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Appeal Brings Fair Rent To Court THE INNER-CITY NEWS - March 24, 2021 - March 30, 2021

by THOMAS BREEN

New Haven I ndependent

A Wooster Square woman facing a $150 monthly rent hike has appealed to state court — putting on trial, so to speak, the way New Haven’s Fair Rent Commission handles landlord-tenant disputes.

That renter is Pamela Parisi.

The 66-year-old Lyon Street resident has been engaged in a years-long housing fight with her Guilford-based landlord, Marc Nadeau.

On Jan. 4, Parisi’s attorneys—J.L. Pottenger, Jr. and Richard Tenenbaum of the Yale Law School’s Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, along with several student interns from that program—filed an administrative appeal in state housing court of a recent decision issued by the Fair Rent Commission.

That’s the city body charged with resolving rent disputes between landlords and tenants.

In the administrative appeal, the tenant’s attorneys allege that the Fair Rent Commission failed to follow a number of city laws before issuing a decision in December that Parisi’s rent should increase to $1,200 per month. Parisi and her attorneys argue that the city commission

rushed through the December hearing without honoring the tenant’s legal rights to present her full testimony and evidence and to cross-examine her landlord.

The appeal also claims that the city commission failed to swear in witnesses and take all testimony under oath, as is required under city law; that it failed to consider written submissions and evidence provided at hearing when resolving the dispute; and that it refused to let Parisi’s attorneys argue their case that the appropriate legal standard of review for Fair Rent cases should be whether or not the rent increase is “fair and equitable,” not “harsh and unconscionable,” when applied to elderly or disabled tenants.

“The commission’s procedures and order violate Ms. Parisi’s due process rights and are arbitrary, unlawful, and otherwise an abuse of discretion,” Parisi’s attorneys assert.

They call on the state court to invalidate the commission’s rent increase order, to remand the proceedings back to the commission for “additional fact finding and entry of a new order,” and to instruct the commission to follow the various laws and suggestions that the tenant’s attorneys say were broken.

Schools CFO Phil Penn Resigns

CHRISTOPHER PEAK PRE-PANDEMIC PHOTO CFO Phillip Penn.

Phillip Penn plans to leave his position as New Haven Public Schools’ chief financial officer this summer for a similar role in Hartford Public Schools.

Superintendent Iline Tracey sent this announcement to the Board of Education and members of the press on Tuesday evening.

The Hartford Board of Education approved Penn’s hire as chief financial officer on Tuesday as well.

“I will truly miss this level of expertise on my team,” Tracey wrote.

Penn’s last day would be June 15.

Since his hire in the fall of 2019, Penn has shepherded the district’s financial department through the Covid-19 crisis and the ensuing federal relief. When Chief Operating Officer Michael Pinto left the district in

November, he took on additional responsibilities with the facilities department.

Penn’s tenure has seen slim surpluses at the end of each year. School closures due to Covid-19, federal relief and school staff members forgoing raises all play a part in last summer’s surplus and the $775,351 surplus projected for this year.

Penn has also been involved in some controversies during his time in New Haven.

He requested a workplace harassment investigation of Board of Education member Darnell Goldson after Goldson implied that Penn was favoring white contractors.

Penn’s salary as chief financial officer of Hartford Public Schools would be $190,000 — $5,000 more than his starting salary with New Haven.

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Fair Rent Commission Executive Director Otis Johnson, at a 2019 hearing.

Fair Rent Commission Executive Director Otis Johnson did not respond to a request for comment by the publication time of this article. City Assistant Corporation Counsel Kevin Casini, who is representing the city in this state housing court case, declined to comment on the matter pending a ruling from state Superior Court Judge Claudia Baio.

“Rendering” Animal Fat Nadeau’s attorney, Steve Jacobs (pictured), did get to weigh in on the matter during a Tuesday afternoon virtual housing court hearing before Judge Baio.

Jacobs argued on Tuesday and in a motion to dismiss filed with the state court that Parisi’s appeal should be thrown out on the simple grounds that she and her attorneys waited too long to file it in the first place.

City law explicitly states that anyone looking to appeal a decision by the Fair Rent Commission may file such an appeal with state housing court “within 10 days after the rendering of the decision in question.”

“It’s not 10 days from when the notice is published,” Jacobs said. “It’s not 10 days from the date when it is mailed or received. It’s 10 days from when the decision is rendered.”

The law does not explicitly define “rendered.” A “common understanding” of that word—as expressed in case law and in dictionaries—should lead the court to find that “rendered” refers to when a decision is handed down and made apparent to both parties, Jacobs argued.

“You render fat at the time the animal is boiled,” he said. “You don’t render fat at some later time, when the fat arrives at the store or you bring the fat home to your house.

“Rendering happens when the decision is made, when it comes out of the mouth of

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DYLAN SLOAN PHOTO Parisi, outside Wooster Square apt.: Rent’s too damn high.

the person making the decision.”

According to that definition, he continued, the $150 rent increase decision was made during the Fair Rent Commission public hearing on Dec. 15.

“The plaintiff’s appeal was not filed until January 7, 2021,” he wrote in a memorandum supporting Nadeau’s motion to dismiss, “23 days after the rendering of the decision on the record, 17 days after the publication of the Notice of Finding, and 12 days after the purported date on which the written decision was received by plaintiff’s counsel.”

“The appeal was untimely,” Jacobs said remotely on Tuesday, “and the appeal should be dismissed.”

Alternate Math Adam Kinkley, a Yale Law School student intern with the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, took up the cause of the timeliness of the filing during Tuesday’s hearing.

Arguing on behalf of Parisi, he said relevant case law shows that the appeal period should not start on Dec. 15—when the commission issued a “preliminary disposition” on the matter—but rather when “the aggrieved party is sent meaningful notice of the decision from which they may appeal.”

He said that the commission’s Dec. 15 deliberation and decision included no “factual basis for its decision, the legal standard it applied, nor did it resolve material outstanding factual disputes.”

If the appeal period began on Dec. 15, then Parisi would have had to file her appeal no later than Dec. 26 — which he said is the same day that her counsel received the commission’s written order.

“Ms. Parisi would have had no way of cognizing the factual and legal grounds for an appeal based on the vote in the Dec. 15 hearing.”

Instead, he argued, Dec. 23 — when a “meaningful notice” was sent to the par-

ties — should mark the start of the appeal clock.

Jan. 1 was a holiday. Jan. 2 was a Saturday. That means that Parisi should have had until Jan. 4 to file her appeal while still technically within the 10-day appeal window, Kinkley argued.

Kinkley also disputed Jacobs’s assertion that the appeal was actually filed on Jan. 7, which is when it was uploaded to the state court docket. He said the return of service included at the end of the administrative appeal document shows that a state marshal hand-delivered the citation, summons, and appeal to the city clerk’s office and to Nadeau on Jan. 4.

Jacobs said that Kinkley “argued well and persuasively” — then pushed back on the notion that Parisi needed any more information than what was announced on Dec. 15 in order to file an appeal.

“The issues before the Fair Rent Commission was simply whether the proposed rent increase was fair or not fair,” he said.

“There would have been no reason to articulate the basis for that. It was a simple decision that had to be made. Was it fair or not fair in light of what was presented to the Fair Rent Commission at that time?”

The commissioners subsequently made their decision and announced it on the record, in the presence of both parties and their respective counsels, he said.

Jacobs said the fight over this appeal right now has less to do with Nadeau, and more to do with the 10-day timeline specifically set out in city law.

“If the plaintiff doesn’t like that, then the plaintiff ought to petition the Board of Alders to amend the ordinance to allow for a longer period of time,” he said.

Judge Baio thanked both parties for their thorough and well-prepared arguments and briefs, and promised to deliver soon a decision on whether or not to dismiss the case for alleged untimeliness.

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The Prosperity Foundation: Catching Up With Orsella Hughes, Executive Director Francette Carson, Writer, The Inner-City News

The Prosperity Foundation (TPF) is an organization that focuses on strengthening opportunities and creating an impact within Black communities in areas such as education, health, and economics.

TPF promotes philanthropy, prosperity, and self-empowerment within the community by forming a collaborative bridge between sponsors and community-based programs serving the community. TPF is about connecting the community and expanding financial resources with the assistance and support of endowment donations, fundraising with collective donors for the life cycle of Black America. There is nothing more important than Blacks supporting Blacks in their own community in this time of upheaval and uncertainty due to the health crisis and racial disparities in America. The Prosperity Foundation (TPF) is “Unapologetically Black in serving Black people.”

Orsella Hughes, Executive Director, stated the mission includes building the financial “Forever Black Plan,” a succession plan within the Black community.

Through philanthropic efforts, TPF will have the ability to offer grants and loans with the overarching goal of developing economic entrepreneurship and sustainability of Black businesses. The Prosperity Foundation aims to foster the concept of “Own First, Shop Next.”

Howard K. Hill Funeral Home founded the Urban Prosperity Fund. Mr. Hill is

Howard K. Hill a pillar within the Greater New Haven Community. His philanthropic efforts birthed the foundation to secure financial resources for families to fund funeral expenses. The foundation discovered it was deeper than funerals; Black communities were underserved in education, health, and economics. The Black community needs life planning resources because mainstream America has failed to provide the necessary support for social and economic vitality within the Black community. TPF’s collaborative efforts

Orsella Hughes amongst philanthropists, community organizations, and the people will advance the mission of building awareness and ensuring efforts to provide educational, health, and financial support to build self-sustaining communities.

The foundation continues to be the arm within the community by bridging the gap between philanthropists and community-based service providers to expand financial resources and improve the community’s health, education, and economic development. The Commu-

nity Foundation for Greater New Haven collaborated with the Prosperity Foundation to further strengthen the foundation’s internal structure. TPF received collaborative support from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, Hartford Foundation For Public Giving and, Nellie Mae Educational Foundation.

TPF is a space through which donors can combine their efforts to become more effective and more powerful to achieve their community philanthropy goals in supporting Connecticut’s Black communities.

The Prosperity Foundation exists as a “Forever” philanthropic plan. TPF be-

lieves it is time to cultivate all of our resources under the same ideas. To make a greater enough impact that our resources are tight together. Hughes emphasized that we must follow the African principle Ubuntu “I am because you are.” The Prosperity foundation cannot be without the community. The community cannot be without a foundation that serves its’ people. Let us be each other’s resource.”

“TPF is a community foundation including donor-advised funds, educational events, giving circles and other forms of philanthropy to connect and collectively contribute to improving conditions and opportunities for the community.”

Artists Get "Unapologetically Radical”

by Arturo Pineda, The Arts Paper www.newhavenarts.org

Nico Wheadon remembers one of her first lessons in taking joy from an accidental offense. While on a panel at Princeton University, she compared artists to entrepreneurs. In her eyes, artists approach a canvas in the same way that entrepreneurs approach a strategic plan.

