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As part of the Town of West Hartford’s commitment to increase the emergency preparedness of the community, a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) was re-established on March 3, 2021.

West Hartford CERT is a group of local volunteers from different neighborhoods that receive special training to enhance their ability to recognize, respond to, and recover from a major emergency or disaster situation. As an organized team, individuals can provide vital services in the absence of and while waiting for the arrival of emergency responders; they often also assist once responders arrive.

The team is considered an integral part of the Town’s Office of Emergency Management which is under the direction of Fire Chief Greg Priest.

CERT training consists of a basic standardized 20-hour course followed by additional training in shelter management, first aid and disaster preparedness. Teams are trained by professional responders in areas that will help them take care of themselves and others before, during and after a major emergency. CERT members will also take an online FEMA training course.

Here are the slides from his presentation:Bob MCue Jan 30 2024

Prior to founding Mullaney & Associates in 1994 (forerunner to Mullaney, Keating & Wright) he was Executive Vice President of Shawmut Banks (CT and MA) and Business Line Manager for Investment Services (investment management and related fiduciary services for $12+ billion in personal, endowment and employee benefit assets) and for Capital Markets (bond dealer, discount brokerage and government finance). Earlier, Tom was Vice President of The First National Bank of Chicago.

He is a graduate of Beloit College (BA), Northwestern University (MA-Economics) where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and the University of Chicago (MBA-Finance). Tom served to LT (jg) in the U.S. Navy and participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis and Operation Deepfreeze.

Active in civic organizations, Tom is past Chairman of Riverfront Recapture and was a director of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center.  Tom is the past president of The 1892 Club. He is a former Chairman of Capitol Housing Corporation and has served as a director of the Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce, the Connecticut Development Authority, where he was vice chairman, and the Connecticut Public Expenditure Council. He chairs the investment committee of the American School for the Deaf. He is a Fellow of the American Leadership Forum.

He has been registered as General Securities Principal, Municipal Securities Principal, Financial Operations Principal and Uniform State Securities Agent.

Tom lives in West Hartford. He has two adult children.

Here are the slides Tom used in his presentation: OLD T Mullaney GUARD PRESENTATION 23 JAN 24

Dana R. Bucin is a partner and chair of Murtha Cullina’s Immigration practice.

She represents businesses and individual clients on a wide range of immigration matters, including green card applications, work visas, student visas, foreign investor visas, asylum, naturalization, religious work visas, as well as various other employment and family-based immigration matters.

As an immigration attorney with a business/corporate legal background, Dana’s experience includes counseling foreign investors and entrepreneurs on setting up businesses in the U.S. or investing in existing U.S. ventures and obtaining a visa or green card based on such investment or entrepreneurship pursuant to the E-2, L-1 “new office”, H-1B “entrepreneur” and EB-5 visa options.

Dana regularly provides multilingual legal representation in English, Spanish, French and Romanian. She also has a basic knowledge of Italian, German, Hungarian and Latin. She is often quoted as an expert by publications such as Bloomberg/BusinessWeek and the Hartford Business Journal on immigration law topics.

Dana serves as Murtha Cullina’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Committee chair, where she is responsible for the oversight of the firm’s diversity and inclusion strategy and initiatives, ensuring that the firm’s core principles of inclusiveness and diversity are reflected across its internal and external policies, work and practices.

In addition, Dana handles a variety of cases to assist immigrants and refugees with humanitarian legal needs.

To better accomplish the Honor Flight mission and serve our military veterans of the State of Connecticut, in April of 2019, Honor Flight Connecticut was formed as an official hub of the National Honor Flight Network.  The Honor Flight Connecticut mission is to honor our veterans by transporting them to Washington, DC to visit and reflect at their memorials.  Honor Flight Connecticut proudly joins with 131 other Honor Flight Hubs in 45 other states sharing in that same mission.