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HARTFORDBUSINESS.COM | MAY 13, 2024 35 FOCUS | SMALL BUSINESS We appreciate our clients for choosing Whittlesey for all their business needs, whether it was their first or sixtieth season with us. A massive thank you to the Whittlesey team and our friends and families for their continuous support during these busy months. Our commitment to delivering exceptional service remains strong. We are thankful for your ongoing support and eagerly anticipate our continued collabo ration. Drew G. Andrews, CPA Managing Partner and CEO Hartford | Hamden | Holyoke 860.522.3111 | WAdvising.com Tha nk You for Another Successful Busy Season a year, primarily doing plan reviews because a number of city staff posi- tions are vacant. "There was no one on staff that really had that expertise and comfort level," he said. "So, we stepped in because they had a lot of projects that were in the hopper and we were just providing that horsepower." Tyche also provides Hartford staff training and consults on regulations, he said. Filled a niche D'Amato and Guszkowski, who declined to disclose their annual revenues, said the services they offer depend on a municipality's needs. "Sometimes you're doing a plan review for a development, sometimes you're answering an angry neigh- bor's complaint about someone's shed being too close to their side yard line," Guszkowski said. "And sometimes you're coaching a new first selectman through the first couple of months in office when they have no idea what they're doing. … We're there to help the town and do the job." He added that Tyche filled this partic- ular niche because of how difficult it is for communities to find skilled staff. "The level of complexity of applica- tions and stuff keeps getting ramped up," he said, and "we are the supply for a number of small towns to meet that demand." As an example, he noted that he was hired by the town of Clinton to serve as its interim planner, "and it took them eight years to find a full- time person. So, interim can mean a lot of things." D'Amato said that while smaller communities often don't need a certi- fied professional planner for 40 hours a week, there are times that level of experience is necessary. "When a developer shows up and says, 'I need to build a 2 million- square-foot warehouse in your town,' you still need that level of expertise for that small period of time," he said. "So, just because the volume is different doesn't mean the expertise required for all the volume they do have is lower." Tyche does have some private industry clients, but working with so many different communities means the company has to be careful to avoid any conflicts of interest, D'Amato said. "We don't necessarily have an ambition to become this big, lumbering organization with a huge staff," D'Amato added. "If we became this group of 50 people that were covering all these contracts all over the state, we would become something that I think we're both happy to not be." B R O A D W A Y S E R I E S 24 25 BUSHNELL.ORG T H E B U S H N E L L . . . W H E R E M E M O R I E S A R E M A D E T H E 2 0 2 4 – 2 0 2 5 BU S H N E L L B R OA D WAY S E R I E S I S S P O N S O R E D BY S U B S C R I B E N O W ! (L to R) Roger Bart (Doc Brown) & Casey Likes (Marty McFly) in Back to the Future: The Musical. Photo: Matthew Murphy y and Evan Zimmerman, 2023 Subscribers get advanced access to great shows like these: Book a pre-show reception for clients or staff!