A white man on the panel insisted it wasn’t that simple. She didn’t let his protestations get to her.

“Every time I offend someone, there is someone I have been brought closer to because of that,” she said.

Saturday, Wheadon brought that anecdote to Unapologetically Radical, a one day virtual conference from the New Haven Department of Arts, Culture & Tourism and the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. Wheadon, founder of bldg fund, joined Waterbury Strong Community Collective co-founder Tyler McElrath and Power Of Choice founder Brittany Cooper for one of the day’s earliest panels,

“Truth and Reconciliation.”

In the spirit of the conference, each of the panels addressed dismantling systems of racial oppression and applying immediate and direct change to arts organizations and communities across the state.

Excerpts from the panels are available here.

For McElrath, the conversation around history and joy started by acknowledging the toll of Covid-19 on Black and Brown communities. On Monday, Gov. Ned Lamont announced that vaccines will now be determined by age, rather than in categories grouped by profession and potential level of exposure. While Connecticut remains a national leader in the percentage of people who have been vaccinated, vaccinated white residents now far outnumber their peers of color.

“It [Covid-19] really forced a sense of unity that we needed as a nation and people,” he said. “There is an inspiration coming around that is amazing.”

Cooper echoed the sentiment by adding that joy cannot come without recognizing

the collective trauma Black and Brown communities have been through. That same trauma can distract people from their own lives.

“I think we hold so much generational trauma that we forget that presently in our moment,” she said. “We are responsible for writing that story and narrative .. .at some point, we are going to be looked at as the ancestors.”

The three discussed how to be truthful to themselves and to their values in professional environments. McElrath, who ran for mayor of Waterbury in 2019, emphasized the importance of speaking out against systems that have oppressed and continue to oppress Black people.

“Speak out truth unfiltered and call things out for what they are,” he said. “We have to say that because these are systems that have been put against our people.”

Wheadon spoke about the challenges of showing up as her full self to every occasion.

“I think about leading from a place of value,” she said. “If we don’t speak the

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same language, I’m not trying to work with you. It’s an honesty that is hard to exercise.”

Cooper said she prepares in advance for certain discussion in professional settings. She added that it is important for individuals and communities to celebrate milestones both large and small against work that aims to dismantle oppressive systems.

“Being a truthful conversation especially in a professional setting is not a bad thing to do,” she said. “We don’t need to reframe how we’re feeling. It will help us in our forward movement as a community.”

In many ways, panelists said, art can close the gaps in language around discussion, joy, unity, and progress. Wheadon reminded attendees that art can be a force that challenges perspectives when the existing language has failed.

“Most art doesn’t come with an essay,” she said. “If it doesn’t ask me to ask a question, that’s not for me.”

Cooper added that competition can kill that sense of communication. She sug-

gested that attendees do their research and support Black-owned artists and businesses instead of asking those businesses to compete with each other.

“Our systems put us in a competitive nature,” she said. “We can’t forget the big picture, you and me doing the same song in a different way is a great thing.That’s another person we get to connect with.”

Wheadon added that organizations need to be ready to do the long work of antiracism. Right now, she said, institutions treat Black art as a hot commodity without any further intention to support Black artists and employees. Cultural organizations in the city remain disproportionately white, despite a pool of talented Black, Latinx and Indigenous artists.

“These institutions hire to hire Black and Brown people in positions of power that have come out of thin air,” she said.

“Is there infrastructure to make this Black person feel included and supported at your institution?”

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Hill Returns Favor To “Uncle Abe”

by MAYA MCFADDEN

New Haven I ndependent

Abraham Gallishaw is known for hosting pig roast cookouts that feed his neighbors in the Hill. On Saturday his neighbors turned around to throw him a celebration — to help him get back on his feet after a fire destroyed his home.

Gallishaw,also known as “Uncle Abe,” lost his Arthur Street home to a fire that spread from the neighboring house on Thursday March 4. The three-family residence was condemned and demolished the next day.

“Thirty years of what I’ve worked for is gone. I just had the clothes on my back,” said Gallishaw, a 69-year-old retired meal-on-wheels worker who rented his home.

Gallishaw’s children — Nakia DawsonDouglas, Taquanna Thomas, Adrienne Carmen, Bernice Dawson, and Abraham Gallishaw Jr. — organized the “give and go” celebration for their father on Saturday amid the rubble of the family home at Arthur and Lamberton streets.

Even after the fire, Gallishaw didn’t ask for help but instead continue to offer a helping hand to others.

Since 2004 Gallishaw has been hosting a community cookout at Washington Avenue Park to feed the neighborhood. When Gallishaw moved to the Arthur Street home more than 30 years ago, he recalled saying “the condition of this neighborhood says it all” and began helping the community with services like lawn care.

Saturday’s give and go event attracted 60 community and family members to help Gallishaw out for a change. Gallishaw’s kids grew up watching the community depend on their father. Gallishaw preferred to have the event instead of creating a GoFundMe online fundraiser. “He doesn’t just need money. We want to remind him that the community has his back,” said Thomas.

Gallishaw couldn’t salvage any of his belongings from the fire. He now temporarily stays with his girlfriend, he said.

Friends and family donated household goods like an air fryer, microwave oven, and toilet tissue for his next home.

Gallishaw was down the street at Angela Unique Creations gift shop at the time of the fire.

His twin brother Issac Gallishaw, who occupied the home’s second floor, was planning to take a nap during the time of the fire. Then his friend Riley Gregg called him asking for a ride to Union Station. “When I put my shoes on and walked out, I saw next door was on fire,” he said. The fire then spread to the Gallishaws’ building.

Issac has since relocated to his Masonry brothers home, Douglass Hall.

“I have been keeping positive because I know God will provide,” Issac said.

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Elder Gallishaw dropped by the celebration to give a monetary donation to her brother in law. “When one of us hurts, all of us hurt,” she said.

Music blared from the corner as community members stopped by and thanked Gallishaw for his decades of service in the neighborhood.

A number of city officials stopped by in support of Gallishaw, including housing authority President Karen DuBoisWalton, Mayor Justin Elicker, and Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker Myers, Gallishaw’s niece.

Elicker presented Gallishaw with a mayoral proclamation for his decades of service in the community.

Gallishaw hopes to get a new home in the Hill, he said. “l’ll never leave the place. It needs help.”

At one point Gallishaw had spoken to the owners about purchasing the home next door, but they declined his offers Andrea Murrell stopped by Saturday with her 2-year-old son Drew, to give a donation to her childhood inspiration.

Murrell grew up with Gallishaw and his family and described him as a “true figure in the community.” She said Gallishaw serves as a positive reminder of her childhood.

“He is everything good about New Haven,” she said.

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“Monterey Chicken” Off To Flying Start

by BRIAN SLATTERY

New Haven I ndependent

A new chicken joint has opened in Newhallville, with a name that echoes New Haven’s history.

The new restaurant, Monterey Chicken, is operating for dinner out of the ConnCAT Orchid Cafe space at 4 Science Park, offering takeout and delivery for now and gearing up for sit-down service.

As the restaurant is named after New Haven’s legendary Monterey Cafe jazz club, it was fitting that on Friday night, the business opened with an event that put that jazz history front and center.

Jesse “Cheese” Hameen II beamed as he looked at the small group assembled in the space for the event. He was looking especially at fellow New Haven jazz legends Bobby Mapp and Hank Bolden.

“The three of us,” he said, “are the last three born in New Haven from that era.”

By “that era,” he meant the heyday of Dixwell Avenue as a jazz corridor in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The Monterey Cafe had been the hub of that scene.

On Friday evening, the three musicians were gathered, along with musicians Morris Trent, William Fluker, and Phil Brown, Delores “Dee Dee” Greenlee (granddaughter of Monterey owner Rufus Greenlee), Alderwoman Delphine Clyburn, and others to celebrate the official opening of Monterey Chicken — a new venture from ConnCAT’s culinary program that seeks to connect to Newhallville’s past and possibly serve as another home for New Haven jazz in the near future.

“We have a responsibility to develop concepts that serve the community at large,” said Gideon Gebreyesus,

BRIAN SLATTERY PHOTOS Bolden, Hameen, Mapp, Brown, Fluker at restaurant opening, perusing an old Register article about the Monterey Cafe.

ConnCAT’s vice president of restaurant development. “This area is a food desert.

ConnCAT’s been a leader in pushing to change things.”

The Orchid Cafe — run by graduates and students of ConnCAT’s culinary arts program — has been operating out of the ConnCAT kitchen in Science Park since 2017 and has been running the cafe at the Ives branch of the New Haven Free Public Library since 2019. Open for breakfast and lunch, pre-pandemic, the Orchid Cafe focused on creating meals that are reasonably priced, made from quality ingredients, and above all, delicious. As the pandemic disrupted normal operations, the Orchard Cafe switched to take-

out delivery and started up a Sunday jazz brunch outside when weather permitted.

The cafe also hosted a safe space offering technical and educational support to up to 40 students, free of charge.

In deciding to start a place where people could get dinner, Gebreyesus said ConnCAT took a look at what the immediate neighborhood needed. As they took a look at other businesses, one unfilled niche that emerged was “a good chicken place,” Gebreyesus said, “no antibiotics, freshly made, pan seared.”

The poultry can be eaten as an appetizer as a plate of tenders with four dipping sauces, as an empanada, as a sandwich, or as a dinner platter, with sides

of cole slaw, macaroni and cheese, collard greens, and fries. Vegetarians could make a meal on those sides and one of the kitchen’s salads. A variety of desserts await those who still have room.

Monterey Chicken opened Feb. 8 as a ghost kitchen, preparing meals only for takeout and delivery. Gebreyesus said it has already attracted customers, from the neighborhood, people who work in Science Park, and Yale students. “The beauty of it is that we open at four, when many people leave work.” As with the Orchid Cafe, Monterey Chicken is staffed by graduates of ConnCAT’s culinary program. “They’re coming back to run this operation,” Gebreyesus said.

“And incoming students can see what they do.”

Chef Nathanial Allen is a prime example. He graduated ConnCAT’s culinary program in 2019 and went to work in the kitchen of the New Haven Lawn Club. A friend told him that Monterey was opening, and “I called Gideon and told him my services were available,” Allen said.

“It’s a new opportunity.” He was part of the team who developed the menu along with Gebreyesus, and said of the menu items that “I make them my own” when he prepares the dishes. “We have quality food. We get it done. Give us a try,” he said.

And then there’s the broader mission regarding the restaurant’s namesake. “We wanted to connect Monterey to the place that used to be,” Gebreyesus said. As such, the Orchid Cafe plans to return to live jazz when pandemic restrictions are lifted, with its Sunday brunch and hopefully with a new jazz concert series.

