Gormany Retiring As City Budget Director

Now that he's not acting anymore, I guess he doesn't want to comply with the residency requirement.
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/serfilippi_sues_the_city

Ladies & Gentlemen... Give Dennis Serfillipi a big citizens 'round of applause'
One would think NHI could do a better job with this story, given it's broader 'context'.

Is he also responsible for the wildcat spending and the deficit in the BOE, since they go hand in hand....
I am not grateful for the mess and the fiscal hocus pocus that created a "surplus" out of thin air. raising taxes all the way home.....

"Mayor Justin Elicker noted that the city has had ​“five straight years of budget surpluses” and built up the rainy day fund to $43.9 million under Gormany’s tenure."

Those "budget surpluses" are a product of smoke and mirrors accounting, one-time pandemic relief and short-term limited property tax contributions from Yale. What about the unfunded OPEB employee retirement pensions and benefits of $400+ million for City and $600+ million for police/fire? These make that "$43.9 million rainy day fund" look like a drop in the bucket. Let's get honest and transparent!

If Dennis sees this he'll no doubt point out that the so-called surplus involved a) tax increases and b) leaving jobs unfilled.

Well he was just appointed in WH as new finance director.

Got his 20 - retires and collects. Works for somebody else. Classic double dipping. Gormany is a nice guy but he wasn't known for his financial wizardry or keeping it between the lines on city finances. He was a political appointee. He did what his minders told him to do. So in his career, he signed off on those hinky refinancing schemes that is now driving our debt service higher every year for the next 12 years. He operates deficit budgets under Harp; continued backdating Yale payments to the previous fiscal year to make it look like balanced budgets and was unable to restrain spending from the political class that has driven monster tax increases during the last five years. Spending exceeds inflation and has increased by some $100 million; taxes are higher by 30% or more. As for the Rainy Day Fund - this has not come from real surpluses generating from spending less than your tax revenue. It has come from state, Yale and Fed largess. Without it, we'd have no surplus.

Thanks for clearing up any misconception!
This is what genuine 'community discussion' is about... a genuine back and forth!

Anonymous 'spoilers' take notice!!!!

One City Dump: This is not "classic double dipping", nor is he double dipping at all. Double dipping is when you retire from an entity (City of New Haven), collect a pension payment (from the City of New Haven) and then come back and work for that same entity (City of New Haven) on contract or another position, either with the City or the City of New Haven's Board of Education. Gormany is leaving the City's employ and working for a completely different entity. If he only worked twenty years, he will be receiving a discounted pension based on 20 years of service and no retiree medical benefits. The only problem I see is that Mr. Gormany is leaving one hell hole to go to another.

Out of the frying pan into the fire. West Haven has really ugly financial issues.