Danbury City Council President Joe Cavo will be sworn in as the City's next Mayor on Thursday night.  This new role follows the announcement from current Mayor Mark Boughton that he would be resigning before Friday in order to become the state's next Commissioner of the Department of Revenue Services. 

Cavo has served on the City Council since 2003.  He recently retired from the Danbury Fire Department. 

In order to ease the transition, Boughton says he'll kind of split his time for the first couple of weeks.  He won't be in City Hall, but will make himself available for consultation when it comes to projects currently underway.  That includes the planned Career Academy at the old Matrix Site, infrastructure improvements to the sewer plant and the pandemic. 

Boughton and Cavo have started discussing economic plans, vaccine rollout and enforcement of the state's COVID regulations.  When it comes to the budget, Boughton and the City's Finance Director had started work on plans before he made this decision.  But at the end of the day, Boughton says Cavo will be Mayor and it will be up to him to make the decisions. 

Department heads have already started submitting their financial requests.