That idea got off to a warm start as Trent on guitar, Bolden on sax, and Fluker on trumpet regaled the Monterey’s guests with a deep and relaxed set of ballads that showed each musician still in top form. Midway through their set, Trent worked out a curlicuing solo on guitar that ended with a long trill. He looked up at Bolden. Even with mask on, the intent was clear. Bolden received the message and answered with a solo of his own. At times the three musicians traded lines so fluidly that, in the best tradition of jazz playing, it was as though they had worked out an arrangement beforehand, through really it was all being accomplished by expert playing, deep listening, and real communication.

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Landlord Runs Out Of Patience; Tenant Runs Out Of Time husband only just started receiving disability checks and asked if she could have the rest of the month before moving out.

“I know she wants me out, I just need till the end of the month,” she said. “We’ve been struggling since the beginning,” Martinez added.

She also noted that the landlord has been “nice.” In court documents, she indicated that Candelaria agreed to drop her rent by $300 in January 2020 until Martinez could gain a full-time job.

Judge Claudia Baio asked if Candelaria would agree to allow Martinez to stay through the month. Candelaria declined, citing previous mediation in which the two parties agreed on a final stay of execution that would end March 1.

“I can’t do it no more. I just want them to move,” Candelaria said. “I have a lot of bills to pay.”

by MADISON HAHAMY New Haven I ndependent

Elizabeth Candelaria had reached her limit.

She’d been working with her Judith Terrace tenant for years when the tenant couldn’t come up with the rent.

On Tuesday, she asked Judge Claudia Baio to finally order her tenant to leave.

That happened at a Superior Court hearing held online.

Candelaria, who lives in Wallingford, bought the three-family Judith Terrace house in 1998. She represented herself at Tuesday’s hearing. So did the tenant, Carmen Martinez.

In a suit seeking to evict Martinez, Candelaria stated that Martinez hadn’t paid rent since December 2019.

Martinez told the judge Tuesday that her

Landlord Candelaria, Judge Baio at Tuesday’s online hearing.

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Judge Baio sided with the landlord. She ordered Martinez to leave the premises now.

“The court has to enforce [the eviction order] because I haven’t heard anything showing any change that would justify that,” the judge added.

However, she also said that the order itself will take a few days before taking effect. So it will take a few days more before the marshal takes action on actually seizing the property.

“You may have a little bit of time to start getting things in order,” Judge Baio said to Martinez, also indicating that the two could use the extra days to try to reach an agreement outside of the courtroom.

Candelaria’s face remained impassive as the verdict was announced.

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DeLauro Takes A Victory Lap

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New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro was in the national spotlight this week as an 18-year crusade to cut child poverty came to fruition.

At DeLauro’s original urging, the $1.9 trillion Covid stimulus bill signed by the president Thursday includes an expansion of the child tax credit that will cut child poverty in America by an estimated half.

An estimated 27 million families will now cross the line out of poverty. It is considered the single greatest measure to reduce poverty in generations, a “children’s version of Social Security.” The credit will deliver $3,600 per child annually to lowincome families, many of which received nothing under the old formula.

DeLauro began pushing for a credit expansion 18 years ago. Newly ascendant to leadership of the House Appropriations Committee, she was able to push it over the finish line this month.

DeLauro made the rounds of national media interviews this week as a result, and had a piece published in Time.

One of her stops was MSNBC’s “The Beat” with Ari Melber. Click on the video above to watch their seven-minute discussion on the tax credit, which includes C-SPAN footage of DeLauro’s early days championing the credit.

In that discussion, and on other platforms, DeLauro got personal, recalling her own family’s economic struggles as she grew up in Wooster Square.

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro

“Growing up in a very blue-collar family, where my dad was an insurance salesman. My mother was with the ILGWU, my mother was a garment worker and worked in the old sweatshops. They fell on hard times. And I can recall as a child when we came home on Friday evening with all our furniture on the sidewalk. We had been evicted, and we wound up living with my grandmother for a while until my family could get back on its feet. So, I grew up in a household where it really was a struggle financially,” DeLauro said.

All people in Connecticut 16 and older are now eligible to receive Covid-19 vaccinations starting April 5.

Gov. Ned Lamont announced that accelerated schedule in response to President Joe Biden’s call for states to vaccinate people faster — and the president’s promise of increased supplies with which to vaccinate.

Currently, people aged 55 or older are eligible for vaccination in Connecticut, along with healthcare workers, medical first-responders, staffers and residents at long-term care and congregate facilities, and pre-K-12 school staffers and childcare providers. People over 45 become eligible on March 19 (by coincidence the same date that Lamont is allowing stores, gyms, offices, houses of worships and other establishments to resume operating indoors at full capacity).

“Based on our discussions with the federal government regarding vaccine allocation, we anticipate receiving more than 200,000 first doses per week by early April. This allotment, combined with our state’s strong execution over the past several weeks, allows Connecticut to significantly accelerate the schedule so that we can equitably and efficiently vaccinate as many residents as possible,” Lamont stated in a release issued Monday afternoon.

“It’s still going to take some time to get the vaccine to everyone who wants it and I urge patience to the greatest extent possible, but over these next several weeks I

anticipate that we will have an opportunity to considerably increase the amount administered each day.”

See below for information on where and how to schedule an appointment to get vaccinated.

Yale New Haven Health System: Visit the website or call 833-ASK-YNHH Cornell Scott Hill Health Center: Visit the

website or call 203-503-3000 Fair Haven Community Health Care: Visit the website or call 203-871-4179 Walgreens (436 Whalley Ave., 88 York St., or 87 Foxon St.): Visit the website or call (203) 777-8001 for 436 Whalley Ave.: ; (203) 752-9893 for 88 York St.; or (203) 469-3016 for 87 Foxon St. Walmart (315 Foxon Blvd.

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Black and Brown People Wait for Justice in Connecticut

By Ms Barbara Fair, West Haven resident and voter

Connecticut prides itself being a progressive state. One peek into the Criminal Justice and Correctional system tells a story in contrast. It tells a story of deeply embedded structural and institutional racial disparity within every state organization.

Although Connecticut is over 72% White every system that negatively impacts Connecticut society is nearly or over 72% Black and Brown. Clearly in Connecticut the arc of the moral universe is slow to bend toward justice.

When a deeply tragic incident stole the lives of 3 Cheshire residents justice was swift. Immediate arrests were made, laws were passed with deliberate speed within one legislative session and parole policies were immediately changed disrupting the lives of many who had been successfully transitioning back into their communities.

Many found themselves hauled back into prisons without legal challenge.

Mubaruk Soulemane was killed by police last year and despite a change in State’s Attorney and the subsequent passage of a Police Accountability bill his grieving family is still waiting for justice.

The 50-year-old war on drugs aggressively and selectively waged in Black and Brown communities rages on with no end in sight while the government creatively

seeks investment in revenue sharing from legalizing recreational marijuana. At the same time thousands remain incarcerated for doing that very same thing and wait to see if they will be released from prison.

Black and Brown people wait to see if money saved from prison closures will be reinvested in their communities since the selectively enforced war on drugs disproportionately disrupted their lives.

Activists, for example, fought for decades to rescind the 1500 ft drug free zone policy that undeniably discriminates against people in urban centers enhancing any sentence they receive for violating drug policy. The wait for justice continues.

Activists in Connecticut have fought for years to end state sanctioned torture that occurs behind the cement walls of Northern C.I. where almost 90% of those held in isolation are Black and Brown people.

It took years of struggle to finally hear the words, “Northern is closing”. People remaining inside suffer on a daily basis yet have to wait until July for the torture to end. Once Northern closes I’m certain we will have to wait to see it demolished, making it a part of Connecticut’s ugly history.

Very early in the session Stop Solitary Ct, presented Judiciary with the Protect Act, a proposal to end solitary confinement among other practices. We initially sought to end it in 2017 legislative session

yet what we got was so watered down it barely scratched the surface of what needed to be done. We are hopeful this time will be different.

Other states have already ended this abuse in their prisons. Why, if Connecticut prides itself in being so progressive and a frontrunner for justice, why are we having to fight so hard and so long for Corrections to respect the human dignity of those held in their custody? It’s time we ask ourselves why the arc of Universal morality takes so long to bend toward justice for Black and Brown people? Justice delayed is justice denied.

Earlier this session legislator Lopes proposed a bill (SB773) to end the shameful practice of charging people for their incarceration. We know who is disproportionately paying this price and so it did not go forth for a vote and so once again, Black and Brown will have to wait for justice. Maybe next session.

I have a novel idea. How about legislators devote an entire session exclusively undoing policies rooted in racism. It may take a few sessions since much of America’s social policy is rooted in racism and codified into law. When they do this work, we can end the overused narrative that undeniable system-wide racial disparities are unintentional consequences.

Ms Barbara Fair, West Haven resident and voter

Health Equity & Blood Oxygen Bill Advances

A pulse oximeter is a medical device that clamps onto one’s finger and measures oxygen in the blood by passing light from the device through a patient’s skin.

“Because it is noninvasive and easy to obtain, it has been, for many, the go-to device for a quick estimate of severity of illness in aftercare and even in clinical settings,” Dillon wrote in testimony in support of the bill.

However, research has shown—and the federal Food and Drug Administration has conceded—that these devices are less accurate for patients with darker skin than they are for patients with lighter skin.

The proposed legislation would require the state inform health care providers and pharmacists across the state that “a pulse oximeter is more likely to produce an inaccurate blood oxygen level for an insured who is an individual of color as opposed to an insured who is a white individual.”

The bill would also prohibits insurers, health care centers, and other medical service operations from denying coverage for an otherwise covered benefit “if such denial is exclusively based on an insured’s blood oxygen level as measured by a pulse oximeter.”

by THOMAS BREEN

New Haven I ndependent

A New Haven-backed state bill designed to protect Black patients from potentially inaccurate blood-oxygen readings advanced out of committee and towards the full state legislature for further debate.

That proposed legislation is Raised Senate Bill No. 1008: An Act Concerning Health Equity, The Coronvirus Pandemic And Pulse Oximeters.

The bill was introduced by New Haven State Rep. Pat Dillon, and is co-sponsored by fellow New Haven state lawmakers Martin Looney, Robyn Porter, and Juan Candelaria, as well as by Hamden’s Josh Elliott. Dillon also introduced a similar bill, House Bill 6241, which was co-sponsored by, among others, fellow New Haven State Rep. Toni Walker.

On Monday, the state legislature’s Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate moved the bill forward by unanimous consent.

“I’m really excited that the Insurance Committee unanimously supported the legislation,” Dillon told the Independent Tuesday. “It’s a modest step towards mitigating the systemic racism that we know exists” in healthcare, including in how pulse oximeters work.

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“Monterey Chicken”

As Hameen — now jazz instructor and head of Neighborhood Music School’s summer jazz program — explained, “the Monterey was a rite of passage…. Everybody played there. Those that were coming up and those that were coming through.” Some of those who came through included Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. Some of those who came up included Hameen, Mapp, and Bolden, as well as Horace Silver, who died in 2014.

