City Budget Director Gormany and Mayor Elicker on Wednesday.
Revenue summary for mayor's proposed FY24 budget.
Many New Haveners would see taxes increase again — and the city’s budget grow by less than the rate of inflation — according to a $662.7 million general fund budget newly proposed by Mayor Justin Elicker.
Roughly five inches of snow fell on New Haven Monday night and Tuesday morning, and 130 cars were ticketed thanks to the now-lifted overnight parking ban.
NHPS's Ekaterina Barkhatova, Rosalyn Díaz-Ortiz, Michael Soares, Kristin Bengtson Mendoza, Keisha Redd-Hannans, and Pedro Mendia-Landa, at City Hall.
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New Haven public school leaders pitched alders on doubling the district’s number of ESOL teachers and adding 18 more multilingual coaches — at a combined annual cost of $4.14 million — while mapping out classroom staffing needs at a time when more and more students enter city schools speaking a language other than English.
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Feb 24, 2023 10:42 am
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The Mandy-controlled two-story house at 698 Dixwell.
An affiliate of the local megalandlord Mandy Management is looking to add one more apartment to a two-story Newhallville house — rather than build six new rental units or bring in a commercial tenant.
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Feb 23, 2023 9:51 am
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Yale's current Chemical Safety Building at 350 Edwards: To be demolished, according to Yale's Science Hill development plans.
Alders granted a needed parking-related approval for Yale’s proposal to knock down and construct a new chemical safety building off of Prospect and Edwards Streets — as the university moves ahead in the early stages of a broader plan for building up Science Hill.
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Feb 22, 2023 4:48 pm
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Educators rally outside City Hall for full school funding last March.
City teachers will be getting a 15 percent pay raise over the next three years — while a new math-and-literacy tutoring initiative will be getting $3 million in federal aid to get off the ground — thanks to two recent education-focused votes by the Board of Alders.
Newly re-confirmed Board of Ed VP Matt Wilcox at Tuesday's alder meeting.
Board of Education Vice President Matthew Wilcox won another four-year term on the city’s school board — after alders debated how to assess his leadership over a school system grappling with low attendance, a reading instruction overhaul, and severe teacher shortages.
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Feb 20, 2023 11:40 am
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New Parks & Public Works Deputy Stephen Hladun at recent parks commission meeting.
A veteran of Bridgeport’s parks and rec department is now New Haven’s top parks official, after stepping into the role of deputy director in the city’s Department of Parks & Public Works.
Chief of Staff Matteson and Corp Counsel King: "Let's move into a four-year term."
“In New Haven, it seems like there’s an election basically every six months.”
City Chief of Staff Sean Matteson offered those words of endless-campaign caution as he and the city’s top attorney pressed for mayors and alders to see their terms in office bumped up from two to four years each.
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Feb 17, 2023 10:01 am
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263 Dixwell Ave.: One of 2 Ocean-owned properties the city plans to sell to Beulah.
The Elicker Administration is one step closer to buying and selling two two-family homes on Dixwell Avenue — so that a nonprofit can maintain the currently megalandlord-held properties as rentals.
Should a nearly $5 million federal grant fund a couple dozen affordable housing units, or more humane infrastructure to help the city’s unsheltered residents survive the perils of living outdoors?
Elicker Administration staff pitched a plan to alders on how to use that money to chip away at the root cause of housing insecurity. They were countered by a group of activists and nonprofit leaders calling for more attention to the immediate, life-or-death needs of New Haveners living outside.
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Feb 16, 2023 3:52 pm
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An illustration of the upcoming Stone Street senior housing.
A Branford-based developer won permission to replace four single-family homes with 65 new apartments in Beaver Hills, following site plan approval for a project seeking to bring more income-restricted housing for the area’s elderly.
Time to reset the clock? The Edgewood Park sundial.
A new group of citywide parks advocates is calling on Mayor Justin Elicker to up his administration’s care for open spaces — including by reinstating a stand-alone department for parks and trees.
Hillhouse teacher Raven Mitchell: "We take on more than what's in our contracts."
Frustrated by years of working extra jobs to support her family, Fana Hickinson nearly left the teaching job she loves at New Haven Academy — until a draft union contract promised her a salary increase that convinced her to stay.
Shafiq Abdussabur at Thursday's public hearing: "Not amused" by mayor's pitch to drop residency requirements for some city dept. heads.
Leaders of the city’s teachers union called for the school board to have two additional elected members — and for the mayor to be stripped of his ed-board voting powers.
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Feb 9, 2023 4:02 pm
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The former Church Street South property, above and below.
Elicker (at bottom left): "Disappointed & frustrated." Northland's Gottesdiener (bottom right): City's version "inaccurate at best, a lie at worst."
Five years after bulldozers demolished the 30-building Church Street South community across from Union Station, the land remains a fenced-off wasteland of prime real estate with no signs of progress on plans to rebuild.
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Feb 9, 2023 8:53 am
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Monday's FRAC meeting, complete with active public-attendee chat.
City government still has 112 full-time non-cop vacancies — while the city’s revived fiscal watchdog commission still has three empty seats — as the Elicker Administration continues to struggle to fill job posts so that overtime doesn’t spike and current workers aren’t overly stretched.
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Feb 6, 2023 9:39 pm
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Mayor Elicker: "This year, in 2023, I’m here to report the state of our city is bright and New Haven is on the move."
While low test scores and attendance rates speak to profound challenges in New Haven’s public schools, the daily perseverance of dedicated staff and a curriculum overhaul are just some of the reasons for hope.
Mayor Justin Elicker offered that message in his annual State of the City speech before the Board of Alders on Monday evening, during which he declared that New Haven’s status is “bright.”
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Jan 31, 2023 3:48 pm
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Charter Revision Commission counsel Steve Mednick: Prioritize clarity; "Avoid the culture of disregard or paralysis."
New Haven’s once-a-decade process of revising the city’s foundational document officially began — as the 2023 Charter Revision Commission received a crash course from an experienced municipal-government attorney on the power balances and scope limitations it’ll have to navigate in the weeks and months ahead.
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Jan 30, 2023 4:48 pm
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Clinton Avenue literacy coach Marilyn Ciarleglio (center) with NHPS Asst. Supt. Keisha Redd-Hannans.
Clinton Avenue School literacy coach Marilyn Ciarleglio has spent the past week getting a “refreshing” taste of a new K‑3 reading curriculum that has a Spanish-language component that’s been a gamechanger in helping teach multilingual students to read.
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Jan 27, 2023 10:02 am
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At a 2019 Financial Review & Audit Commission (FRAC) meeting at City Hall.
The following opinion essay was submitted by Dennis Serfilippi, a certified public accountant who works as a chief financial officer consulting for early- and late-stage technology companies.
New Haven is flush with $188 million in funding — $115 million from the feds, $50 million from the state, $10 million from Yale, and a $13 million tax increase.
Kim Harris (center) & students, speaking up for tutoring plan.
The Elicker Administration’s bid to spend $3 million in federal aid on a new math and literacy tutoring plan moved ahead — against a backdrop of questions and concerns around how exactly the city will find the hundreds of volunteers needed to make this program work.
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Jan 25, 2023 1:44 pm
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Karen DuBois-Walton with Democracy Fund chief Aly Heimer in 2021.
The board that oversees New Haven’s public-financing program has officially submitted a suite of proposed changes that would allow candidates running for city clerk, and not just for mayor, to tap into the clean-money effort — and that would reduce the amount of money that wealthy self-funders can put into their own campaigns and still participate and receive public dollars.
