by | May 9, 2017 7:38 am | Comments (4)
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Harp: Prepare, but don’t tip hand.
The state’s latest budget crisis has New Haven Mayor Toni Harp preparing for a local hit — but she’s determined not to tip the city’s hand.
by | Apr 24, 2017 12:29 pm | Comments (4)
Fire union web campaign against Engine 9 plan.
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Chief John Alston Jr. testifies at City Hall.
A plan to remove Engine 9 from the Ellsworth Avenue firehouse is dead, but the new fire chief has other plans to beef up the department’s response to medical calls, restructure its organization, and save the city money.
by | Apr 21, 2017 12:08 pm | Comments (16)
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Interim Police Chief Anthony Campbell and Assistant Chief Ontoniel Reyes pitch their budget to alders.
Top city cop Anthony Campbell came to City Hall bearing an apology as well as some good news about the police department’s budget.
by | Apr 10, 2017 1:51 pm | Comments (2)
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Briscoe testifies.
The city department that handles 911 calls is looking to upgrade a critical component of its communications technology to ensure that notifications sent to the fire department are appearing in a timely and accurate manner.
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by | Apr 7, 2017 1:28 pm | Comments (8)
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Edgewood basketball court, among those slated for resealing.
Carone, Bombero, and Dixon detail projects at hearing.
New Haven basketball players can look forward to smoother surfaces and clearer three-point lines at courts throughout the city. Wooster Square will be better lit at night. And more security cameras may pop up in city parks.
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by | Apr 5, 2017 4:56 pm | Comments (8)
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Mason: State cuts are coming.
New Haven Works has placed its 1,000th Elm City resident into a job — but may have trouble continuing that work in the face of proposed budget cuts.
by | Mar 31, 2017 10:21 am | Comments (13)
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Jefferson at Thursday’s public hearing.
The former director of the city’s Commission on Equal Opportunity (CEO) blasted the new director’s efforts to get that office back monitoring contractors and his failure to hold monthly meetings with the board members who oversee his work.
by | Mar 30, 2017 10:22 pm | Comments (11)
Marcus Paca, who is seeking the Democratic mayoral nomination against incumbent Toni Harp, Thursday night blasted her proposed $554.5 million operating budget for the coming fiscal year, for increasing spending rather than cutting it.
by | Mar 30, 2017 8:10 am | Comments (11)
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High-schoolers help prepare the Escape before work stopped.
Bartlett: Summer.
A year after expecting to open a new center for disengaged and homeless youth, city officials offered explanations for a series of mishaps and delays — and asked for another $200,000 to complete the job.
by | Mar 27, 2017 12:17 pm | Comments (7)
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Paolillo: Show me the surplus.
A budget-watching alder has put the finance department and every other department proposing capital spending increases for the next fiscal year on notice: Be ready to defend those requests as well any projects that still have open balances.
by | Mar 20, 2017 7:46 am | Comments (12)
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Clerkin and Melita at the start of Thursday’s hearing.
Mayor Toni Harp’s proposed budget for her office is the same as what alders approved last year. Alders still had a question: How has the adminisitration managed to raise pay for executive staff with minimal to no increase in her budget and without their approval?
by | Mar 17, 2017 12:25 pm | Comments (0)
Rose (center), his executive assistant, Paula Pernal (right), Deputy Corporation Counsel Cherie Phoenix (left) at hearing.
A hearing about the city’s top lawyer’s budget turned into an examination of why his office is taking over the labor relations department, when he plans to fill a top vacancy there, and whether he’s assuring that city officials are up to date on how to properly handle and dispose of official public records in the wake of a still ongoing controversy over a high-profile firing.
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by | Mar 17, 2017 8:08 am | Comments (6)
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Evans and Knight field questions Thursday night.
New Haven’s Democratic registrar of voters promised to have more poll workers and more signage on the next Election Day with a $20,000 bump in her budget.
But first she’ll have to figure out why she’s sitting on a projected surplus of more than $200,000.
by | Mar 14, 2017 3:43 pm | Comments (7)
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Local 3144 showed up in force for the hearing.
Hoping for a three-year streak, supporters made their pitch for increased funding of the city’s library system.
Continue reading ‘Library Supporters, Local 3144 Pitch Alders On Budget’
by | Mar 1, 2017 9:16 am | Comments (15)
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Jones and Clerkin Tuesday.
Mayor Toni Harp proposed a $554.5 million general fund budget that she said would “pay the bills and keep the lights on” without raising taxes — assuming the cash-strapped state ups its annual aid to the city by $30 million.
by | Feb 27, 2017 3:37 pm | Comments (12)
New Haven government will spend more money this coming fiscal year, but will keep taxes the same as last year — at least in the proposed budget Mayor Toni Harp plans to unveil Tuesday afternoon.
by | Feb 14, 2017 8:53 am | Comments (13)
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Pullen: Business hit more.
East Rockers who live near State Street saw their property values shoot up. Those nearer to Whitney Avenue didn’t.
That’s because the impact of the city’s latest revaluation comes down to location, location, location —- and often how close you live to new luxury apartments.
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Neighborhood breakdown for Revaluation 2016, including single and some multifamily homes.
Continue reading ‘Luxury Apts. Raise Values, Blood Pressure’
by | Feb 5, 2017 12:23 am | Comments (10)
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Assessor Pullen.
New Haven’s building boom catapulted the city’s grand list — its total amount of assessed taxable property — to $6,915,801,814 this past year.
by | Feb 1, 2017 5:09 pm | Comments (28)
New Haven will need to find a way to pay starting cops more if it wants to stop the suburbs from stealing them, Mayor Toni Harp said Monday.
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Colon: “We have been shaken down.”
Alders praised the hiring of New Haven’s new fire chief — but not the $2,000 monthly housing allowance that came with it.
by | Aug 25, 2016 8:26 am | Comments (70)
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Marchand: Artful Ducker.
City officials scrambled this week to prevent another Yale-union spat from blowing an unexpected $5.6 million hole in the just-ended fiscal year budget.
In the end, Yale leveraged a threat to win assurances it can proceed with a plan to build a new biology lab.
by | Jul 1, 2016 7:30 am | Comments (2)
Jim Turcio.
A rush of last-minute customers got the city to its goal for permit fees for the fiscal year ending Thursday — as new political events put projections for the new year into doubt.
by | Jun 7, 2016 1:25 am | Comments (25)
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Alders Marchand, Brackeen Monday night.
Paolillo led the charge for fiscal restraint.
The Board of Alders passed a $523.3 million city budget — and immediately started working toward closing a potential $2 million hole in it.
The approval came during a four-hour meeting at City Hall. It capped months of deliberations over the budget for the fiscal year starting July 1.
by | May 24, 2016 7:43 am | Comments (8)
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Paolillo: Still skeptical that city can afford it.
A new $45 million K‑4 “lab” school that alders were dead set against rebuilding last year got a renewed lease on life after key alders had a change of heart.
by | May 24, 2016 7:39 am | Comments (6)
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Westville Alder Adam Marchand addresses Monday night’s Finance Committee meeting.
Alders put crossing guards and librarians back into the new city budget while taking out money from the schools in order to shore up finances, at a Finance Committee meeting Monday night.
Continue reading ‘Library, Crossing Guard Jobs Added Back Into Budget’