The Monterey was the anchor for a thriving club scene that included the Golden Gate, the Democratic Club, and the Playback. Monterey owner Rufus Greenlee was “an institution in himself.”

Hameen who will be 80 years old this week considered New Haven to be the town that shaped him into the musician he is, even when he moved to the West Coast and to New York for the early part of his career and toured relentlessly.

“New Haven means so much to me,” he said. “When I was on tour, I always came back.” He recalled being introduced to audiences on tour as being from New York, and he said he got in the habit of correcting them. “I live in New York,” he would say from the stage, “but I’m from New Haven, Connecticut. New Haven did this.”

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59.57% Of City Real Estate Tax-Exempt

In Latest Annual Calculation

by THOMAS BREEN

New Haven I ndependent

Nearly 60 percent of all city real estate value—or $8.5 billion in total—remains off the tax rolls, as City Hall gears up for a twice-a-decade property revaluation.

City Acting Assessor Alex Pullen gave that update Monday night during the Board of Alders Finance Committee’s first public hearing on Mayor Justin Elicker’s two proposed Fiscal Year 20212022 (FY22) budgets. The two-and-ahalf-hour virtual meeting was held online via Zoom and YouTube Live.

One proposed general fund budget, dubbed the “crisis” version, comes in at a total of $589.1 million and includes a 7.75 percent tax increase and a raft of personnel and service cuts, including the closure of Westville’s library branch.

The “forward together” version totals $606.2 million, with no tax increase and a $53 million combined financial boost from Yale University and the state.

Before members of the public got their first chance to weigh in on the two fiscal proposals and before City Budget Director Michael Gormany gave a high-level overview of each set of revenues and expenditures, Pullen brought the alders up to speed on the latest with the city’s grand list.

That’s the sum total of taxable and nontaxable real estate, motor vehicle, and personal property value in the city. The taxable grand list represents the single largest source of revenue in any given year’s city budget, as it determines how much the city can collect in local property taxes.

Pullen said that the total tax-exempt grand list—that is, real estate that New Haven city government cannot collect property taxes on—is now worth an estimated $8,507,435,687. That’s nearly 0.4 percent, or over $32.5 million, higher than last year.

In total, 59.57 percent of the city’s overall real estate value is currently nontaxable. The city saw virtually the same ratio last year, when 59.74 percent of city real estate property was tax-exempt.

Yale University owns $3.5 billion in nontaxable local property, or 40.57 percent of the tax-exempt grand list, Pullen said. Yale New Haven Hospital owns $1.2 billion, or 14.25 percent of the taxexempt grand list. The city owns $2 billion of that tax-exempt property value, the state owns $858,000, and various other tax-exempt nonprofits own $842,000.

Pullen said that the largest increases in tax-exempt property value last year came through improved municipal properties, like the housing authority’s redeveloped Brookside/Rockview apartments; through the expansion of charitable organizations like Mary Wade Home and Chapel Haven; and through new acquisitions by private colleges like Yale and

THOMAS BREEN PRE-PANDEMIC FILE PHOTO

City Assessor Pullen: Reporting on latest figures, preparing for reval.

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Mayor Justin Elicker, the Board of Alders, and the city’s state legislative delegation have pointed time and again to the preponderance of tax-exempt property value in town as a critical driver of New Haven’s inability to collect as much revenue as it needs to run a functional, financially sustainable city government.

As for the net taxable grand list, Pullen said that the pool of taxable city real estate, personal property, and motor vehicle property grew by 1.33 percent, or $87.9 million, to an estimated total of $6,712,653,144.

The real estate portion of the net taxable grand list grew from $5.547 billion to nearly $5.597 billion.

“It’s a modest increase,” Pullen said. He added that, in a non-reval year, “we often do not expect growth and a lot of the time we do see decreases.” So an across-theboard increase in the value of personal property, motor vehicle property, and real estate property represents an encouraging, if modest, boost to the city’s tax rolls.

He said the biggest drivers of last year’s taxable grand list increase were properties that are participating in the city’s assessment deferral program slowly phasing in to their actual assessments, and therefore fuller tax burdens.

Pullen said that there are 133 properties currently under deferral, and assessment deferral phase-ins constituted around $42 million of the $87 million increase to this year’s taxable grand list.

He also said that the city’s top 10 taxpayers remained in the same order as they have been in the past five years. That includes United Illuminating at the top, followed by Winstanley, Yale University, Fusco, the Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSEG), and Yale New Haven Hospital.

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Summer Youth@Work Deadline Extended

by PAUL BASS

Gwendolyn Busch Williams has never forgotten how great it felt at 14 years old to receive her first paycheck at a summer cashier’s job.

So she is working hard to make sure as many New Haven teens as possible have the same experience.

These days Williams does that as city government’s director of youth of recreation. Her department oversees the summer Youth@Work program, which arranges for New Haven teens to work up to 30 hours a week at local employers between July 6 and July 30.

Williams has extended the deadline for teens to apply for the program to March 24. The city’s still waiting to find out precisely how much state money comes in to fund the program this summer. Because of the pandemic the city had to hustle to connect 150 teens to jobs last summer. Williams is hoping to at least double the number of teens working this year, or even place as many as 400.

“It’s so important for the young people right now to have a sense of normalcy” as well as some “money in their pockets,” she said Tuesday. “It’s not just adults

Voices For Children Steps Up For Incarcerated Parents’ Rights

who were hit by the pandemic.”

Tomi Veale, who administers the program for the city, added that especially in this pandemic year, teens need to “engage with positive adults in the community” in addition to those at home.

Sixty employers have offered to host teen workers this summer under the program. Although the deadline has technically passed, Veale said any employer looking to host teen workers can still contact her at tveale@newhavenct.gov.

Williams has been making pitches for Youth@Work for 13 years now. She has not lost her enthusiasm along the way. Click on the above video to watch her pitch the program at a 2008 fair.

That first summer job Williams held at 14 was behind the register at the former Edwards Food Warehouse in Orange.

“I thought I was so cool when I got my check,” she recalled. “I was so excited.”

She earned minimum wage. Back then it was $4.25 an hour. This year’s youth@workers will earn the hourly minimum wage as well — although that’s now $12.

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EMILY HAYS PHOTO City youth and rec chief Gwendolyn Busch William: “It was so exciting” to get that first paycheck.

by MADISON HAHAMY

What is the 'Safe Routes for All Citywide Plan'?

Incarcerated parents are disproportionately at greater risk for the termination of their parental rights. A new report hopes to fix that.

The report, entitled “Incarcerated Parents and Termination of Parental Rights in Connecticut: Recommendations for Reform,” was published on Friday. It is a joint effort between Connecticut Voices for Children and the Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School.

The report offers an explanation of “the unintended impacts of ASFA,” the Adoption and Safe Families Act, along with recommendations about how to protect both the rights of incarcerated parents and the welfare of their children.

“Many of [the recommendations] can be implemented without putting a strain on the state budget and some can be implemented with reinvestment of budget savings from the closure of prisons,” the report reads.

In a Friday morning press online conference, Allison Durkin, Destiny Lopez, and Eleanor Roberts of the Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic and Lauren Ruth and Emily Byrne from Connecticut Voices for Children briefly presented the report’s 18 recommendations.

Durkin specifically noted statistics indicating that over half of all incarcerated people are parents, and TPR, or termination of parental rights, disproportionately affects them, specifically incarcerated people of color. Black children, she added, are 3.77 times more likely than white children to experience TPR.

This plan will create a roadmap for citywide improvements to make it safer and more convenient to walk, bike, roll, and ride the bus!

What will happen during this public workshop?

Data and maps will be presented about improvements that can be made to streets and sidewalks throughout the city. The project team will provide an overview and share initial conclusions. Attendees will provide feedback and additional ideas for improvements. We would like to hear about problems in your neighborhood and the current state of your streets and sidewalks.

Website coming soon: saferoutesforall.com This work is funded in part by the CDC’s Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Program and part of the national Active People, Healthy Nation initiative.

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ASFA, which Lopez said has “enormous” “unintended consequences,” incentivizes states to terminate parental rights by giving more federal funding to adoptions, rather than families that unify.

But, she added, states have “wide discretion” in which statutes they choose to enact. The report’s recommendations would allow for Connecticut to preserve its federal funding while creating “meaningful changes.”

Their recommendations fall under four main categories: prevent TPR, support communication between incarcerated parents and children, mitigate harm, and promote awareness of the rights of parents and the harm that TPR can cause.

Specifically, recommendations include establishing a racial equity commission to study racial disparities in TPR, reinvesting funds from prison closures towards a full-time social worker that can assist incarcerated parents, passing legislation that would allow for free prison phone calls, the right to appeal TPR when incarceration is a cause, written and verbal notice to incarcerated parents of their rights, training programs for lawyers, judges, and case workers on TPR exceptions, and more.

The report will be presented in coming weeks to the Connecticut Department of Children and Families and to legislators.

Durkin said that the pandemic has exacerbated some of the problems they hope to fix, such as limits on communication between incarcerated parents and their children.

“The status quo is harming families and harming children,” Durkin added.

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Deltas Deliver Firebirds That Home Cooking They’ve Been Missing

by MAYA MCFADDEN

New Haven I ndependent

After a year in a pandemic, New Haven firefighters enjoyed a group meal — a welcome reminder of the large shift meals they enjoyed in their firehouses pre-pandemic.

The lunch took place Saturday, as the Firebirds Society was celebrated Saturday for their life-saving work, particularly during the pandemic’s peak last year.

The celebration took place at the The Knickerbocker Golf Club on Sherman Parkway. It was sponsored by the New Haven Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., for its annual Regional Day of Service.

“You have not stopped, and we see you,” said Chapter President Paula Irvin.

This year the sorority’s eastern region chapters focused their recipients on frontline workers and Black-owned businesses.

The Deltas celebrate the annual March event to highlight and honor community members that make a difference in others lives. Due to the pandemic the chapter did not sponsor a recipient last year.

The Firebirds were celebrated with a grab and go lunch gathering from New Havenbased Black owned Eat Up Catering.

Eat Up LLC Catering owners Kristen Threatt and Brian Burkett delivered 60 plates of their soul food to the event. The duo celebrated not only the Firebirds but their own two year business anniversary Saturday.

The firefighters picked between a plate of buffalo chicken wings, macaroni and cheese, and cabbage or garlic herb chicken, rice, and cabbage.

The pandemic affected not only the firefighters’ workload but the firehouse atmosphere too. Large group meals were restricted. Firefighters have had to bring meals from home. The firefighters couldn’t cook meals at the firehouse for their shift or eat in large groups.

Saturday’s home-cooked meal gave the firefighters the “fuel to keep going,” said Irvin.

During the pandemic the fire department dealt with an increased call volume.

Battalion Chief Johnny Cooper said in his near 23 year career at the NHFD, he had never dealt with so many calls.

