Town officials on Tuesday approved the hiring of a long-serving New Canaan volunteer firefighter and a veteran of the U.S. Navy as parking enforcement officers.
Michael Esposito is a second lieutenant in New Canaan Fire Company No. 1 and has been volunteering with the service since 2011, according to Cheryl Pickering-Jones, director of human resources for the town. He also has been employed as a WB Mason driver and auto mechanic, and is working toward a criminal justice degree at the University of Connecticut, she said.
Maurice Herring has been working as a WWE security officer since 2012, she said, and had worked for a decade prior to that as a judicial marshal. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Herring also is working toward a criminal justice degree, Pickering-Jones told members of the Board of Selectmen at a special meeting on Tuesday.
“I think we have two great applicants who will really help to make [Parking Bureau Superintendent] Stacey [Miltenberg]’s department whole again,” she told the selectmen at the meeting, held in Town Hall.
The selectmen voted 3-0 in favor of the dual hiring, with a motion from First Selectman Rob Mallozzi and ‘yes’ votes from selectmen Beth Jones and Nick Williams.
“They both sounded great,” Jones said.
Parking officials say the new hires are expected to start later this month.