Ward 1 is not the only New Haven district to feature a Yale student as a candidate in the aldermanic race. Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 said Tuesday that he will challenge Ward 10 Alderman Allan Brison for his seat, which represents many graduate students who live in the East Rock neighborhood.
The Board of Aldermen on Tuesday approved a proposed ordinance that will end what it terms “unfair discrimination” against former convicts on government employment forms.
Trumbull College second cook Frank Douglass Jr. will run for Ward 2 alderman again, Douglass told the News.
After a mix-up in planning caused representatives of the Elm City Resident Card program to miss Wednesday’s Finance Committee in regards to their request that the committee approve the application for and acceptance of $150,000 in private funds to support the program, members delayed the vote.
Changes to public-school dining policies have yet to be implemented successfully, a member of the Food Policy Council told members of the Board of Aldermen’s Human Resources Committee on Tuesday evening.
City Hall grudgingly offered new cuts to the now-$456-million budget after a state aid package that Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and many aldermen had lobbied vigorously for fell through last week.
By early next week, New Haven aldermen should have a better idea of how the city’s hope to receive new Payment In Lieu Of Taxes funds fits in with the state’s larger fiscal situation.
As activists worldwide are stepping up their criticism of China in the run-up to this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing, the New Haven Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Monday night to approve street closures for an April 26 protest of China’s alleged human-rights violations that will temporarily shut down several streets around the New Haven Green.
The Board of Aldermen’s Public Safety Committee instructed the New Haven Police Department on Thursday night to provide the committee with quarterly presentations on officers’ use of Tasers in an effort to assuage community members’ potential concerns about the weapons.
Every dollar, every copy and every cell phone holds significance for city funding distributions, as the Board of Aldermen is scrambling to make up a nearly $10-million shortfall between Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s proposed budget and the amount of money likely to end up in the final budget — the result of the mayor’s unjustifiably optimistic assumptions about funding to be...
As New Haven aldermen discussed the details of the mayor’s budget proposal Monday evening, a possible $10 million shortfall was at the back of their minds — as was a proposal to allow New Haven to implement a so-called “penny tax.”
The need for additional low-key and safe recreational facilities in New Haven was foremost on the agenda for the Aldermanic Youth Committee’s meeting Wednesday night.
