Reward construction firms with a history of hiring women and Black and Latinx workers. Hold companies that fail to meet those goals accountable. And create more of an apprenticeship “pipeline.”
Those and other ideas emerged Tuesday night at the latest task force session on improving city affirmative action laws for contractors and construction workers.
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At a fire in Fair Haven.
The Board of Alders vote 29 – 1 transferring $2.9 million towards firefighter overtime — with the sole dissenting voice warning that such a move might hurt the city’s long-term efforts to control a part of the city budget that has been consistently struggled under deficits.
Elicker, at a snowstorm presser on Middletown Ave. Tuesday morning.
In his annual “State of the City” address, Mayor Justin Elicker outlined his vision for how to curb crime, promote public safety, boost affordable housing, and stabilize the local budget in the year (and years) to come.
“Grey” area represents fixed costs that, according to mayor, can’t be cut.
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Mayor Elicker: Crunch “nearly impossible to fix.”
As of Thursday, next fiscal year’s projected city deficit looks $25 million bleaker than it did on Wednesday, thanks to a slate of new estimates and recommendations regarding how the city funds its pensions.
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Attorney Bowie: “Important” to give people “faith in the city.”
Eckman: Quality follows ethics.
Alan H. Bowie, Jr. and Adrienne Eckman are eager to get to work reviving New Haven’s Board of Ethics. They’ve passed the first hurdle toward getting the chance.
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Jan 22, 2021 11:35 am
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Renderings of the future ConnCAT Place on Dixwell.
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Dixwell Plaza today.
“This is the time for Dixwell.”
With those words of praise and anticipation, alders moved ahead a plan to transform Dixwell Plaza into a mixed-use hub that would employ up to 550 people a year and generate up to $50 million in annual economic activity.
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Jan 20, 2021 10:54 am
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Seniors lined up to vote at Bella Vista, one complex targeted for vaccination “strike team”.
Strike teams of city nurses plan to bring the Covid-19 vaccine directly to homebound seniors, as the health department proceeds with the state’s phased rollout of pandemic-era inoculations and the elderly navigate tech and transportation challenges to receiving their shots.
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Jan 13, 2021 6:30 pm
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Dr. Tamiko Jackson-McArthur gets vaccinated on Dec. 28 at the city health department’s clinic.
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The city has vaccinated 2,190 eligible healthcare workers and first responders so far out of its Meadow Street clinic — and is preparing for a broader immunization push next week, as the state transitions into Phase 1B.
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Jan 12, 2021 10:39 am
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Chief Alston: Current OT budget “never was” enough.
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A recent history of NHFD OT.
Fire Chief John Alston came to the alders with a familiar plea: Firefighter overtime is well over budget, and — yet again — in desperate need of millions of dollars in life support.
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Jan 8, 2021 11:34 am
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Spending is high, funding is low and the future of the pandemic is uncertain.
Despite these challenges, Bethel First Selectman Matt Knickerbocker is charting his town’s path through 2021. He shared his expectations for the year on the Municipal Voice, a co-production between the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and WNHH.
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Jan 5, 2021 2:38 pm
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Monday night’s Board of Alders virtual meeting.
The Board of Alders unanimously signed off on a four-year, $322,142 human resources software contract that the Board of Education claims will improve the school system’s recruitment of Black teachers and will streamline the onboarding of new employees.
Michelle Duprey, who has advocated for disabled people for more than two decades as director of the city’s Department of Services for Persons with Disabilities, has taken on a new role: deputy corporation counsel.
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Dec 22, 2020 2:23 pm
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Housekeeper Everlana Allen with fellow workers at a protest outside the Omni earlier this year.
With promises to combat racism as a public health crisis and protect the economic livelihoods of working-class New Haveners, alders unanimously approved a new “recall law” that requires local hotels give laid-off former employees first dibs at returning to their old jobs.
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Dec 22, 2020 2:19 pm
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The Board of Alders granted unanimous final approval to a new teachers union contract that trades a pay freeze this year for no layoffs or medical premium increases over the next three.
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Dec 22, 2020 12:37 pm
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Public health board appointees Gregg Gonsalves and Alice Forrester.
Yale infectious disease expert Gregg Gonsalves and local mental health clinic leader Alice Forrester won unanimous votes of approval to help guide New Haven’s ongoing response to the pandemic and other public health challenges as members of the city’s Board of Public Health Commissioners
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Dec 22, 2020 10:56 am
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The current raised intersection at Hazel Street and the Farmington Canal. More to come in 2021, pending grant approval.
Strollers, joggers, rollerbladers and cyclists may soon have seven fewer reasons to worry about cars slamming into them on the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail.
Yesenia Rivera overwhelmingly won reappointment to serve another four years on the Board of Education, with a diverse array of supporters praising her work ethic and commitment to local public schools — and a handful of critics slamming her summertime vote to resume in-person classes during the pandemic.
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Dec 21, 2020 3:20 pm
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Serena Neal-Sanjurjo, at a Newhallville management team meeting before the pandemic.
Serena Neal-Sanjurjo, who promoted inclusive and affordable homeownership as the former chief of New Haven’s neighborhood anti-blight agency, has been tapped to serve as an inaugural member of the city’s new Affordable Housing Commission.
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Dec 17, 2020 3:15 pm
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One of the entrances to 19 Wheeler St. in the Annex.
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Wednesday night’s City Plan Commission virtual meeting.
Wet trash from the suburbs will hurt local children with asthma, “frail” Fair Haven seniors, and Quinnipiac River oysters struggling to survive.
A host of city health officials, alders, environmentalists, Fair Haven neighbors, and local business owners offered those warnings during the latest virtual public hearing about the controversial planned expansion of an Annex waste transfer station.
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Dec 16, 2020 2:50 pm
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Mayor Elicker at Wednesday’s snowstorm presser.
A citywide parking ban during the coming snowstorm goes into effect Wednesday at 9 p.m. Wednesday — with tow trucks at the ready to pull away violating vehicles, including on narrow streets.
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Dec 16, 2020 2:35 pm
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Julio Perez and his fellow public-works crew members are ready for the blizzard predicted to hit New Haven starting tonight. They have the payloader and the sand to show it.