Captain Troy Frost said responding to calls at senior homes like Bella Vista required the firefighters to provide physical support as well as emotional support because of the pandemic’s increase in elderly isolation.

Captain Wayne Ricks Jr. agreed with Frost.

“When you get there, you realize it’s not only a medical issue they’re having,” said Ricks.

“It’s become necessary to offer our manpower and to put a smile on their face,” Frost added.

Frost and Ricks said working with homeless individuals at the pandemic’s peak was difficult, as well. “Many of

MAYA MCFADDEN PHOTOFirefighters gather for meal firehouse style.

Deltas with Firebirds at Saturday celebration.

them don’t know how to get the service they need when they’re not feeling good, so they don’t know who to call but us,” Frost said.

Firebirds President Ernest Jones said the pandemic made a firefighter’s job difficult “because we had to do things at a distance,” he said. “But all we know is to adapt and overcome.”

The Dixwell and Newhallville fire truck paid a visit to the celebration, giving the truck crew a quick break to grab a to-go plate before heading back to work.

“We do a lot of giving, so it’s nice to receive,” said Jones.

Captain Kendall Richardson recalled having to wear several forms of PPE at the start of the pandemic. For each call the firefighters had to wear a face shield, a Tyvek suit, gloves, shoe covers, and a fire mask with Covid-safe filter. Then all the equipment had to be disinfected upon their return to the firehouse.

The firefighters had to respond to each medical call and treat it like a potential Covid case to keep safe. “It’s like going into the unknown,” Richardson said.

After the gathering the Firebirds got back to work.

Frost delivered 12 meals to a family in Newhallville with ten children.

The group each packed up the remaining meals and arranged to deliver them to their fire brothers and sister on duty and in need of a comfort meal.

Manny James Takes People Back And Pays It Forward

by BRIAN SLATTERY

New Haven I ndependent

A textured guitar and languid drum beat pulse out of the speakers together, but they sound like the radio 35 years ago, warm and a little tinny. The sound of being in the car, or someone’s kitchen, before cell phones and Bluetooth speakers.

Then the sound opens up, and we’re in the present, looking back.

“Hello was the first thing you ever said to me,” Manny James sings, his voice between a whisper and a croon. “That’s when I had a revelation: what a great equation we could be.”

It’s the opening to “1987,” the latest from Manny James — a.k.a. Manny James Sorrells — is a follow-up to May’s “Never Let Go” that reaches back to the slow jams of the musician’s youth to create a song that offers solace and romance now. It debuted on radio recently and is now available on streaming services everywhere. “‘1987’ came about because I wanted to follow up ‘Never Let Go’ with something great, but I wanted to create something that felt classic — that had elements of music I grew up with that loved, and loved to listen to,” Sorrells said. For him,

the 80s was partly about slow jams. “All these sexy, feel-good songs were dominating the charts,” and “those are records I still listen to, to this day.” He thought of songs like “Am I Dreaming” and “Always,” by Atlantic Starr, “I Feel Good All Over,” by Stephanie Mills, “I Need Love” by LL Cool J, and the possibly genre-defining “Slow Jam” by Midnight Star.

“As I was creating it, I wanted to make a song that felt like the ‘80s,” Sorrells said about “1987.” That meant trying to conjure memories of “house parties, your first crush. I wanted to bring back the nostalgia for that era and authentically capture it.”

With co-producer Pete Greco, Sorrells also wanted to invoke another hallmark of ‘80s R&B: guitar solos. “The ‘80s R&B merged the ‘70s with rock music,” thanks to Prince. “Nobody was doing that before him,” Sorrells said.

Emulating the dearly beloved musician, who died in 2016, meant big shoes to fill.

Sorrells said that Greco, a go-to guitarist for New Haven’s R&B scene, sent him several takes. Sorrells pushed him to do more. “I need it to soar. I need it to go up, and up, and up, like you’re climbing

KAREN PONZIO PHOTO Manny James at the Anchor Spa in 2018.

a staircase,” Sorrells recalled telling Greco. Greco delivered. In true ‘80s fashion, the rest of the music is synthesized, programmed by Sorrells. “It’s programmed and it’s Pete,” Sorrells said.

Sorrells also slid into the musical style of ‘80s slow jams for “1987.” “It’s so inti-

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mate,” he said of the era. “There wasn’t a lot of screaming. It was sexy and beautiful.”

Why 1987?

That year “was the first year I realized I had a gift,” Sorrells said. He was in late elementary school when school staff picked him to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” for an assembly. “Time kind of stopped,” he said, and at the end “everyone started cheering, and a light bulb went off.” It also happened to be the year of his first crush. “Landmark year for me,” he said. “It just built me who I was, who I was going to be, and who I am now.”

Passing It On Since Nov. 9, Sorrells has started creating the same kind of possibilities for kids now. That’s when he opened the doors of Creative Hearts, Inc., offering instruction in vocals, keyboards, and music production to school-age students. “The mission is to create a positive and nurturing space that gives young people the opportunity to explore their own artistic talents and abilities,” Sorrells said, and “help them become more confident, to feel empowered, through the arts.”

Creative Hearts — which Sorrells runs

out of his studio, Made Sound Studios, at 91 Shelton Ave., and virtually — is an extension of his years of experience as a counselor. “I’ve always worked with young people,” he said. He started as a counselor at Church Street South and worked as one until the beginning of the pandemic, when he lost his job.

“I decided I needed to open my own business, do my own thing,” Sorrells said. He had wanted to do something like Creative Hearts for a while. The pandemic, he said, “allowed me to do something I always wanted to do.”

He is now up to eight students, and recently held his first winter concert.

“They’re all growing tremendously,” Sorrells said. “The arts do that.”

Part of the motivation for starting Creative Hearts “was because when I was a kid, these are the things I wish I would have had,” Sorrells said. “These are the opportunities that didn’t exist in my neighborhood” when he was growing up in Church Street South. For that reason he’s keeping the cost low, and reaching into the New Haven community.

“The young people I’ve met have unbelievable talent. I knew this was out here.

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Largest Black Doll Show to Open a Black Doll Museum in Shipping Containers

By BlackNews.com

Detroit, MI — Sandra Epps decided to turn her negative into a positive after surviving three near-death experiences due to lupus. In 2005, she established Sandy’s Land where the mission is to party with a purpose, to encourage women and girls to “Love the Skin They’re In!” Presently, Sandy’s Land LLC conducts art parties and hosts the Detroit Doll Show which is the largest black doll show of its kind.

She founded The Detroit Doll Show in 2011 with the purpose of celebrating history, culture, self-love, and diversity with the promotion of Black dolls.

Epps decided that with the up-rise and reveal of injustice to people of color and the establishment of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Black Doll Museum will be a perfect resource for visitors to learn about the positive history and culture of Black people, while little brown girls will be inspired to love themselves.

The build-out shipping containers will include the Black dolls in addition be a space to host art parties, doll-making workshops, and classes taught by black

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historians, therapists, and gardeners. Epps comments, “The Butterflyy represents the rash that appears on a lupus patient’s face when they are experiencing a flare-up.

The butterfly is also symbolic of hope, transformation, peace, and prosperity.

And these vivid and powerful insects are now quasi-extinct due to lack of habitat caused by new development, pesticides, and climate change.”

Her plan is to help save the butterfly

by incorporating them into her business space. With the help from the community, black doll collectors, butterfly lovers, nature enthusiasts, or just admirers Epps will make her dream a reality. She will introduce an entertainment space that uplifts black culture, empower brown girls and assist the environment.

The launch of the GoFundMe for the Black Doll Museum & Butterfly Garden is to raise funds to purchase land and to

Where We Go from Here

By Ray Curry, Secretary-Treasurer, UAW

A month into a tumultuous start of a new year, a new year following the most chaotic year in America that any living person can remember, I am seeing signs that the work in the streets and in our hospitals and at our voting booths far and wide, are saying even in states no one thought we would have captured after 2016, that even though we have been hit hard on so many fronts, it’s our front line that is now advancing for the greater good. It is divisiveness and hate that must retreat; it is science that will now confront COVID-19. And it is Americans of color who overcame at the polls to deliver the House, the Senate and the Presidency.

Contentious as it was, more Americans voted in the 2020 election than in any other election in 120 years. And look at what we did together.

An historic start We elected the first Black, female, Asian Vice President in Kamala Harris.

We elected in a historic runoff election, the first Black Senator from Georgia in more than a decade in Reverend Raphael Warnock. Rev. Warnock, the pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church — where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once was pastor — has dedicated his life to service and ministry. And we tipped the U.S. senate for hard working men and women by also delivering his fellow Georgian Jon Ossoff.

Out west, Wyoming elected their first female senator; Missouri sent its first Black Congressperson to DC; Delaware elected its first transgender Senator.

The voters of New Mexico became the first state to send a delegation to the House of Representatives made up entirely of women of color. And this 117th Congress is the most diverse in our country’s history just as President Joe Biden’s cabinet promises to be.

So, for me, 2021 is about hope and about working for a better life for all and a better nation together as we rise from the terrible test that 2020 has been. It is about recommitting to one another and to good works to help our brothers and sisters in need.

And even before we voted for inclusion, we were already making good trouble.

White, Black and Brown nationwide took to the streets this past spring and summer to ask our nation — to demand of our nation — that we address the systematic racism that has plagued this country since its founding. That has torn the very fabric of our country and created so much pain and loss. With one voice, all were saying: “Please, at long last, fix this.”

Our path is clear It is time to think not of ourselves, not of what divides us, not of our differences, but of our common good. It is time once again to remember that there is much, much more that unites us than divides us. Those that would seek to divide us, do not want us to see this truth. But it is here and it is powerful. And we must embrace it. We must together reform policies and institutions and thinking where injustice resides and restore people to the status of neighbors, not opponents.

The great UAW president Walter Reuther, who was a close friend and supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King summed

it up like this: “There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow man. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak.

There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.”

President John F. Kennedy famously put it just a bit differently. “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your county.”

With those words, he inspired a generation of Americans.

So, this is our time. It is time for our generation. Our historic moment. There are Americans who need our help. COVID has ravished us as nothing we have ever experienced. But here too I see hope ahead. I see President Biden moving quickly to put battling COVID front and center and to put good practices and science and the federal government back in the driver’s seat. I see us recommitting to our better angels, to help fellow Americans who are suffering and struggling.

In this vein we must also support our veterans. Those brave men and women who make the greatest sacrifice to protect all of us and our great nation. And we must participate in this democracy of ours, just like we saw in this past election.

We must stand strong and united against bigotry and hatred and heed the call we saw this past year as hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets to demand a fundamental change.

So, there is real work ahead, but I believe we are up to the task. Let us meet 2021 head on and with Solidarity. We are more than ready to bring our A game.

