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Call Justin Elicker at 203-500-2969
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010Lets put the pressure on Justin Elicker, BOA Finance Committee Member. Let him know how you feel about the budget or how a 9-20% tax and rent increase will effect your life. Be nice, but be clear and ask him to join over 1000 people who signed the petition.
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10-D | Justin Elicker
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192 Willow Street | 06511-2531 | H:203-500-2969 |
How Will Your Alderperson Vote? Check Back update: Tuesday, May 18
Monday, May 10th, 2010Updated
FINANCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS to vote on Mayors PROPOSED Budget Tuesday, May 18, 7pm City Hall.
Shah (Chair), Clark (Vice-Chair), Perez, Goldfield, Jackson-Brooks, Castro, Lemar, Morehead, Elicker, Bauer, O’Sullivan-Best
See how they voted in past budget cycles
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ADDRESS | ZIP CODE | PHONE |
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4-D | Andrea Jackson-Brooks
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102 DeWitt Street | 06519-2131 | H:203-776-0502 |
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5-D | Jorge Perez
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24 Cassius Street | 06519-2313 | H:203-562-4373 |
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7-D | Frances T. Clark
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320 Audobon Court | 06511-1203 | H:203-772-4455 |
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9-D |
Roland Lemar
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6 Eld Street | 06511 | H:203-507-7869 |
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10-D | Justin Elicker
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192 Willow Street | 06511-2531 | H:203-500-2969 |
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11-I | Maureen O’Sullivan-Best | 54 Foxon Street | 06513-2320 | H:203-467-9783 |
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14-D |
Stephanie Bauer |
55 East Pearl Street | 06513-4309 | H:203-785-0065 |
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16-D | Migdalia Castro
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203 Saltonstall Avenue-Court Cottage | 06513-4250 | H:203-777-6835 |
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22-D |
Greg Morehead
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13 Frances Hunter Drive | 06511-3604 | H:203-507-7766 |
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23-D | Yusuf I. Shah | 59 Gilbert Avenue | 06511-5331 | H:203-507-7679 |
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29-D | Carl Goldfield
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25 Roydon Road | 06511-2806 | H:203-782-2064 W:203-787-9222 |
Alderman Sergio Rodriguez Makes Case for a Smaller Budget
Friday, May 7th, 2010Alderman Sergio Rodriguez makes a case for a smaller budget in this letter to the BOA Finance Committee. Is your Alderperson onboard? Ask your Alderperson to sign our petition to reduce the budget by 10%. We have a hard copy of the petition circulating asking Alderpersons to sign the petition. Ask your Alderperson to sign.
Thank You
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Thank You
We had a very successful turn out last evening and even won over the people turned out by the Mayor. Lets keep up the pressure to have the Board of Aldermen send the budget back to the Mayor.
Online Petition – Cut The Budget By 10%
Friday, March 19th, 2010A Petition to the Members of the Board of Alders Finance Committee
The undersigned residents and taxpayers of New Haven wish to register our opposition to Mayor DeStefano’s proposed 2010-2011 budget. The $670,448,590 proposal is a large one and calls for a city-wide 9–11% tax increase, regardless of taxpayers’ ability to carry this burden. This is unacceptable.
We agree with the Mayor that these times are not normal. We disagree emphatically, however, with the Mayor’s proposed responses to these events. The Mayor’s proposal does little to attack the real problem, which is rapidly escalating costs, well beyond the rate of inflation. We refuse to be deflected from this focus.
In normal times, those who want work can generally find it. In normal times, wages and salaries increase, real estate values rise, the stock market expands – and we can support tax increases. But these are not normal times. In households throughout New Haven, families are re-learning how to “do without”. In New Haven’s businesses, and in our churches, colleges, and universities, responsible officials are finding ways to cut costs – not to control their growth, but to cut them. We affirm that, in these decidedly not normal times, New Haven’s city government must do the same. As City Alders, you have the authority to demand changes in the proposed budget and not simply accept it with minor changes As those who voted you into office, we deserve your protection and support.
We urge you to request that every department head identify ways to cut their actual expenses– not their proposals, but their current budgets – by 10% and to submit such reductions in a revised budget proposal. These are competent professionals who know how best to do this. They alone know how the dollar is spent and which activities provide the least value.
As an outside group we cannot presume to dictate where those cuts must be. We are confident, however, that competent professionals in every department know best how to cut 10% from their expenses with the least pain to New Haven’s quality of life and critical City services. Let them use furloughs, freeze hiring, wages and salaries, health care benefits, or simply turn the lights off earlier. Let them identify the ways to achieve the 10% reduction. We expect that some services will be sacrificed, and we are reluctantly ready to deal with that. We are not ready for yet another tax increase.
We know that what we propose is difficult. But these are not normal times. We urge you to send the Mayor’s proposal back and demand accountability from each and every department throughout this city. We love this city. We want this city to remain a great place to live for all.
To sign our petition to cut 10% of the budget: http://www.petitiononline.com/NewHaven/petition.html
Or if you want to print out the petition and help gather signatures. Return it to Jeffrey Kerekes, 43 Lyon Street, New Haven, CT 06511 203-676-0880
New Aldermanic Committees Announced
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008The new arrangement of Alderpersons has been announced, you can see the full line up here. The finance committee members are below:
Shah (Chair)
Silverman (Vice-Chair)
Perez
Goldfield
Jackson-Brooks
Clark
Castro
Rhodeen
Sandman
