ANSONIA — Mayor David Cassetti said he is not going to rush to nominate a replacement for John Izzo as a city representative and co-chairman of the Ansonia-Derby Temporary School Regionalization Committee.
“I think it should wait until after the November elections,” Cassetti said. “It’s only three months away and the committee may only meet two or three times before then.”
On Wednesday night the Ansonia Board of Education is expected to accept Izzo’s resignation.
“I anticipate that we will appoint his replacement and it will be a Republican,” said William Nimons, the school board’s president.
All this comes as a result of a Derby Police Department internal affairs investigation into Izzo’s work as an auxiliary officer there. It was alleged that Izzo, while working as an auxiliary, gave his phone number to a teenage girl at an event after speaking to her and a friend. As a result of that investigation, Izzo resigned from the auxiliary position.
On Monday, he sent a letter of resignation from the Ansonia school board to Nimons.
Izzo is a registered Republican and supporter of Cassetti. During the last two years Izzo frequently clashed with the Democratic majority on issues regarding school board policy, contracts and spending.
His resignation from the Ansonia Board of Education necessitates his removal from the regionalization study committee.
State statutes require that two Board of Educations members from both Ansonia and Derby be among the...
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