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then kick start the foundation work for the build-out shipping containers in Detroit, Michigan. The space will be intentional with empowerment including black art, statues with affirmations, and classes to be taught by African American doll makers, historians, gardeners, entomologists, therapists, and nutritionists. Also, there will be a pond with koi fish, gazebo, and rock path of hope to pay homage to loved ones. In addition, patrons can participate with interactive Nature Fun Facts. And Epps plans to become a certified way-station for Monarch Butterflies to have a safe pesticide-free habitat to eat, to lay their eggs, to grow, and be released to migrate.

Epps plans to purchase land in 2021.

There are two ways to support the construction of the Black Doll Museum.

People can make a donation on the GoFundMe page or with the purchase of Girlfriend, It’s Time to SOAR! A Work Journal for Personal Transformation written by Sandra Epps. The proceeds from each book will go toward the purchase of land for the Butterflyy Garden and Black Doll Museum at DetroitDollShow.com.

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them,” he said. “I’m giving back, helping the next creatives become who they’re destined to be. That’s what it’s all about.”

The kids get excited when they see the studio where he records, Sorrells said.

But the larger message Sorrells wants to impart is that they don’t need a fullfledged studio to succeed, “I want them to understand that their talent is enough,” he said. “You need your talent, a microphone, and something to record on, and a pen and a notepad.”

He also emphasizes that everyone needs to develop their talent. When people first hear their recorded voices played back to them, “you’re not going to like it the first time,” Sorrells said. It’s the sign that you have work to do — just like everyone has done.

Now a couple decades into his own artistic development, Sorrells feels he’s hitting his stride, making the best music he ever has. “I’m in complete control of my sound. I get to make art that I’m extremely proud of,” he said.

It has been a blessing in a year of hardship. “I’m just navigating the pandemic like everybody else,” Sorrells said. “Stay above the B.S. and remain in a good space — that’s not always easy to do, but we move forward.”

The pandemic has been hard on the community around him. “I’ve never lost this many people in one year,” he said, from family members to longtime friends. “At one point I was going to a funeral every month and a half. But we push forward.

What else can we do? I’m thankful for every positive thing that happened.”

“Music has been a savior, as always,” he added.

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property grand list saw a “big increase” thanks to United Illuminating acquiring more personal property.

While the nontaxable-to-taxable ratio remained virtually the same as it was last year, Pullen, the city is in the early stages of its twice-a-decade citywide revaluation.

That’s when City Hall and hired consultants review the assessments of every single property in town to come up with an up-to-date estimate of how much a property is actually worth based on recent sales, income generation, and the overall condition of the property. The city then applies the same mill rate—totally $1 in taxes for every $1,000 in assessed property value—to each property to determine how much each property should yield per year in local taxes.

“The last set of values come from the reval from 2016,” Pullen said. “As you move further away from the reval, your values get further away from that 70 percent ratio where we’re designed to be.”

New Haven assesses properties at 70 percent of their so-called appraisals, or estimated market values, to determine how much they should owe in taxes.

As of Jan. 26, Pullen said, city-hired inspectors are combing the city, gathering data on properties across New Haven for the 2021 reval. On Dec. 16, Pullen’s office sent out data mailers to all improved properties in the city.

“We’re currently in the beginning stages,” he said. The reval should be complete and the updated grand list should be in place by the time taxes are due in July 2022.

In the meantime, the 2020 grand list will be used to determine tax bills in July 2021 and January 2022.

Gormany pointed out that the “crisis” version of the budget would raise the city’s real estate mill rate to 47.28, or by 7.75 percent. The “forward together” version would leave the mill rate as is at 43.88.

In both versions, the motor vehicle mill rate would stay at 43.88, he said, because of caps imposed by the state legislature on how much municipalities can tax motor vehicles.

If the “crisis” budget is adopted, Gormany said, a homeowner whose home is valued at $200,000, for example, would see their local property taxes increase by $475. A homeowner with a home worth $350,000 would see a $833 property tax hike. And a homeowner with a home worth $500,000 would see their property taxes go up by $1,190.

“The administration is definitely looking at the ‘forward together’ budget,” Gormany told the alders on Monday. “But, we wanted to be prudent and show you what would happen if the city did not get additional revenue that’s needed from the state and from Yale.”

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A tailor-made grant helps continue a family legacy

“My grandfather was a pillar in the community,” Lofton said. “He always tried to help people and show people respect, and he taught me the same things.”

Lofton can still hear his grandfather saying, “Some money beats no money,” and he has embodied that while helping college students who may not be able to afford their alterations but always come back after they’ve graduated and are on their feet. He has continued that way of doing business today, as some customers have lost their income due to the pandemic and can’t completely pay for their items.

But Lofton has also struggled lately.

Years of gentrification in the neighborhood has resulted in increased property values and taxes, and many businesses having to leave. With the challenges from the pandemic, it’s been even harder. Lofton had contracts with hotels and stores that are closed or not seeing as much business, and his shop lost more than $100,000 last year. He said he has had to lay off some of his tailors and hasn’t been able to pay his rent and other bills.

“It’s just an all-around struggle trying to stay afloat,” Lofton said. “I’m just trying to keep my head up and keep the business and the lights on.”

Eddie Lofton has four grown children and six grandchildren, some of whom have already expressed interest in running the business one day, continuing a family legacy that began in 1939.

By Jessica Pacek

JC Lofton Tailors is continuing a family legacy that has been around for almost a century, with the help of a $10,000 grant from Wells Fargo through Local Initiatives Support Corporation.

You could say the tailoring business is in Julius “Eddie” Lofton’s blood.

As the owner of JC Lofton Tailors in Washington, D.C., he’s continuing a family tradition that began in the late 1930s, when his late grandfather, Josephus C. Lofton, whom the shop is named for, opened Lofton Custom Tailoring and became the first African American to own a tailoring shop/tailoring school in the district.

“Tailoring gives me gratification,” Lofton said. “Somebody comes in, and something is torn or burned, and we fix it, and the customer is like, ‘Wow. How’d you do that?’ I’m never going to be a millionaire, but I can tell you a million stories.”

Like his grandfather, Lofton has served everyone from politicians to celebrities to nearby Howard University students, tailoring their professional attire and outfits for events such as weddings, New Year’s Eve parties, and presidential inaugurations. But when the COVID-19 pandemic began, resulting in many people working remotely and countless in-person events being canceled, there wasn’t much of a need for tailoring, Lofton said — and some people weren’t able to afford their tailored items. Yet Lofton still needed to pay his tailors and the rent and bills for his shop.Fortunately, he applied for and received a $10,000 grant from Wells Fargo’s Open for Business Fund through Local Initiatives Support Corporation, allowing him to catch up on some of his bills.

“That $10,000 really helped me out,” Lofton said. “I’ll forever be grateful.”

‘Helping small businesses survive and position themselves to thrive’ Wells Fargo provided funding to LISC through the Open for Business Fund, which launched in July 2020, reinvesting $400 million in gross processing fees the bank would have received from the federal government for lending through the Paycheck Protection Program — a government stimulus program providing small businesses with short-term cash flow assistance — to further help entrepreneurs recover.

“This has been an opportunity for Wells Fargo to lean in and be a difference maker to help small businesses, so we’re delighted to work with LISC,” said Mary Mack, CEO of Con-

‘It helped me out tremendously’

sumer and Small Business Banking for Wells Fargo. “They’re doing fantastic work all over the country throughout the pandemic, helping small businesses survive and position themselves to thrive as we come out of this.”

LISC has used the funding from the Open for Business Fund to distribute grants to small businesses like JC Lofton Tailors, as well as invest in organizations that can help small businesses with technical assistance, said Maurice

Jones, CEO and president of LISC. “We particularly focused on small businesses led by people of color and women, as well as small businesses working in low-wealth and rural communities,” Jones said. “Those were the small businesses that, for us, were among the hardest hit and really needed the relief from groups like CDFIs. We have been using the Open for Business funds in a huge way to help small businesses.”

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‘It’s just an all-around struggle trying to stay afloat’ The $10,000 grant has been a relief for Lofton and has allowed him to continue his grandfather’s legacy. For years, Lofton’s grandfather taught veterans and people with disabilities how to tailor, but he also taught his grandchildren, several of whom have their own tailoring businesses today.

When Lofton received the $10,000, he said he was grateful to catch up on some of his bills.

“At the time, we were struggling so much, and it took a lot of the burden off of me,” Lofton said. “It helped me out tremendously.”

Lofton has four grown children and six grandchildren, some of whom have already expressed interest in running the business one day. Receiving help to get through these hard times will ensure that his grandfather’s legacy continues to live on.

“JC Lofton will be around for the next 100 years because we’re going to make sure we keep it going,” Lofton said.

“We feel good about where we are right now, and we’re looking forward to bigger and better things.”

Julius “Eddie” Lofton learned about the tailoring business from his late grandfather, Josephus C. Lofton, and named his shop JC Lofton Tailors in Washington, D.C., in honor of him.

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Black Entrepreneur Who Launched First African Pride Sneaker Celebrates 5 Years in Business

Tarik Edmonson, founder and CEO of Atlanta-based Nagast Footwear, has generated a worldwide buzz with his custom-designed sneakers Atlanta, GA — Nagast Footwear, a Black-owned sneaker company, was launched in late 2015 by entrepreneur Tarik Edmonson to honor and celebrate African heritage. Drawing inspiration from the PanAfrican flag created by Marcus Garvey in 1920, Tarik created the classic African Pride Canvas sneaker.

The combination of red, black, and green is more than just a color scheme; It is a political movement that calls for African control of African communities. These shoes are collector’s items that capture a moment in time back in December 2015 when Tarik made history by becoming the first to create an internationally successful sneaker line of this kind.

Since then, Nagast Footwear has launched countless other custom sneakers to commemorate the legacy of powerful Black leaders.

These sneakers are released in limited numbers and have consistently sold out since the first pair debuted. Upon the release of the Nat Turner Max, named after the Rebellion that is said to have expedited the coming of the Civil War, the shoe sold out within minutes.

“Our mission is to educate and inspire our people through fashion, our goal is for our brothers and sisters to walk in power with sneakers that represent our culture,” Tarik explains.

In honor of their 5 year anniversary, Nagast Footwear is launching an exclusive apparel line of “teachable wear”. This collection will feature innovative clothing that brings awareness to the power of Black history. The brand honors one of the greatest Black leaders Marcus Garvey, the revolutionary Huey P Newton, and the legendary MLK Jr. just to name a few.

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Michelle Obama Inducted into The Hall of Fame

by Aria Ellise, BDO Special Contributor

Former First Lady, Michelle Obama’s poise, beauty, sophistication, efforts and humbleness has been celebrated for years. Now, she is getting recognized for it. Mrs. Obama, who some affectionately call “our Forever First Lady” is headed to the Hall of Fame.

