Online Tool Helps Residents Calculate Phased-In Property Tax Bill
by | Apr 28, 2022 8:44 am | Comments (8)
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Building Permit Budget $ On The Rise
by | Apr 26, 2022 3:37 pm | Comments (0)
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Construction underway at 101 College St., across from Alexion bioscience building at 100 College.
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Projected building permit revenue -- listed as "building inspections."
The Elicker Administration expects a $1.3 million bump in building permit revenue next fiscal year, as city inspectors take on complex — and costly — new buildings like the in-the-works 10-story bioscience tower at 101 College St.
Budget Q: More LCI Specialists Needed?
by | Apr 25, 2022 1:51 pm | Comments (7)
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LCI Deputy Frank D'Amore tracking neighborhood blight.
LCI general fund positions in the mayor's proposed budget.
Will two more “neighborhood specialists” help cut down on blight, hold landlords accountable, and build trust in City Hall?
Or does New Haven need to rethink — and potentially overhaul — the structure of its anti-blight and housing-code-enforcement agency, before adding any more “generalist” positions to the city budget?
Town Green Plans Biz-District Tax Bump
by | Apr 22, 2022 8:14 am | Comments (6)
Biz-district leaders at Thursday's Finance Committee meeting.
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Town Green's downtown domain.
Downtown’s business improvement district is looking for an extra $60,000 from city taxpayers — and a 7.5 percent surtax hike on downtown property owners — to help fund its ongoing efforts to beautify and liven up the city center.
NHPS Issues $5M "Turn On Lights" Plea
by | Apr 20, 2022 12:02 pm | Comments (7)
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Educators rally outside City Hall for full school funding.
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Expenditure breakdown for proposed schools budget.
Teacher salaries. Student transportation. Building maintenance. Special education.
All of those costs are on the rise — and New Haven’s public schools need at least $5 million more to close the gap.
Youth & Rec Seeks 2 New Deputies
by | Apr 18, 2022 9:33 am | Comments (9)
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City Youth and Recreation Director Gwendolyn Busch Williams at budget workshop.
The recently reorganized city Youth and Recreation Department is looking to add two new deputy director positions to beef up programming and building maintenance.
Nurse Vacancies Spark Budget Debate
by | Apr 15, 2022 10:35 am | Comments (10)
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City Health Director Maritza Bond at Thursday's budget workshop.
Should the city add two new public health nurse positions to the budget … at a time when 25 already-existing nurse positions are vacant?
Police OT Costs Keep Rising Amid Vacancies
by | Apr 1, 2022 3:51 pm | Comments (33)
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Cop recruits take oath in November: Preparing to hit streets, cut OT costs.
The police overtime budget is slated to top $10.6 million next fiscal year, as the department grapples with its lowest number of sworn officers in decades.
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Crisis Response Plan Contract, Grant Advance
by | Apr 1, 2022 9:23 am | Comments (0)
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City Department of Community Resilience Acting Director Carlos Sosa-Lombardo presents at Wednesday night's Finance Committee hearing.
The Elicker Administration’s long-delayed plans to set up a non-cop crisis response team inched forward, as committee alders endorsed a $3.5 million contract with Yale and receipt of a $2 million federal grant.
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Full-Reval Mill Rate Debated
by | Mar 16, 2022 3:53 pm | Comments (39)
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Fair Haven Alder Ernie Santiago, Prospect Hill/Newhallville Alder Steve Winter, and Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers at budget workshop.
How low could the mill rate go if the mayor scraps his planned reval phase-in?
36? 32.7? Somewhere in between?
Top city budget officials and committee alders debated that question during the first “workshop” on Mayor Justin Elicker’s proposed $633 million budget.
City-Yale Deal Advances
by | Mar 15, 2022 9:15 am | Comments (12)
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Hailing Yale-city deal, clockwise from top left: Dolores Colon, Jahmal Henderson, Abby Feldman, Alejandro Rojas, Ken Suzuki, Rebecca Corbett.
A deal for Yale to increase voluntary payments to the city by $52 million over six years — and design and control a pedestrian plaza on High Street — won a key preliminary aldermanic approval, as supporters hailed a potential turning point in town-gown relations.
Landlords Fazed By Phase-In
by | Mar 10, 2022 4:39 pm | Comments (30)
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Patricia Wallace: Seniors, renters feeling the squeeze.
Even if the city phases in higher property values over the next five years, landlords will likely pass along higher rents next year — if the mill rate doesn’t drop further.
New York-based developer Nitsan Ben-Horin offered those words of caution during a virtual “town hall” about the mayor’s proposed Fiscal Year 2022 – 23 (FY23) budget. And he wasn’t alone, as landlords sounded an alarm.
Reval Phase-In Winners: Developers, Megalandlords
by | Mar 4, 2022 2:38 pm | Comments (41)
The Corsair: FY23 tax bill with phase-in: $1.1M. Full FY23 tax bill at lower mill rate without phase-in: $1.6M.
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360 State. Phased-in FY23 tax bill: $2.2M. Full FY23 tax bill at lower mill rate: $2.4M.
Mandy-controlled four-family home at 310 W. Division. Phased-in FY23 tax bill: $6.3K. Full FY23 tax bill at lower mill rate: $7.8K.
