The aldermen said we needed to demonstrate to them that people care about the tax issue and we turned out 100 people. They promptly canceled the meeting after it started. Why couldn’t they deliberate about the cuts they want to make, the future cuts and savings?
Here is the press coverage:
Thank you to all of you who came. Please come to the rescheduled meeting and bring some friends and neighbors.
Finance Committee
City of New Haven
Meeting Agenda
165 Church Street
New Haven, CT 06510
(203) 946-6483 (phone)
(203) 946-7476 (fax)
cityofnewhaven.com
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:00 PM Aldermanic Chambers
Aldermanic Notice - New Haven
The Finance Committee will hold a workshop on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, at 6:00 P.M, in the
Aldermanic Chambers, 165 Church St., New Haven, to hear testimony from City Departments
concerning their budget requests for FY 2008-2009. These departments are;
Registrar of Voters
Board of Education
Chapel West Special Service District
Whalley Avenue Special Service District
Town Green Special Service District
Corporation Counsel
Fair Rent Commission
Community Services Administration
Department of Public Health
Department of Elderly Services
Department of Youth Services
Economic Development Administration
Subsidies (Shubert Theater, Tweed/New Haven Airport, Grove Street Garage, Pilot Pen)
City Plan Commission
Small Business Initiative
Department of Transportation, Traffic & Parking
Commission on Equal Opportunity
Livable City Initiative
Office of Building Inspection & Enforcement
These items are filed with the City Clerk and may be inspected at Room 202, 200 Orange St.,
New Haven. Per order: Yusuf I. Shah, Chair. Attest: Ron Smith, City Clerk.
If you need a disability-related accommodation, please call three business days in advance
946-8122 (voice) or 946-8582 (TTY).
City of New Haven Page 1 Printed on 3/31/2008
The detailed line item forms are now available for download (6.1 MB). These detail what each department is spending money on.
Our latest doc on questions mentioned the Fire Department and it was regarding the Police department.
It should read:
2. Police Services. Contract reserve of $900,000 (p64). This is in addition to the existing contractual payments and signals to all that the City is prepared to increase wages by 5.3% in the next round of contract negotiations (Personnel costs in Police Services are $33.767 million so $900K over the new contract months in 2009 represents 5.3%. In the interest of transparency this item should be included in Dept 201 (Police Services)
Looking through the 2008-9 City of New Haven budget document, we found a number of questions and concerns as well as things that we didn’t understand. We forwarded this list to all 30 Alders today for their review. Please let us know if you find discrepancies, questions or concerns in the budget and we will forward them along with ours.
See our list of Questions & Concerns.
We have updated the budget recommendations document we released previously. We tried to simplify the process by listing the changes on pages 23 & 24 of the new document. We hope to save you some time in finding the updates in this manner. We continue to welcome the outpouring of recommendations and comments from readers.
See the new version here.
Read this article about the effects of taxes on migration inside the United States.
Unfortunately, its not too early to begin thinking about the next Budget Cycle (2008-2009). We are soliciting ideas for what you think represents Financial Responsibility in New Haven. Do you have spending cuts, new programs, or revenue generation ideas? Please send them to us at the email address at the bottom of the page. We will be submitting a formal recommendation from NHCAN to the BOA once our ideas are compiled into this year’s proposal.
Know Who’s Representing You. Meet Your Aldermanic Candidates!
Two Democratic aldermen face off against their Green Party challengers
in a candidates’ debate.
Place: Institute Library, 847 Chapel St. (near Church Street)
Time: Thursday, Nov. 1 at 6:30 p.m.
Hosted by La Voz Hispana, your Spanish newspaper and the New Haven Independent, your source for local news at www.newhavenindependent.org .
The debate includes:
Ward 7 candidates Democrat Frances “Bitsie” Clark and Green Daniel Sumrall
Ward 10 candidates Democrat Ed Mattison and Green Allan Brison
Questions will be posed by reporters from the New Haven Register, New Haven Advocate and the New Haven Independent. Debate will be moderated by Paul Bass.
The debate is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!
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