The National Women’s Hall of Fame called Obama “one of the most influential and iconic women of the 21st century,” noting she was the first Black woman to serve as first lady on top of her accomplishments as a lawyer, bestselling author and as an advocate for voting rights, nutrition and education.

The organization went on to say that, “both in and out of the White House,” the former first lady “has accomplished her initiatives and so much more.”

“During her eight years as First Lady, Michelle Obama helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, transforming the White House into the ‘People’s House.’” the organization stated. “Since leaving the White House, she has continued to have a profound public impact.”

The organization praised Obama for being a strong advocate for women and girls as she’s established multiple advocacy groups, including the Let’s Move!

program focused on ending childhood obesity, the Reach Higher initiative to help students discover better job opportunities, the Joining Forces organization for veterans and Let Girls Learn, a program to support adolescent girls’ education.

At the start of Let’s Move!, President Obama established the first-ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to develop a national action plan to mobilize the public and private sectors and engage families and communities in an effort to improve the health of our children.

During her tenure in the White House creating Let’s Move, Mrs. Obama: Transformed the school food environment through the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which updated school meal nutrition standards for the first time in 15 years and increased funding for the first time in 30 years. Through this law, American public schools offer healthier school meals and snacks for over 50 million kids. In addition, it increased the number of students who could get school meals at little or no cost.

Launched the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s MyPlate and MiPlato, easyto-understand icons based on the five

food groups, to help Americans make healthier choices.

Increased access to fruits and vegetables through Let’s Move! Salad Bars to Schools, providing 3 million students with a Created Let’s Move! Outside in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Interior to encourage kids and families to take advantage of America’s great outdoors. …and so much more!

The former first lady also released her best-selling personal memoir “Becoming” in 2018 and won the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word album.

Obama, 57, will be added alongside eight other women, including American soccer icon Mia Hamm, renowned science-fiction writer Octavia Butler, former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi and artists Joy Harjo and Judy Chicago.

Rebecca Halstead, the U.S. Military Academy’s first female graduate, will also be inducted, while famed NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and 20th century abolitionist Emily Howland will be posthumously inducted.

This year’s induction ceremony will be held in person on Oct. 2 with COVID-19 protocols at the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

The American Rescue Plan Provides Relief for Small Businesses

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

The White House on Tuesday released a fact sheet on President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, noting that millions of main street small businesses are struggling to make ends meet in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis.

The White House “especially noted” the struggles of Black- and Brown-owned businesses. Without additional government assistance, these challenges could worsen in the months ahead and the national vaccination program would be hobbled, administration officials noted.

The American Rescue Plan will change the course of the pandemic, deliver immediate relief for small businesses and American workers, and build a bridge towards economic recovery.

Many Americans already have received a $1,400 stimulus check, making good on President Biden’s pre-inaugural promise of $2,000 payments – Americans received $600 in the weeks prior to the new administration.

The White House fact sheet noted full support for small businesses through the current crisis. “Since the beginning of this pandemic, 400,000 small businesses have closed and millions more are hanging by a thread,” the administration offered in the

fact sheet.

“President Biden’s plan will provide emergency grants, lending, and investment to hard-hit small businesses so they can rehire and retain workers and purchase the health and sanitation equipment they need to keep workers safe,” the statement continued.

Further, the American Rescue Plan will: Deploy community navigators to in-

crease awareness of the participation in COVID-19 relief programs for small business owners who currently lack access, especially underserved entrepreneurs without banking relationships, lawyers, accountants, and consultants.

Allocate $15 billion in flexible grants to help the smallest, most severely impacted businesses persevere through the pandemic.

Provide $28 billion for a new grant program to support hard-hit small restaurants

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and other food and drinking establishments.

Bolster the Paycheck Protection Program with an additional $7.25 billion in funding to support small businesses and nonprofits that were previously excluded.

Devote an additional $1.25 billion in funding to support live venue operators, theatrical producers, live performing arts organization operators, museum operators, motion picture theatre operators, and talent representatives that are struggling

to make ends meet.

Invest $10 billion in successful state, local, and tribal small business financing programs to help small businesses innovate, create and maintain jobs, and provide the essential goods and services that communities depend on.

Help small businesses rehire and retain workers by extending the employee retention credit through the end of 2021.

In addition to providing direct relief to hard hit small businesses, the American Rescue Plan will bolster a whole-of-government COVID-19 response that will change the course of the public health crisis, administration officials wrote in the fact sheet.

The American Rescue Plan will “devote $1 trillion toward building a bridge to economic recovery for working families, including those who work for small businesses; and provide critical support to communities that are struggling in the wake of the pandemic.”

The White House concluded: “The American Rescue Plan will address the immediate crises facing small businesses. In the coming weeks, President Biden will lay out his economic recovery plan to invest in America, create millions of additional good-paying jobs, and build back better than before.”

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Monday, March 15, 2021 at 3:00PM.

Town of Bloomfield

Tribus Construction is seeking MBE contractors for the Market $23.40/hourly (benefited) Square Apartments renovation project in Newington CT. Tribus is seeking contractors in the following trades: laborers, painters, Pre-employment drug testing. AA/EOE. Invitation steel, to Bid: masonry, and HVAC. Please send all inquiries to dmitchFor Details go to www.bloomfieldct.gov 2nd Notice ell@tribusconstruction.com or call 203-286-5814.

Custodian

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE APARTMENTS FOR RENT

360 MANAGEMENT GROUP

241 Quinnipiac Avenue, New Haven Old Saybrook, CT Spacious 2 bedroom townhouses with (4 Buildings, 17 Units) hardwood floors. 1.5 baths. Select with Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project basements and washer/dryer hookups.

On-site laundry facility. Off street parking.New Close proximity to restaurants, Construction, Wood Framed,shopHousing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Castping centers and on bus line. No pets. Sein-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, curity deposit varies. $1,425-$1,450 360 Management Group is currently seeking bids for landscaping services. A complete Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, includes heat, hot water and cooking gas. copy of the requirement may be obtained from 360 Management’s Vendor CollaboraMechanical, Electrical, and Fire Protection.

Section 8 welcome.

Call Christine 860-Plumbing tion Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements.

985-8258.

Invitation for Bid Landscaping Services

Monday, March 22, 2021 at 3:00PM.

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 FIREFIGHTER Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 New Mansfield Elementary School - Mansfield, CT City of Bristol

Project documents available via ftp link below: O&G Industries is looking for DAS-certified minorities (must be pre-qualified http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage

$53,964/yr.

by DAS if work is over $500,000) to bid the above-referenced project as a subRequires valid CPAT Cert contractordawnlang@haynesconstruction.com or supplier of material. Project will bid to the Town of Mansfield on Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 issued or aftertheJune 1, 2020, 13,& 2021.

Aside Requirements: 25% SBE Subcontractors &/or SupHCConencourages participation of all Veteran,April S/W/MBE Section 3 Set Certified Businesses pliers; 6.25% MBE Subcontractors &/or Suppliers. Mansfield based certified written & oralHaynes tests.

Registration Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 businesses are encouraged to participate. information & apply online: AA/EEO EMPLOYER

www.bristolct.gov

DEADLINE: May 1, 2021 EOE

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Please e-mail Mark Carroll markcarroll@ogind.com for more information and to gain access to the plans.

O&G is an Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity Employer seeking all subcontractors/suppliers/vendors - MBE/WBE/SBE/DBE/Veterans/Disabled.

THEINNER-CITY INNER-CITY NEWS March , 2021 - March 2021 NEWS- July 27,24 2016 - August 02, 30, 2016

NOTICE WE ARE TAKING APPLICATIONS/RESUMES FOR THE

FOLLOWING POSTIONS IN OUR PORLTAND, CT LOCATION:

CDL Drivers – Class &B VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE-AAPPLICATIONS AVAILABLE Senior Project Manager – Environmental Division Compliance Manager HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, Technical Services Representative is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develData Entry Clerk opment located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apDiesel Mechanic ply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y Human Resources Assistant 25, 2016 andsubmit ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have Please questions/inquiries and resumes to HR@redtechllc.com

been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preis accepting applications for applications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Floor, New Haven, 06510. low income StateCT Elderly/Disabled housing. Annual income limit is

Coventry Housing Authority

$54,950 (one person) & 62,800 (two people). Interested parties may pick up an application at the NOTICIA Coventry Housing Authority, 1630 Main St., Coventry, CT, or have one mailed. Completed applications must VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES be postmarked or hand delivered no later than April 30th.

For more information call 860-742-5518.

HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) en las oficinas HOMEfor INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo aPrevious petición Full time Class de A driver petroleum deliveries for nights and weekends. llamando a HOME INCCompetitive al 203-562-4663 durante esas and horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán to: remitirse experience required. wage, 401(k) benefits. Send resume HR a las oficinas de HOME INC enP.171 Orange Street, tercer CT piso,06437.

New Haven , CT 06510 .

Manager, O. Box 388, Guilford,

Listing: Commercial Driver

********An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**********

Water Treatment Pumping Operators The Town of Wallingford’s Water NEW DivisionHAVEN is seeking candidates to perform responsible

technical work involving the operation, maintenance and treatment of the Town’s water 242-258 Fairmont Aveand meet one of following system. Candidates must have a H.S. diploma or equivalent experience2BR and certifi cation requirements: Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA 1. Water Treatment Plant Class IV Operator (WTP IV) certification with All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 (2) years of actual experience in a Class IV water treatment plant, or highways, near bus stop & shopping center 2. Water Treatment Plant Class IV Operating-in-Training (WTP IV OIT) certificaPet under 40lb Interestedinparties contact Mariatreatment @ 860-985-8258 tion with (3) years of allowed. actual experience a Class IV water plant, with the ability to obtain the WTP IV certification within (12) months from the date of hire, or 3. Water Treatment Plant Class III Operator (WTP III) certification with a minimum Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s ofCT. (4) years of qualifying experience. Qualifying experience means the operator has Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates “direct responsible charge” of aneeds.

ClassThe IIIcost treatment plant(s) with the ability to obtain the in response to the Church’s Ministry is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Davis, M.S., B.S. within (12) months from the date of hire.

Water Treatment Plant ClassJoe IVJ. Certifi cation (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster Wages: $27.98 - $33.96 hourly plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Applications St. New Haven, CT may be obtained at the Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main St., Wallingford, CT 06492. Applications will be mailed upon request from the Department of Human Resources or may be downloaded from the Department of Human Resources Web Page. Phone: (203) 294-2080. Fax: (203) 294-2084. The closing date will be April 6, 2021. EOE

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, Civil 2016 atEngineer its office at 28 Smith Street, Land Surveyor Boundaries is a full-service land surveying rm located Griswold, CT We are Seymour, LLC CT 06483 for Concrete SidewalkfiRepairs andin Replacement at the currently accepting resumes for the following positions: Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

Survey Field Technicians

A pre-bid conference willSurvey be heldOffi at ce theTechnicians Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Licensed SurveyorsJuly 20, 2016.

Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, onLand Wednesday,

DELIVERY PERSON

NEEDED

Part Time Delivery Needed One/Two Day a Week,

Must Have your Own Vehicle If Interested call

(203) 387-0354

Town of Bloomfield Finance Director Full Time - Benefited $96,755 to $149,345 Pre-employment drug testing.

For more details, visit our website – www.bloomfieldct.org

QSR STEEL CORPORATION

APPLY NOW!

Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Top pay for top performers. Health Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

The Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP) provides rental assistance to help lowincome persons afford decent and safe rental housing. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funds the program and Elm City Communities (ECC) administers it in the city of New Haven. Once an applicant is pulled from the waitlist HCVP will issued a rental voucher and the applicant is then free to locate a dwelling unit suitable to the family’s needs and desires in the private rental market.

REQUIREMENTS: Earnings must be between 0-50% of the Area Median Income (AMI) at the time the applicant is drawn from the waitlist. Please see the table below for specific income and household requirements. Placement on the waitlist will be based on the date and time the application is received with accommodations made for applications received by mail or hand delivery to give fair access. Applications will be date and time stamped as they are received.

The waiting list will be updated as needed to ensure that all applicants and applicant information is current and timely. To update your online application please follow the instructions below:

# of people in household Maximum

1 $35,950

2 $41,050

3 $46,200

4 $51,300

5 $55,450

6 $59,550

7 $63,650

Applications can be submitted or updated:

remain open.

DEADLINE: May 2021 Due Date: August 5, 2016 Bid1,Extended, EOE Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Project documents available via ftp link below: http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage

DELIVERY PERSON

THE GLENDOWER GROUP

Invitation for Bids Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com Architectural Design for 34 Level Street HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses

NEEDED

Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 The Glendower Group is currently seeking Proposals for Architectural Design AA/EEO EMPLOYER for 34 Level Street. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from

Part Time Delivery Needed One/Two Day a Week,

Bidding are available from the Seymour Housing Authority OfResumes documents will be accepted from 2/15/21 through 12/31/2021.

Interested parties can contact us at 860-376-2006 or submit your resume to jfaulise@boundariesllc.net fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

(203) 387-0354

The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any

Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) waitlist

Invitation to •Bid:Online at https://ecc.myhousing.com/ 2nd Notice FIREFIGHTER If you require a reasonable accommodation and would like to receive an SAYEBROOKE•VILLAGE City of Bristol Old Saybrook, CTapplication by mail, please call 475-355-7289 or send a written request to Attention: Waitlist Coordinator, Elm City (4 Buildings, 17 Units) Communities, PO Box 1912, New Haven, CT 06509 $53,964/yr.

Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project Requires valid CPAT Cert Applications received via mail will be based on a lottery process. issued on or afterWood JuneFramed, 1, 2020, New Construction, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Castwritten & oralin-place tests. Concrete, RegistraIf you need reasonable accommodation to complete the application call Asphalt Shingles, Vinyla Siding, tion 203-498-8800 ext. 1507 Casework, Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential informationMechanical, & apply online: Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. www.bristolct.gov will be available March 22, 2021 . The waitlist will This contract is subject to state set-aside andApplications contract compliance requirements.

Civil Engineers

Boundaries LLC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven is accepting applications as of March 22, 2021 for its

Must Have your Own Vehicle If Interested call

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Glendower’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on

Monday, March 8, 2021 at 3:00PM.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - March 24, 2021 - March 30, 2021 INNER-CITY NEWS July 27, 2016 - August 02, 2016

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc seeks:

Listing: Commercial Driver

Construction Equipment Mechanic preferably experienced in Reclaiming and Road Milling Equipment. We offer factory Immediate opening for a Class A part time driver for a petroleum training on equipment we operate. Location: Bloomfield CT and asphalt company for deliveries for nights and weekends.

We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Previous experience required. Competitive wage, 401(k). Send VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE Contact: Tom Dunay resume to: Manager, P. O. Box 388, Guilford, CT 06437.

Phone: 243-2300 HOME INC, on behalf of860Columbus House and the New Haven HousingHR Authority,

NOTICE

is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develEmail: tom.dunay@garrityasphalt.com ********An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer********** opment& located at 108 Frank Street, Haven. Maximum Women Minority Applicants are New encouraged to apply income limitations apply.Affi Pre-applications willEqual be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y rmative Action/ Opportunity Employer 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preGarrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Incoffices seeks: applications must be returned to HOME INC’s at 171 Orange Street,fast Third Extremely paced petroleum company needs a full time Reclaimer Operators Floor, New Haven,and CTMilling 06510.Operators with current licensing (which includes on call and weekend coverage) detail orientand clean driving record, be willing to travel throughout the Northed experienced Dispatcher. A strong logistics background east & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits

Listing: Dispatcher

NOTICIA

and a minimum of one year previous petroleum experience

required. Send resume to: Contact: Rick Tousignant Phone: 860- 243-2300 VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES Email: rick.touHR Manager, P.O. Box 388, Guilford, CT. 06437

signant@garrityasphalt.com HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply ********An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer********** aceptando pre-solicitudes estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo Affirmative Action/ para Equal Opportunity Employer

Plant Operator We are in need of a plant operator to oversee functions at our Asphalt Plant for our upcoming paving season. The ideal Plant Operator will have previous experience in an Asphalt Plant environment, but we are willing to train the right person. You will oversee the monitoring and operating of process control equipment. Pay is commensurate with experience. Please visit our website americanind.net for a full job description.

Apply in person or apply online at americanind.net. American Industries, Inc. is an AA/EOE.

American Industries, Inc. 630 Plainfield Road, Jewett City, CT 06351

CDL Truck Drivers

American Industries is seeking CDL Truck Drivers to join our team for our 2021

paving season! You will be responsible for safely operating a truck with a capacity of at least 26,000 lb. Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW). Drivers are home every day, sleeping in your own bed! Applicants must have a valid Class A or Class B CDL, medical card, ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos and pass a pre-employment drug test and background screening. Experience is helpful, máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 but we are willing to train qualified candidates who have a valid CDL license. Please julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) visit our website americanind.net for a full job description. en lasTrailer oficinasDriver de HOME INC. & Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas correo Materials a petición LLC, a quarry and paving contractor, has posiTractor for Heavy Highway Construction Equip- por Galasso Apply in person or apply online at americanind.net. American Industries, Inc. is an AA/ llamando HOME INCLicense, al 203-562-4663 duranterecord, esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán ment.

Must ahave a CDL clean driving capable of tions openremitirse for the upcoming construction season. We are seeking EOE. a las oficinas de equipment; HOME INCbe enwilling 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, , CT 06510 operating heavy to travel throughout theNew Haven candidates for 1) .Quality Control (experienced preferred), 2) Office American Industries, Inc. Northeast & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Clerks, 3) Truck/Scalehouse Dispatcher (experience and computer knowledge preferred) and 4) Equipment Operators and Laborers 630 Plainfield Road, Jewett City, CT 06351 and a Grading Foreman. NO PHONE CALLS. Please mail resume and cover letter to “Hiring Manager”, Galasso Materials LLC, PO Box 1776, East Granby, 06026.

HELP WANTED:

Union Company seeks:

Contact Dana at 860-243-2300

Email: dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer 242-258 Fairmont Ave

NEW HAVEN

Construction/Paving Laborers and Operators

ALL APPLICANTS WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR EMPLOYMENT WITHOUT ATTENTION TO RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENnd DER IDENTITY, NATIONAL ORIGIN, VETERAN OR DISABILITY STATUS.

2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA

NOTICE OF INVITATION FOR BID HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF DANBURY Landscaping Services IFB No. B21001 All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 highways, near bus stop & shopping center Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258

CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster St. New Haven, CT

SCOPE:

The Housing Authority of the City of Danbury hereby issues this Invitation for Bid to provide Landscaping Services PRE-BID WALK-THROUGH: Glenbids Apartments, 25 the Memorial Drive, Danbury, CTof06811 Sealed are invited by Housing Authority of the Town Seymour 20212,at2016 2:00pm until 3:00 pm on March Tuesday,22, August at its(EST) office at 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 for Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the BIDConcrete SUBMITTAL RETURN: Housing Authority of Assisted the City ofLiving Danbury, 2 Mill26 Ridge Rd,Street Danbury, CT 06811 Smithfield Gardens Facility, Smith Seymour.

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

Envelope Must be Marked: IFB No.B21001, Landscaping Services

A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

SUBMITTAL DEADLINE Bidding documents30, are available Seymour Housing Authority OfMarch 2021from atthe10:00am (EST) fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

CONTACT PERSON FOR IFB DOCUMENT: Ms.Housing Devin Marra, Director of Procurement,Telephone: 203-744-2500 The Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or allx1410 bids, to E-Mail: dmarra@hacdct.org reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any [Minority- and/or women-owned businesses are encouraged to respond]

informalities in the bidding, if such actions are in the best interest of the Housing Authority.

InvitationWe to Bid: are looking to fill open Laborer and Operator positions on our Construction and 2 Notice Paving crews. The job of a laborer varies, changing from day to day. They perform

a variety of duties involving tool use, lifting, carrying, and managing equipment and SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE machinery to provide support and aid to the skilled craftspeople on-site. Experience is

Town of Bloomfield

Old Saybrook, a plus,CT but willing to train the right candidates. Operator Candidates must have experi-

Maintainer II - Driver (4 Buildings,ence 17 Units) running all sizes of equipment such as, minis, large and small excavators, dozers, loaders, and Project paving equipment (Material Transfer Machines, Pavers, Rollers, etc.).

Exemptted & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Full-time,Tax benefi Please visit our website americanind.net for a full job description. $27.94 hourly Apply in person or apply online at americanind.net American Industries,

New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, CastPre-employment drug testing.

Inc. is an AA/EOE. For details and how to apply go to Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, in-place Concrete, American Industries, Inc. www.bloomfi Flooring, Painting,eldct.org Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, 630 Plainfi eld Road, Jewett City, CT 06351 AA/EOE Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection.

This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements.

Town of Bloomfield

State of Connecticut

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Zoning Enforcement Officer Office of Policy and Management Anticipated Full-time, benefi ted Start: August 15, 2016 Project documents available via ftp link below: $38.03 hourly http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage

The State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management is recruiting for a Pre-employment drug testing.

Chief Administrative Officer and an Executive Secretary position.

For details and how to apply go to www. information regarding the duties, eligibility requirements and Faxbloomfi or Email eldct.org Questions &AA/EOE Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372Further dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com

QSR

application HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businessesinstructions are available at: Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 https://www.jobapscloud.com/CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= STEEL CORPORATION 210317&R2=0447MP&R3=001 AA/EEO EMPLOYER and

APPLY NOW!

Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Top pay for top performers. Health Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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https://www.jobapscloud.com/CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= 200317&R2=3594SE&R3=001 The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

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