Apr
09
2010
When Timothy M. Herbst took the oath of office as the town’s first selectman last December, he promised to identify $1 million in operational savings within his first 100 days in office. At his first State of the Town address Thursday night in front of about 100 town residents and employees gathered in Frenchtown School, he …
Mar
25
2010
In a break with recent tradition, First Selectman Tim Herbst will deliver his State of the Town Address April 8 at 7 p.m. at Frenchtown School. For the past several years, the speech has been held at a Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting. Herbst said the time change would allow more members of …
Mar
18
2010
Three full months of budget work has paid off in a $1 million savings for taxpayers, according to numbers released by First Selectman Tim Herbst Wednesday morning. Herbst, who made identifying $1 million in operational savings in his first 100 days in office one of his top campaign promises, issued the statement on March 17, …
Feb
14
2010
First Selectman Timothy Herbst does not want the town to drown in a sea of debt, which is why he asked the Town Council to rescind a plan to include a $5 million natatorium as part of the Trumbull High School renovation project. He does, however, recognize the need for a new town pool, and …
Feb
11
2010
First Selectman Timothy Herbst is proposing a $135.7 million town budget for 2010-11 that would cut more than $3 million from all departmental spending requests and inches the mill rate upward slightly. Herbst unveiled his spending recommendations of $135,722,167, the first since his election last November, on Wednesday. A town police officer delivered budget books …
Feb
03
2010
Who should take over in the event the first selectman can’t function? Should voters get to choose three instead of two town council candidates in their districts, since there are three winners? Should the town change how it posts notices in this digital age? These are some of the questions that could generate local debate …
Jan
26
2010
A standoff has emerged between the committee overseeing the as-new renovation of Trumbull High School and the Town Council over whether to formally — and probably irreversibly — sever the $5 million originally allocated for a pool to replace the existing one at Hillcrest Middle School from the project’s authorization. The matter is likely to …
Jan
20
2010
Layoffs are a “real and tangible” prospect in the town’s future if municipal and education unions don’t agree to furloughs and salary givebacks, according to First Selectman Timothy M. Herbst. Preparing a budget complicated by a troubled economy and, in an effort to keep his own campaign promises to run a lean government, Herbst has …
Jan
13
2010
After recent scares about explosives at Trumbull High School and concerns about crowd control at the Westfield Trumbull mall, First Selectman Timothy M. Herbst knows he wants an addition to the Trumbull Police Department that can really sniff out a crime. And Tuesday he told the Police Commission to get just that by adding a …
Jan
04
2010
As he negotiated with municipal unions earlier this year for concessions that would reduce health insurance costs, then-Democratic First Selectman Raymond G. Baldwin Jr. apparently kept a secret that has raised the blood pressure of the new Republican administration. It seems that Baldwin, and a number of other town officials, were getting their own health …