Finance Committee Chair and Westville Alder Adam Marchand, rising in support of the new $662.7M FY24 budget.
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Assessor's office estimates of FY24 tax bill bumps.
Tax bills are heading up next fiscal year — even as the tax rate drops — thanks to the Board of Alders’ unanimous approval of a final budget that preserves the mayor’s top-line expenditure, revenue, and mill rate numbers.
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May 22, 2023 3:49 pm
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Tallying up Friday's school board election results at City Hall.
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Cross sophomore John Carlos Serana Musser.
Wilbur Cross High School sophomore John Carlos Serana Musser will be the next student representative on the Board of Education, after coming out on top in a three-way race for a soon-to-open seat.
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May 17, 2023 1:16 pm
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School board student rep candidates Laila Kelly Walker, John Carlos Serana Musser, and Hsiu-Mei Chow-Yen, with current board member Dave Cruz-Bustamante.
Making classroom lessons more relevant and engaging, increasing student pride in school facilities’ good repair, and boosting mentorship programs for K‑12 students across the district.
Those top the list of priorities of the three New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students who are now running in an election for a soon-to-open student rep seat on the Board of Education.
Co-op demo, apartment construction in the works on Howard.
A rendering of the to-be-redeveloped ex-Hill Co-Op.
The Board of Alders approved two tax breaks for two different affordable housing projects across town — including at a former Hill co-op, which will see 32 apartments knocked down and 64 built up as part of a first phase of redevelopment.
Finance Chair Adam Marchand: Drop 25 new jobs to avoid more ARPA spending.
A panel of alders left the mayor’s top-line budget and mill rate numbers intact — even as they recommended slashing more than two dozen proposed new positions from the city fiscal plan set to take effect July 1.
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Laura Glesby |
May 12, 2023 9:05 am
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Attorney Mednick and Commissioner Furlow charting charter's path ahead.
How much power should politicians have to restructure local government? And which city department heads should have to live in New Haven?
The Charter Revision Commission didn’t land on any answers to those questions at its final scheduled meeting. It voted to let the Board of Alders issue a recommendation instead.
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Thomas Breen |
May 10, 2023 3:04 pm
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Rick Woods contributing to city coffers outside Affinity.
City government picked up extra cash for cleaner streets and other state-allowed public service programs as local sales rack up for legal pot and mini-liquor-bottle “nips.”
Chief of Staff Matteson (left): Better pay would "help in recruitment and retention."
The Elicker administration is looking to stem the flow of City Hall departures and make top positions more competitive by increasing pay for department heads, coordinators, and other non-unionized managers — through salary range bumps and automatic cost of living adjustments.
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Thomas Breen |
May 9, 2023 1:03 pm
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Local 884 Prez Kym Bray: New 5-year agreement a "symbol of recognizing and appreciating the work that our members do every day."
911 call center workers, school security guards, parking enforcement officers, and city attorneys are all now closer to landing pay raises, as alders moved ahead two labor accords for groups of municipal workers who have gone nearly three years without an active contract.
Charter Revision Vice-Chair and Board of Alders Majority Leader Richard Furlow (right) at a recent aldermanic committee meeting.
Charter revisers took a step towards endorsing four-year terms for mayors and alders — and a step away from allowing city department heads to live outside of New Haven.
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Thomas Breen |
May 4, 2023 8:52 am
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Rendering of redeveloped Strong School.
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Pennrose Senior Developer Karmen Cheung before the Board of Alders.
A national affordable housing developer’s bid to convert the long-vacant former Strong School on Grand Avenue into at least 50 new apartments took another big step forward, as alders endorsed rezoning and selling the city-owned property for $500,000.
Up next at the former Long Wharf Theatre (clockwise from top left): INSA model smoking INSA pre-rolled joint; theater's former sign on Sargent Dr.; INSA cannabis chocolates; theater's former home in the Food Terminal.
The main stage of the ex-Long Wharf Theatre on Sargent Drive could see cannabis curious customers shopping for weed chocolates and pre-rolled joints by as early as December — according to a newly disclosed 10-year dispensary lease.
Ms. Colon's 2nd grade classroom takes home the John C. Daniels first place March Madness prize.
How does an elementary school more than halve its chronic absenteeism rate, down to 25 percent, in a year?
John C. Daniels School leaders had one answer for City Hall public-education watchdogs: supplement district-wide support services with a series of homeroom attendance contests that get kids to cheer on one another for showing up to class.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 24, 2023 2:44 pm
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On the job at a Chapel Street construction site.
A city plumbing inspector is rising the ranks to become New Haven’s next top building official — as the department he’ll run continues to struggle to hire enough inspectors to meet the demands of the city’s construction boom for sub-suburban pay.
The Board of Alders Finance Committee heard over 50 last-minute pitches for more funding for these critical needs as they wrap up their review of next year’s city budget.
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Laura Glesby and Thomas Breen |
Apr 21, 2023 3:37 pm
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Myra Smith: "Even those who have affordable housing are living in deplorable conditions."
Around a hundred education, climate, library, transit, and housing advocates sat through hours of public testimony on Thursday night.
A resounding call for more affordable housing and better housing code enforcement filled the Board of Alders’ chambers, as roughly 100 community members gathered for a final round of public testimony on next fiscal year’s proposed city budget.
Lifetime parks commission members Carl Babb, David Belowsky ...
... and Hector Torres.
David Belowsky, Carl Babb, and Hector Torres haven’t yet figured out the secret to living forever.
If they do find that key to immortality, they’d likely be able to stay on the parks commission for just as long — even if the city does wind up dropping the board’s longstanding, and mysterious, lifetime appointments.
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Laura Glesby |
Apr 21, 2023 8:43 am
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A LEAP production of the Nutcracker this past winter.
A local youth tutoring and recreation nonprofit took another step closer to remaining in charge of the recently-resurrected Q House community center as alders endorsed a contract that could last 10 more years.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Apr 20, 2023 9:16 am
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A rendering of the Roger Road home and proposed detached ADU.
A Westville homeowner got the go-ahead to convert a two-car garage into housing for his aging father — after applying for zoning relief to raise the building’s roof and responding publicly to a neighbor’s concerns about property values and personal privacy.
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Amanda Watts, Jessica Stamp and Luke Melonakos-Harrison |
Apr 18, 2023 2:18 pm
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LCI's Javier Ortiz on a recent housing code inspection.
If Mayor Elicker wants to improve public health and safety in New Haven, he must invest in stronger housing code enforcement in this year’s budget and increase tenant oversight of the Livable City Initiative (LCI).
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Thomas Breen and Nora Grace-Flood |
Apr 14, 2023 1:59 pm
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Mayor Justin Elicker and Police Chief Karl Jacobson Friday.
(Updated) A 12-year veteran city employee turned herself in Friday after the mayor and police chief held a press conference announcing a warrant for her arrest for allegedly falsifying timesheets and stealing over $11,400 in overtime in her most recent role as a Building Department executive admin assistant.
