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Info-Sharing Pact Advances
by | Feb 23, 2024 12:18 pm | Comments (1)
Alders voted to make it easier to share data on older homes with lead paint that pose a threat to children’s health.
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City Seeking 2nd Electric Garbage Truck
by | Feb 22, 2024 12:56 pm | Comments (11)
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New Haven's electric garbage truck #2?
The fleet of trucks keeping New Haven clean could soon get a little bit cleaner itself, if a state grant supporting electric vehicles comes through.
3 Hill/Downtown Projects Advance
by | Feb 21, 2024 6:21 pm | Comments (6)
Hill Alder Carmen Rodriguez: The Hill's happening.
Two affordable housing developments are a step closer to materializing in the Hill, along with the nearby revival of the old Coliseum site, thanks to approvals from the Board of Alders.
City Hires New "Resilience" Chief
by | Feb 21, 2024 11:57 am | Comments (7)
Tirzah Kemp.
New Haven has a new “community resilience” chief and will soon have a new tax collector.
91 Shelton Deal: Tenants Can Stay
by | Feb 8, 2024 4:02 pm | Comments (14)
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You may stay? Musicians at 91 Shelton.
Developers returned to the City Plan Commission with a promise: If they get permission to transform a Shelton Avenue industrial building into self-storage units, the artists currently working there can stay.
Residency Rethink Starts With "Incumbents"
by | Feb 7, 2024 12:17 pm | Comments (34)
Rush-Kittle: Seeks OK to live officially in Rocky Hill.
Alders voted to advance a proposal to ease residency requirements for top city officials — but just current ones, at least for now.
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State Of The City Meets State Of The World
by | Feb 5, 2024 10:28 pm | Comments (88)
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Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers to protesters... for 30 minutes: "I will meet with you afterwards."
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Inside the board chambers.
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A mayor’s vision of a booming city clashed with protesters’ vision of a world on fire — as pro-Palestinian activists held up the annual “State of the City” address in City Hall for half an hour on Monday night.
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Elicker: Ceasefire Resolution
"Simplifies A Complex Issue"
by | Feb 5, 2024 9:07 pm | Comments (12)
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It didn’t “concern” Mayor Justin Elicker that protesters shouted down his annual “State of the City” address Monday night, he said.
“I am a little bit concerned about the dialogue,” he said. “I don’t think it was the most productive way to have a conversation. I also understand the frustration.”
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New Affordable Housing Slated For Congress Ave.
by | Jan 26, 2024 11:04 am | Comments (9)
A rough sketch of what the building could look like.
A local developer is planning to build an affordable housing complex designed for seniors atop a vacant city lot in the Hill — with the hope that she could someday move in.
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5 Alders Bat 1.000
by | Jan 23, 2024 4:39 pm | Comments (18)
Alders with A+ attendance, clockwise from top left: Amy Marx, Troy Streater, Adam Marchand, Sal Punzo, and Richard Furlow.
Five alders wrapped up 2023 with a perfect attendance record at full Board of Alders meetings, according to a review of board records.
City Starts Reimagining Parks System
by | Jan 15, 2024 3:23 pm | Comments (29)
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Parks staffer Janice Parker, right, explains the department's current structure.
A public-private funding structure. A “superintendent of fields.” A department divided into geographical districts, each with a point person for neighbors to contact.
Those ideas are all on the table as the city moves forward with a plan to un-merge the Parks and Public Works Department.
Huggy Bear Hits The Halls
by | Jan 12, 2024 1:26 pm | Comments (10)
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Huggins helps a Cross student scan in for a summer job.
Ronald Huggins made his way through the Wilbur Cross High School hallways greeting students with handshakes and a “What’s up bro?”
And a pitch to enter the summer jobs pipeline.
Walker-Myers Reelected Board Prez
by | Jan 4, 2024 1:16 pm | Comments (12)
BOA President Tyisha Walker-Myers with Pro Tem Jeanette Morrison, following Wednesday's elections.
A freshly inaugurated Board of Alders elected Tyisha Walker-Myers to her fifth term as president in their first collective, and unanimous, vote.
Cops Get OK For New Drones
by | Jan 3, 2024 9:00 am | Comments (10)
Coming soon to a barricaded home near you: BRINC's depiction of its upgraded drone model.
New Haven SWAT teams will have an easier time communicating with barricaded people in tense situations once new drones arrive this year, thanks to a vote taken at a City Hall meeting Tuesday night.
Pause Urged On Union Station Rezoning
by | Jan 2, 2024 3:10 pm | Comments (47)
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A rendering of what a denser development (at left) could look like on the current "east lot" next to Union Station.
A Union Station rezoning proposal got a thumbs down — for now — from City Plan commissioners, amid concerns that it might not make sense to build so many new apartments next door to an active railyard.
