by | Jan 25, 2011 4:00 pm | Comments (43)
Barnard Principal Mike Crocco and Assistant Principal Yolanda Jones-Generette.
Barnard school has one assistant principal with a salary over $100,000; King/Robinson has two. Those numbers emerged in a new budgeting system that for the first time illuminates how the school district spreads $321 million among its 47 schools.
by | Jan 25, 2011 8:41 am | Comments (30)
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FOI Outlaw Will Clark.
Schools will face “bigtime” cutbacks in teachers and other workers next year if the district doesn’t find new money to fill a $13 million to $18 million budget gap in fiscal year 2011-12.
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by | Jan 20, 2011 1:31 pm | Comments (1)
Larry Dorman, spokesman for AFSCME Council 4, which represents five city unions with over 1,500 workers, disagreed with New Haven Mayor John DeStefano’s call for changing state rules on binding arbitration. Following is a statement he issued on the subject. (Read about DeStefano’s call here.)
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‘AFSCME Blasts Mayor
On "Tiresome Complaints"’
by | Jan 20, 2011 8:36 am | Comments (6)
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How does a satellite photo of a permeable brick paver look different from an impermeable one? Members of the City Plan Commission considered that question, then recommended a proposed Stormwater Authority ordinance to the Board of Aldermen. But they attached a condition: Show us the details.
by | Jan 19, 2011 8:24 am | Comments (30)
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New Haven’s mayor sent Hartford a message: Yes, we need money. Just as important, we need to revolutionize the way we settle labor disputes.
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by | Jan 14, 2011 8:51 am | Comments (14)
The mayor may “accelerate” some cuts to city services after learning of a new $2.6 million budget hole due to delayed state repayments on school construction projects.
by | Jan 13, 2011 1:26 pm | Comments (32)
Just as the mayor warned of “massive” layoffs if workers don’t give up benefits, City Hall filled four positions and has posted seven more.
by | Jan 10, 2011 8:15 am | Comments (22)
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As New Haven tackles a budget crisis, it’s considering selling off garages and parking lots across town.
by | Jan 6, 2011 9:20 am | Comments (50)
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CAO Smuts (r) lays it down; Alderman Goldson (l) picks it up.
With the creation of a new stormwater authority, a city worker will check out your house via satellite — to see how big a bill you should receive.
by | Jan 3, 2011 6:00 pm | Comments (47)
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Nancy Reagan (left), John DeStefano: 1 word, 2 approaches.
Other cities have laid off over 100 cops. Or stopped paying pensions. Or stopped shoveling snow. Or filed for bankruptcy. New Haven’s mayor declared that New Haven can avoid those fates in 2011 by avoiding a simple two-letter word.
by | Nov 24, 2010 8:56 am | Comments (53)
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(Updated) Without directly saying the words, Mayor John DeStefano set the stage for a showdown with city unions in a Thanksgiving Week talking-turkey presentation to city aldermen about New Haven’s long-range budget morass.
by | Nov 16, 2010 8:29 am | Comments (42)
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Justin Elicker, at right, with fellow East Rock Alderman Matt Smith.
Representatives of an Ohio investment firm that stands to make millions off an expensive up-front-cash scheme with the city are making the rounds of city aldermen, trying to get them on board with the plan. East Rock Alderman Justin Elicker said no — and is working to kill the deal once and for all.
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by | Nov 15, 2010 12:06 pm | Comments (25)
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Mayor John DeStefano is working on a Thanksgiving week surprise. The menu features tough talk about the city’s fiscal future.
by | Oct 26, 2010 11:05 am | Comments (12)
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The alderman to the tax assessor: New Haveners should have the same burden of proof you have when it comes to settling their bills. The assessor to the alderman: You’re comparing apples and oranges.
by | Sep 2, 2010 1:10 pm | Comments (49)
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FRAC’s Martin O’Connor and Christine Bishop.
One vision of 2015: New Haven government is $82 million in the red. A second vision: New Haven has millions to spare, thanks to a modernized fire department, less police overtime, and increased fees for baseball in the park.
by | Sep 2, 2010 7:17 am | Comments (50)
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Charges and countercharges flew for a second day over a plan to increase the city’s “living wage,” as the mayor called the proposal unaffordable. Proponents’ response: City Hall’s making up scare stories to avoid paying low-wage workers enough to avoid living in poverty.
by | Aug 27, 2010 10:53 am | Comments (24)
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Jorge Perez had a burrito for lunch at Zinc the other day. Also on the menu: the not-yet-dead idea of selling 25 years worth of city parking revenues for a quick $50 million.
by | Aug 12, 2010 8:00 am | Comments (38)
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After negotiations on a new contract hit an “impasse,” the school district and its custodians stopped talking and sent their dispute to a panel of arbitrators.
by | Jul 2, 2010 7:12 am | Comments (17)
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As he looks ahead to the new fiscal year, Mayor John DeStefano said he has a choice: keep unionized custodial services and have 30 students per classroom, or privatize and shrink class size to 24.
by | Jun 25, 2010 12:17 pm | Comments (26)
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In May, Roland Lemar pushed City Hall to cut schools spending in order to keep taxes down. Thursday, he showed up at a rally to stop City Hall from cutting school spending.
He can explain.
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‘Lemar Pushes For,
Against School Budget Cuts’
by | May 28, 2010 8:00 am | Comments (85)
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Despite last-minute attempts to make more cuts, and an eleventh-hour insurgency that almost stopped the process dead in its tracks, the Board of Aldermen voted to approve the city’s new budget largely unchanged.
by | May 25, 2010 11:15 am | Comments (40)
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“School to me is just boring,” Jordan Lampo told authorities. Without the Talented and Gifted (TAG) program — now on the budget chopping block — “I’d just be twiddling my thumbs.”
by | May 18, 2010 5:52 pm | Comments (73)
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After weeks of public meetings, the aldermanic Finance Committee agreed to slash $6 million from the mayor’s $476 million budget, but refused to make further cuts.
by | May 17, 2010 4:36 pm | Comments (68)
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No new cops. “Talented and Gifted” and summer athletic programs slashed. No more holiday tree on the Green or Fourth of July fireworks.
by | May 17, 2010 7:27 am | Comments (7)
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“You’ve got our word: We’ll give back but he [the mayor] can’t keep throwing it out at the other end.”