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CCM elects new officers and board of directors for 2006-07
CCM elected its officers and board of
directors for 2006-07 at the annual meeting
on June 20. Five officers were elected, seven
municipal leaders were elected for the first
time as directors, and eleven directors were
re-elected for another year. They joined five
past presidents of CCM who continue to
serve on the board.
Officers
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Herbert C.
Rosenthal, first selectman
of Newtown, was
re-elected president for
a second one-year term.
Rosenthal also is vice
chairman of the board of directors of
CIRMA, CCM’s risk management and insurance
services arm. He is treasurer of the
Housatonic Valley Resources Recovery
Authority, and past chairman of the board
of directors of the Housatonic Valley Council
of Elected Officials.
Before being elected first selectman,
Rosenthal was a member of the Newtown
Board of Education for 13 years, serving as
chairman for three years. During that same
time, he served on the board of directors of
Education Connection, the regional education
service center for 33 municipalities in
northwestern Connecticut, serving as chairman
for 10 years.
Rosenthal previously held management
positions in the insurance and financial
services field, and was a lieutenant in the
United States Navy.
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Keith J. Robbins,
first selectman of Bozrah,
was elected first vice
president. Last year he
was CCM vice president.
Robbins also is on the
board of directors of
CIRMA, CCM’s risk
management and insurance services arm,
and he is chairman of the Southeastern
Connecticut Council of Governments.
He served on Bozrah’s board of selectmen
for six years prior to election as first
selectman. Robbins has been a member of
the Bozrah Volunteer Fire Company for
nearly 20 years and is a past president of
the company. He also was chairman of the
Republican Town Committee.
In addition to his town position, he is an
industrial sales representative for Major
Electric Supply of Norwich.
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Andrew J. Nunn,
first selectman of
Monroe, was elected
secretary. Prior to being
first selectman, he was a
business-marketing executive
for 12 years, working
for ASQ, Inc., Windhover
Information, and EDGAR Online, Inc.
Nunn previously served on the Monroe
Town Council for two terms, and was a
member of Monroe’s Capital Project Task
Force and Demographics Study Committee.
He serves on the board of directors of
CIRMA, the Sound Alliance, the Regional
Youth/Adult Substance Abuse Project, and
the Connecticut Council of Small Towns.
Nunn is a past member of the Monroe
Rotary Club and also served on the CCM
Property Tax Reform Task Force.
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Timothy C.
Griswold, first selectman
of Old Lyme, was
elected treasurer. Before
becoming first selectman,
Griswold was an
18-year member and
then chairman of the
Old Lyme Board of Finance. He is a member
of the Lyme/Old Lyme Chamber of Commerce
and the Lyme/ Old Lyme Lions Club,
and serves on the board of trustees of the
Florence Griswold Museum.
He is vice chairman of CIRMA, and previously
served in several senior positions in banking. He was a vice president for
Citizen’s Bank, first vice president of Advest
Bank, assistant vice president of United
Bank and Trust, and assistant treasurer of
Hartford National Bank. Griswold served as
a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy.
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New members elected to
the board of directors
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Frank J.
Chiaramonte, first
selectman of Harwinton.
Prior to becoming first
selectman, he was president
of Chiaramonte &
Associates, a management-
consulting firm.
He served as director of business and workforce
development for the Connecticut
Community College System, executive
director of the Capital Region Workforce
Development Board, and dean of continuing
education and community services for
Greater Hartford Community College.
Chiaramonte is vice chairman of the
board of directors for Business for Downtown
Hartford and the North Central Area Agency
on Aging. He also serves as treasurer of Connecticut’s
Central Regional Tourism District.
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Melody A. Currey,
mayor of East Hartford.
Before her election as
mayor, Currey served for
12 years as the state
representative from the
10th Assembly District.
As a state legislator,
she was deputy speaker of the House of
Representatives, deputy majority leader of the House of
Representatives, ranking member of the
Regulation and Review Committee, and a
member of the Appropriations Committee
and Education Committee.
Currey serves on the executive boards of
the Capital Region Council of Governments
(CRCOG) and Riverfront Recapture. She is
co-chairman of the East Hartford School
Readiness Council and ex-officio member
of ChildPlan, Inc.
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Matthew B.
Galligan, town manager
of South Windsor.
Prior to serving in South
Windsor, Galligan was
village manager of
Mamaroneck, NY; town
manager of North Branford; and city manager
of Newburgh, NY. He has served as a municipal
auditor for the New York State Department
of Audit and Control and as an accounting
professor for Dutchess Community College.
Galligan is a credentialed manager with
the International City/County Management
Association. He also is a member of the
American Society of Public Administrators
and the South Windsor Rotary.
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Rudolph P. Marconi, first selectman
of Ridgefield. Before his
election as first selectman,
Marconi was vice
president of Marconi
Construction Company.
He started his career as
a sales representative and then senior sales
representative for Great Northern Paper
Company.
He first served Ridgefield as a member of
the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission,
before winning a seat on the board of
selectman prior to becoming first selectman.
Marconi is chairman of the Housatonic
Resources Recovery Authority and the
Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials.
Marconi is co-chair of the Ridgefield Community
Coalition Against Substance Abuse,
and is a member of the Ridgefield Lyme
Disease Task Force and the Ridgefield Deer
Management Committee.
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David A. Pinney,
first selectman of
Somers. Before his election
as first selectman,
Pinney served as a
research fellow with the
Hudson River Foundation
and as a teaching assistant at Yale University.
Earlier, he worked in the insurance
field as a broker with Himmelstein & Associates
of Glastonbury and as a sales executive
with Vinson Associates of Springfield, MA.
He started his career as owner/operator of
Maple Knoll Farm in Somers.
Pinney serves on the executive committee
of the Capital Region Council of Governments
(CRCOG) and the board of directors
of ACCESS, the community action agency
for Windham and Tolland counties.
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Betsy Paterson, mayor of Mansfield -- Paterson has been active in both CCM and the National League of Cities (NLC). She is chairperson of the CCM Task Force on Early Childhood Development and CCM’s Legislative Subcommittee on Education. She is also a member of the CCM Task Force on Children, Youth & Families.
Nationally, Patterson is chairperson of NLC ‘s University & College Community Caucus Steering Committee.
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Martin Berliner, interim city manager of New London -- Berliner previously served on the CCM board as town manager of Mansfield. He retired from Mansfield in November after 17 years as town manager; and then was appointed to serve as interim city manager of New London. Berliner has been an active member of CCM’s Legislative Committee for many years, and serves on the board of directors of the Connecticut Interlocal Risk Management Agency (CIRMA), CCM’s risk management and insurance services arm.
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Members re-elected to the board
of directors
- Dennison L. Allen, first selectman of
Sprague
- Martin H. Berliner, town manager of
Mansfield
- Woody Bliss, first selectman of Weston
- Mark D. Boughton, mayor of Danbury
- John A. Elsesser, town manager of
Coventry
- John M. Fabrizi, mayor of Bridgeport
- David K. Kilbon, first selectman of East
Granby
- Kevin Kopetz, first selectman of North
Haven
- Michael A. Pace, first selectman of Old
Saybrook
- Eddie A. Perez, mayor of Hartford
- Michael P. Stupinski, first selectman of
Ellington.
Past presidents of CCM serving
on the board
- Philip K. Schenck, Jr., town manager of
Avon
- Dannel Malloy, mayor of Stamford
- John Weichsel, town manager of
Southington
- John DeStefano, Jr., mayor of New Haven
- Stephen T. Cassano, Selectman of
Manchester.
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