(News analysis) A tax-assessment phase-in aimed at helping struggling homeowners would end up reaping some of the biggest bucks for two other groups in town: luxury housing developers and poverty megalandlords.
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$633M Budget, Reval Phase-in Proposed
by | Mar 1, 2022 4:00 pm | Comments (36)
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Budget Director Gormany, Mayor Elicker at Tuesday reveal.
Elicker's FY23 general fund budget revenue.
Libraries open on Sundays.
New neighborhood specialists, police supervisors, school nurses, and city tech staffers.
Higher “fixed-cost” payments around pensions, debt service, and utilities.
And a shaved mill rate — along with a tax-bill bump for most New Haven property owners.
Those are highlights of a $633.1 million general fund budget for Fiscal Year 2022 – 2023 (FY23) proposed Tuesday by Mayor Justin Elicker.
Spyware Starts Surveilling Students
by | Feb 18, 2022 1:39 pm | Comments (26)
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Computer work in class, now monitored ...
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... thanks to NHPS's adoption of GoGuardian.
Watching YouTube or surfing the Web during class? Better watch out: New Haven public school teachers can now look at what students are up to on their computers when they should be doing school work, thanks to a recently adopted classroom online surveillance program primed for a three-year run.
Controversial Adult Ed Lease Deal Advances
by | Feb 16, 2022 1:03 pm | Comments (0)
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Inside Adult Ed at 540 Ella T. Grasso Blvd.
The city’s Adult Ed program is likely staying put in its rundown Ella T. Grasso Boulevard building through 2025 — as alders reluctantly advanced a renewed lease that would see rent jump by tens of thousands of dollars each year, and that calls on the new landlord to repair an old HVAC system, leaky ceilings, and damaged carpeting.
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City-Yale Deal Ready For Review
by | Jan 17, 2022 1:34 pm | Comments (25)
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High at Elm: Slated to become Yale-controlled ped plaza.
A deal for Yale to increase voluntary payments to the city by $52 million over the next six years — and design, convert, and control a publicly owned pedestrian plaza on High Street — has taken its first formal step towards potential approval, in the form of a package of legislation newly submitted by the mayor to the Board of Alders.
New “Resilience” Department Created
by | Sep 24, 2021 9:59 am | Comments (13)
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Dept. of Community Resilience pitch from August.
And just like that, there is now a new city department — charged with finding a data-driven, coordinated response to a vast array of social issues, from homelessness to mental health disorders to drug addiction to prison reentry.
Hill Health, Skating Rink Contracts Advance
by | Aug 10, 2021 3:40 pm | Comments (2)
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Ralph Walker Skating Rink.
Alders unanimously advanced two proposed public-private accords — one that would keep a community health center in Dixwell for the next two decades, another that would bring an ice rink management company to Upper State Street for the next five years.
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New “Resilience” Department Moves Ahead
by | Aug 10, 2021 9:37 am | Comments (16)
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Rethinking government: Community Services Administrator Mehul Dalal discusses plans at press conference last week.
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The city’s pitch for a new Department of Community Resilience.
Alders unanimously advanced the Elicker Administration’s proposed creation of a new bulked up and reorganized social problem-solving city department — after debating using short-term federal cash to address long-term societal problems.
Mayoral Challenger Calls For Tax Cut
by | Jul 8, 2021 6:08 pm | Comments (32)
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Karen DuBois-Walton (center) at Thursday’s tax presser, part 2.
A PILOT promise has been broken, mayoral challenger Karen DuBois-Walton claimed: More state aid has come in, but local taxes haven’t dropped.
A PILOT promise has been kept, Mayor Justin Elicker replied: More state aid has come in, and local taxes haven’t spiked.
“Shared Risk,” Shared Pain Pensions Pitched
by | Jun 29, 2021 12:32 pm | Comments (23)
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Board Prez Walker-Myers at pension session: All ideas are welcome.
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Gordon Hamlin offered a trigger warning before making his pitch for a “shared risk” solution to the city’s underfunded public pensions.
“There’s something in this proposal for everyone to love,” Hamlin advised, “and there’s something in this proposal for everyone to hate.”
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DuBois-Walton Hits Mayor On Taxes, Breaks
by | Jun 24, 2021 8:15 pm | Comments (29)
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DuBois-Walton at presser: Mayor’s job is to find way to do what’s right.
If something appears wrong — like city government OK’ing, with almost no questions asked, $900,000 in state tax breaks for companies accused of fraud and controlled by an imprisoned sex predator — what should a mayor do?
Mayoral candidate Karen DuBois-Walton offered an answer Thursday that differed from the one offered by her opponent: Find a legal way to do what’s right.
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State Budget Result: City’s PILOT Doubles+
by | Jun 9, 2021 9:19 pm | Comments (11)
New Haven can expect to receive $90 million this coming year in state payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) — more than twice as much as last year.
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Federal Aid Windfall Grows By $25.3M
by | Jun 7, 2021 10:14 am | Comments (5)
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City Budget Director Gormany: Lots more money coming the city’s way.
The federal aid tidal wave just got $25.3 million bigger.