Bloviating nincompoops….all of them.

  • Apartheid First

    Get rid of these leeches. They all make too much money and do nothing but promote themselves. If they don’t want the job of “decision making” as Robert Kennedy, former University of Maine colleague of Elsa Nunez, put it, they can go elsewhere. Making more money doesn’t turn one into a decision maker.
    Unless it’s to decide to grant each other more money. And to grant lucrative contracts to companies that do business in the state.
    Anyway, isn’t it time to look into all the “educators” and consultants paid for by Pryor? The corruption is deep.

    • Linda174

      Remember when a hot tub, cigars and poker games were a big deal?

      Take care of the corruption at the top Malloy just like you were so concerned about the state workers who got reimbursements for food after the storm….geez…that was probably a few hundred.

      Be the big tough guy now when it is your crony hacks.

  • buygoldandprosper

    Will this entail anothe trip to the Hibernian Hall to hire a “special committee” ? Will we have to hire another committee to oversee that committee…ad infinitum?
    Dan Malloy MUST be held accountable for this! He can’t blame ghosts of the past. He has been in office for two years and this whole mess was cooked up by Dan Malloy.

  • buygoldandprosper

    Dan speaks with a forked tongue.
    Case in point…his wife Cathy made $87,145 as head of a rape crisis center in Stamford with a budget of $87,145,mostly a state grant.
    In the worst economy of all time she got a job heading the GreaterHartfordArtsCouncil making close to $200,000 and overseeing $4-5 MILLION in money.
    Where was the anger at her raise in pay?
    Was she qualified to take over an organization like that?
    My take? More of that Malloy sense of entitlement…laughing all the way to the bank.
    “To give a $49,000 raise doesn’t fly. I’m not happy. I’m not happy I learned about it the same way you learned about it,” Malloy said. “And, quite frankly, it causes me to have questions.”

    • buygoldandprosper

      Sorry. The rape Center had a budget of $562,252 in 2010. Mostly a state grant.
      –Connecticut. Still Revolting!

    • msavage

      “I’m not happy I learned about it the same way you learned about it,” Malloy said.” Bullshit, Malloy! I’m calling Bullshit on this one.

  • buygoldandprosper

    From CTNJ–
    “Kennedy himself has a very impressive contract with the state which includes a base salary of $340,000 a year. That’s in addition to a state vehicle and an opportunity earn $25,000 for accomplishing certain performance goals and objectives, $20,000 for each full year of service, and an annual unvouchered $25,000 expense account. The contract also gives him six weeks of professional development, but Kennedy said that mostly involved “working remotely“ from his family‘s home in Brainerd, Minnesota. There were no conferences and no books written during that six week period. He also receives two weeks of vacation.
    As he was hearing Kennedy describe his contract which was negotiated with Malloy, Robinson said he was thinking he wished he had a contract like that.”
    Dan Malloy hired him. Elsewhere,back then, I howled at the package but the state legislature just laid down and rolled over like the lap-dogs they are. This is like a bad trip…Who are you going to blame for this nonsense Dan? Is it interrupting your travel and networking? Don’t worry–it will pass.

    • Linda174

      Next time you don’t feel we’ll, don’t call out sick…just say you are working remotely.

      CT Mirror, when they are done with this mess should be looking into the Pryor, Vallas, Adafraudski shenanigans. This is just the beginning.

  • apartheid first
    • Linda174

      Pathological liars believe their lies.

      He has Jepsen and McDonald and OcchioGROSSo covering for him, so they protect the narcissist and the saga continues.

      Shouldn’t Dannel and Meotti appear together and answer questions publicly?

      They bank on citizens forgetting.

      • msavage

        My guess–the have an MO all worked out. Dan wheels and deals behind the scenes, knows what everyone’s up to. They all get to benefit from his shenanigans, with the understanding that NOTHING sticks to Dan if the media finds out and the public begins to rumble about something.

        And why shouldn’t they bank on citizens forgetting? Politicians, CEO’s, bankers–very rarely held accountable in the highly corrupt U.S. of A.

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  • msavage

    The Colleen Flanagan we keep hearing about in connection with the Regents–I assume that is the same Colleen Flanagan here:

    “Gov.-elect Dan Malloy made two additional appointments today, tapping transition team press aide Colleen Flanagan as his director of communications and Arielle Reich as his director of intergovernmental affairs/special assistant to the governor.
    Flanagan was a familiar presence in Connecticut news stories during the 2010 election cycle, when she was the sharp-tongued spokeswoman for the state Democratic party. She also held communications jobs with U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd (including serving as his national press sercretary during his presidential run) and North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan”

    • jonpelto

      Yes, yes it is.
      Sent from my BlackBerry please excuss typos

  • buygoldandprosper

    $340,000 salary and he works remotely for six weeks from his home in Minnesota?!
    How many other Hibernians that Dan hired have been “working remotely”?
    Can Dan blame anyone blame himself for this? It sounds like he tried and failed but brought up his alleged “savings” as a lame excuse.
    Add it to the list of Malloy failures…almost EVERYTHING except decriminalized ganja and Sunday sales. Great leagacy Dan!
    Erin go Blah!

  • Apartheid First

    I want to know the office hours and work schedules of all the Ed reformers and board members at the state capitol. I mean all those consultants working with Pryor, there or remotely.
    Let’s not forget all the remote assistance provided by the Broad foundation and other private, corporate groups–something parents and taxpayers never even asked for.