New Alders Take Oath -- In Unison
by | Jan 1, 2024 5:44 pm | Comments (10)
Alders take the oath of office Monday afternoon.
A year after first taking an oath of office in a private swearing-in ceremony at City Hall, Ward 21 Alder Troy Streater stepped onto the stage of City Hall with 28 other alders for his first full-fledged inauguration.
Immigrants Press Mayor For "Sanctuary" Law
by | Dec 20, 2023 10:20 am | Comments (29)
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At Tuesday's ULA-hosted meetup at 200 Orange.
New Haveners who hail from Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, Chile, Honduras, and elsewhere across Latin America gathered downtown to deliver a message to the mayor: that their adopted home city should be a “sanctuary city” — not just by executive order, but by law.
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Alders OK Selling Bigelow Lot For $1
by and | Dec 18, 2023 9:15 am | Comments (15)
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198 River St.: Former factory, to be sold for $1.
The Elicker administration won approval to sell a vacant, contaminated waterfront industrial property in Fair Haven for $1 to a local builder and provide $400,000 in cleanup funds, to help develop the site of the now-demolished former Bigelow factory complex into a new 10,000 square-foot commercial/industrial building.
Next Steps Weighed After Marriage Reports To Feds
by | Dec 15, 2023 3:44 pm | Comments (15)
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Immigrant activists at a protest on Monday outside City Hall.
What happens when a city official reports your marriage to immigration authorities?
Immigration lawyers are working to make sense of that question as local families prepare for what could be years of scrutiny, uncertainty, and anxiety.
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Fearing Feds, Immigrants Ask For Protection
by | Dec 12, 2023 2:10 pm | Comments (29)
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Norma Rodriguez-Reyes, who officiated Erika's wedding: "The day of a marriage is one of the happiest days in their lives."
Three weeks after getting married, Erika found herself wondering whether her family was one of at least 78 couples that a city official had reported to federal immigration authorities.
“I am very afraid,” she said in Spanish.
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Lawsuit Seeks To Enforce Residency Requirements
by | Dec 12, 2023 9:06 am | Comments (36)
Clockwise: Dennis Serfilippi, Michael Gormany, Alex Pullen, and Justin Elicker.
A local financial consultant and recent Westville alder candidate is suing the city for keeping non-residents in New Haven’s top financial offices — and is pushing to push out the current controller and tax assessor in the name of improved municipal fiscal management and compliance with the city charter.
Mayor Justin Elicker has responded by pressing the importance of keeping the most qualified people in those jobs amid a shortage of applicants, and has denied that the city is violating the charter as his administration seeks to keep those finance roles filled.
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State Emails To City: "Report" "Suspicious" Immigrant Marriages
by | Dec 11, 2023 2:01 pm | Comments (26)
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Trish Clark: Now on leave for flagging 78 marriages in 3-month period to federal immigration authorities.
State DPH associate Katie Sehi emailed this guidance to Clark in February.
(Updated) A state employee told New Haven’s official responsible for maintaining marriage records to report “suspicious” marriage license applicants to federal immigration authorities.
The registrar replied that her office was “uncomfortable” issuing licenses to “numerous” couples — before reporting at least 78 marriage licenses for non-citizen immigrants in a three-month period to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Official Placed On Leave After Reporting "Questionable" Immigrant Marriages To Feds
by and | Dec 7, 2023 2:33 pm | Comments (40)
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Registrar of Vital Statistics Patricia Clark: "I've done nothing wrong."
(Updated) The city official responsible for maintaining marriage records has been placed on paid administrative leave as the Elicker administration investigates whether or not she violated a local executive order by reporting at least 73 marriages in a three-month period as “questionable” to federal immigration officials, on state guidance.
Mayor: New Haven Budget Benefits From Yale's 300 George Buy
by | Dec 7, 2023 11:29 am | Comments (55)
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Mayor Elicker: City will make more money in near term if Yale takes 300 George off tax rolls ...
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... because of city-Yale deal that requires university to pay portion of tax bills for 12 years after converting to tax-exempt.
Even if Yale does take the recently purchased med-tech complex at 300 George St. off the tax rolls, New Haven will bring in more revenue from that property over the next 13 years than if the university had never even bought it.
So argued Mayor Justin Elicker in an interview about Yale’s $139.6 million acquisition of the nine-story downtown lab-and-office building — and in defense of the near-term benefits of a key provision of a recently inked city-Yale deal.
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Advocates To City: Be Bold Again On Immigrant Rights
by | Dec 5, 2023 9:01 am | Comments (23)
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Kica Matos: Time to lead again.
Sixteen years after New Haven became the first city to issue a municipal ID card to city residents regardless of their citizenship status, advocates are calling on the city to once again lead the way in protecting immigrant rights — including by creating a new city Office of Immigrant Affairs.
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