Chief Alston directing response to 2018 K-2 poisonings on Green.
Fire Chief John Alston argued to a panel of alders weighing his reappointment that the change he has sought to make in his department was bound to be unpopular.
Firefighter union members agreed he’s unpopular — and countered that the change the department needs is in leadership, citing low morale and aging equipment.
New Haveners can see each other smile inside a store or office again without breaking the law starting on March 7, as city officials announced an upcoming partial end to an indoor mask mandate.
Health Director Bond: Pressed to hire candidate she didn't want.
The city plans to offer the vacant public health nursing director job to a candidate the city’s health director does not think is best for the role — after the Civil Service Commission, in a divided vote, forced the issue.
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Feb 22, 2022 3:47 pm
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Consultant's estimated timeline for police chief search.
The city will pay a California-based search firm up to $50,850 to spend the next three to four months conducting online meetings and interviews as it helps New Haven find a new permanent police chief.
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Feb 22, 2022 1:47 pm
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Dalal: Take time to do it right.
The start date for a pilot program of the Elicker Administration’s non-cop emergency response initiative has been pushed back yet again — as the city looks to sign on a subcontractor to train, employ, and supervise social workers and mental-health professionals to respond to certain 911 calls.
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Feb 21, 2022 5:18 pm
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At Hamden's High Bazaar. Proposed New Haven law would ban such "private marijuana vending events, cannabis trade shows or public cannabis events."
“High Bazaar” in New Haven? Not anytime soon.
That’s according to a newly proposed zoning update that would prohibit the types of weekly commercial cannabis parties that currently take place in Hamden — as part of a broader city effort to define where pot shops should and should not be allowed in the Elm City.
A planned new 176-unit apt. complex at Ashmun & Canal.
Plans for over 470 new apartments in the Hill, Science Park, and downtown won final approvals — as developers rushed to get five new-housing projects in before an “inclusionary zoning” start date later this week.
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Feb 16, 2022 1:03 pm
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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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Feb 15, 2022 3:40 pm
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Existing covered area (in red); proposed new expanded areas (in blue).
Alders fast-tracked a city plan to expand ShotSpotter to the far east and west sides of town, as part of a proposed four-year, $1.67 million deal to try to help police better respond soon after someone fires a gun.
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Feb 15, 2022 10:16 am
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Do-over Central: Outside 54 Meadow St. vax clinic.
Shaquan Browne thought he was fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as he prepared to head back to his home country of Guyana later this week.
Then he got a call from the city health department, letting him know that there was a problem with the last vaccine dose he received — and that he needed to come back to the clinic for another shot in the arm.
Mayor Elicker: 100s need new shots because of storage snafu.
The Elicker Administration is now recommending that some 650 people get re-vaccinated against Covid-19 because the previous doses they received from the city had been improperly stored.
Mayor Justin Elicker and Health Director Maritza Bond revealed that information Friday at a 4 p.m. press conference, and in a follow-up email press release sent out after 11 p.m.
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300-unit apartment complex under construction on Union Street in Wooster Square. Under proposed amendments to new law, buildings like these would have to set aside rent-capped apts for lower-income tenants.
The city’s new “inclusionary zoning” (IZ) law is likely heading back to the legislative mill to be amended in two months.
What does that mean for the version of the law set to take effect next week?
Mayor Justin Elicker has chosen a former top spokesperson for the Achievement First charter school network to serve as his new spokesperson at City Hall.
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Feb 7, 2022 9:22 pm
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Mayor Justin Elicker, with a sign language interpreter, giving his 2022 State of the City address on Monday night.
Back in the Aldermanic Chamber for his first in-person, live-audience annual address since the start of the pandemic, Mayor Justin Elicker extolled a “strengthening” city that has been bolstered by a sudden surfeit of state, federal, and Yale cash.
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Brackeen: Time to try UBI.
Darryl Brackeen says New Haven has a way to help working-class families get their child tax credits back — and test out a longer-term poverty-fighting idea in the process.
Attorney Jim Segaloff: Westville has potential to become "a significantly vital and vibrant community."
Another 144 new apartments are planned for Westville Village, according to a rezoning application recently submitted to the Board of Alders by the owners of an existing three-story office building on Blake Street.
The final numbers are in: New Haven’s taxable grand list grew by over 32 percent — to a whopping total of nearly $8.9 billion — at the end of a citywide revaluation cycle that saw the local housing market overflowing with cash.
At least for those buying, selling, and investing in real estate.
New Elicker Administration appointees. Clockwise from top left: Fair Rent's Wildaliz Bermúdez, Labor Relations' Wendella Ault Battey, aldermanic liaison Barbara Montalvo, and City Plan's Laura Brown.
A new leadership crew at City Hall came into focus Friday, as Mayor Justin Elicker announced appointments for the directors of City Plan, Fair Rent, and Labor Relations, as well as for a liaison to the Board of Alders.
300-unit apartment complex under construction on Union Street in Wooster Square. Under new law, buildings like these would have to set aside affordable apts. Or not?
Uh oh.
That was the prevailing sentiment Wednesday night when City Plan Commissioners realized that — perhaps — the city’s new “inclusionary zoning” law may not do what it’s supposed to do.
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LCI on the job on Shelton Avenue.
A plan to require limited-liability-company landlords to provide the city with the name and contact information for an actual, live, flesh-and-blood human being — and not just corporate names stacked on top of one another — won a preliminary vote, as the city strives to make it easier to get a hold of property owners during maintenance emergencies.
On the way out: City Plan Director Aicha Woods, Fair Rent's Otis Johnson, Elderly Services chief Migdalia Castro.
Through a mix of department-head retirements and non-reappointments, the Elicker Administration will soon have a host of new faces in — and former Harp appointees out of — various leadership positions in City Hall.
Among the agencies to receive new leaders are the City Plan Department, the Fair Rent Commission, and the Elderly Services Division.
