City Hall Staff
Two top Hartford development officials have resigned.
HARTFORD – Two high-ranking officials in Hartford's Department of Development Services have resigned heading into the final year of Mayor Luke Bronin's first term.
Kiley Gosselin, who until recently was the department's acting director, left for a position at the Partnership for Strong Communities, a housing nonprofit in Hartford.
She had been the deputy director of development services before the interim job.
“It has been an honor and privilege to serve this administration and the amazing residents of this great city over the past nearly three years,” she said in her resignation letter, addressed to Bronin. “I … look forward to continuing to work with you and the wonderful employees here in my future endeavors.”
Reached by phone, Gosselin declined to comment.
Jamie Bratt, the city's head of planning and economic development, also departed.
Both resignations were effec-
tive Nov. 2.
Bratt accepted a job as engagement manager for Infosys, the India-based information technology and consulting company that is planning a regional tech and innovation hub in Hartford.
“I always liked to pitch Hartford as a scale-up city and a hub of innovation, so I am quite excited to be a part of that storyline from a slightly different vantage point,” she wrote in a LinkedIn post.
In her resignation letter to Bronin, Bratt said she would continue “living and working” in the capital city.
“My heartfelt enthusiasm for Hartford's renaissance runs deep, and it always will,” she wrote.
Bratt and Gosselin came in under Development Services Director Sean Fitzpatrick, who resigned his city post in December amid questions about his residency.
Department heads are required to live in Hartford.
They left just weeks after a new director, Erik Johnson, took over.
Bronin appointed Johnson, a former New Haven Housing Authority official, in September and he began work with the city on Oct. 2.
Bronin, whose first term ends next year, has not said whether he will seek reelection.