Updated: Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 1:37pm
Aldermen and New Haven residents gathered at a marathon hearing Wednesday night to hear and discuss the mayor's newly revised — and $10-million-smaller — city budget. 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. The...
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. Board of Aldermen President Carl Goldfield and a handful of colleagues have spent the last two Wednesdays — and plan to spend next Wednesday, as well — lobbying state legislators in...
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 protest —...
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. The directive came during a meeting at which the seven members of the committee prepared a final...
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...
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.” Several aldermen have said in recent weeks that a 1-percent increase in the sales tax would likely eliminate the gap in the mayor’s...
New Haven youth may soon have new places to socialize in a safe setting. 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. Members of the aldermanic Youth Council, concerned New Haven residents and student representatives from three New Haven high...
At the beginning of Monday’s Board of Aldermen meeting, President Carl Goldfield took a minute to ask the aldermen to be like Peter Pan and “think happy thoughts.” But by the end of the meeting, there were few happy thoughts as the Board finished up its debates over setting a pay range for the new police chief and creating a municipal waste-management authority...
Although it was not originally part of the agenda, the search for a New Haven Police Department chief dominated aldermanic discussions on Wednesday night. At the joint Finance and Public Safety Committee meeting — the first of two meetings last night at City Hall — the city’s chief administrative officer Robert Smuts ’01 recapped the progress of the police chief...
Last night’s Board of Alderman meeting lasted seven minutes — perhaps for the last time in the near future. Up until now, most of the new and pressing concerns have been winding their way through committees and hearings, but beginning with the board’s next meeting, the body as a whole will finally have to tackle these same issues — whether setting the limit on...
Yale students alarmed by recent shootings in surrounding neighborhoods may soon be asked to join other community members in being more proactive about ensuring their own safety. In the wake of three shootings in the city last Monday night, Ward 2 Alderwoman Gina Calder ’03 EPH ’08 and Ward 22 Alderman Greg Morehead called on Friday for increased cooperation between...
Ward 22 Alderman Greg Morehead’s alarm went off at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, only hours after he had arrived home from New York City. After waking his children and dropping them off at school, he was on the road again, headed for another long day of work. But Morehead is not the typical commuting dad. For the past week, his 12-hour-plus workdays have not been spent staring...
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