The Bloomfield Community Dispatch

Bloomfield Did Not Record $1.35 Million State Grant; Credit Rating at Risk With Moody's rating withdrawn and S&P deadline 51 days away, missing education funding highlights financial reporting crisis (Image: Generated for The Dispatch) By Peter C. Frank Editor-in-Chief, The Bloomfield Community Dispatch February 7, 2026 BLOOMFIELD — The State of Connecticut disbursed a scheduled Education Cost Sharing (ECS) grant payment of approximately $1.35 million to the Town of Bloomfield in October 2025. Three months later, the Town’s own financial records—including its general ledger data displayed on the public Socrata transparency portal—show no trace of that deposit. When presented with evidence of the discrepancy and asked to explain why the funds remain unrecorded in the Town’s General Ledger, Town Manager Alvin D. Schwapp, Jr. and Finance Director Darrell Hill declined to offer an explanation. "The Office of the Town Manager...