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Alternative Graduation Idea: Class Trees

by EMILY HAYS

New Haven I ndependent

Metropolitan Business Academy senior Adrian Huq came up with an alternative idea for marking graduation in lieu of inperson commencement or good-byes: a parting gift in the form of a class tree.

Huq, who cofounded New Haven Climate Movement, is a school outreach intern at Urban Resources Initiative, which provided the gift as part of its free tree-planting program. The tree will be planted at some point this summer on the Metro school grounds. URI and Yale Forestry School are offering to do the same for schools and students systemwide.

“We went from asking schools to promote it to using the free tree to honor graduates from the class of 2020, who wouldn’t have a traditional graduation,” Huq said.

New Haven Public Schools is working on a safe ceremony for high school seniors, according to Assistant Superintendent Paul Whyte. The current plan is to have high schoolers drive up to an outdoor stage. Seniors would exit their vehicles one by one to walk across the stage and receive their diplomas, Whyte

said.

Huq has reached out to New Haven high schools and middle schools about the graduation trees. So far, their own school, Metropolitan, as well as the Sound School, Amistad High School and New Haven Academy have expressed interest, according to Huq. Graduates and their families can request a tree to be planted near their homes, too.

“This is something folks can do from home to make an impact,” Huq said.

“Unlike some of the big initiatives we’re pushing, this can be implemented in a few months.”

Trees are a key way cities and individuals can reduce carbon emissions, Huq noted. The program is especially important for low-income neighborhoods that have far less tree canopy than wealthy neighborhoods nationwide. Huq pointed to the lush vegetation on Hillhouse Avenue as an example of this.

“It creates a more attractive environment and people want to go outside more. Tress can provide not only climate resilience but also shade and comfort,” Huq said.

URI’s goal is to plant 1,000 trees a year,

well over the 500 trees cut down annually in the city through new construction and telephone line maintenance.

Reaching out to King Robinson, where Huq started kindergarten, has helped them feel that they are making an impact on their school system, despite the fact that many goals remain unfinished.

Huq wanted to help NHPS set up a recycling route for school recycling bins.

School budgets and other issues facing the school board have kept Huq from completing that goal.

Huq was working on a school compost program and other ways of dealing with waste from cafeterias too. Covid-19 school closures and the urgency of distributing food to families interrupted that rollout.

“I will still keep New Haven schools in mind during my career. I will keep thinking of them and helping if I can,” Huq said.

Huq plans to attend Tufts University in the fall and start a major in environmental studies. They envision a career as a sustainability specialist for organizations and corporations, while continuing environmental activism on the side.

Youth climate activist Adrian Huq.

Andrea Jackson-Brooks Way Marks Lifetime Of Public Service

by MAYA MCFADDEN New Haven I ndependent

Families, friends, and mentees of former Hill Alder and State Rep. Andrea Jackson-Brooks joined together Saturday at what is now known as Andrea Jackson-Brooks Way, the corner of Spring Street and Dewitt Street.

The longtime New Haven leader was honored for her many stints of public service: She represented Ward 4 on the Board of Alders for 15 years, served two terms as state representative for New Haven’s 95th Connecticut General Assembly District, worked as former Mayor John DeStefano’s executive assistant, served as an assistant in the state comptroller’s office, and chaired the board of the Cornell Scott Hill Health Center.

Loved ones and city officials gathered outside of Jackson-Brooks’ home on the corner of Spring and Dewitt with posters as she watched from her second-floor balcony.

Police Chief Otoniel Reyes, former Mayor Toni Harp, Ward 4 Alder Evelyn Rodriguez, Mayor Justin Elicker, State Rep. Rosa DeLauro, and others spoke about working closely with JacksonBrooks during her lifelong services for the state.

“She made a lot of us leaders. Her legacy has been in us, but now it is physical too,” Rodriguez said.

Jackson-Brooks’s oldest son, Daniel

MAYA MCFADDEN PHOTOS Gant (above right), accepted the formal ordinance from Rodriguez for his mother’s accomplishment.

Rodriguez reminisced on being a mentee of Jackson-Brooks while she was alder. “She pushed me to respect everyone, do my best, and always invest with my neighbors,” she said.

Rodriguez learned a new definition of commitment and public service watching Jackson-Brooks work as alder. Many

recalled Jackson-Brooks’s huge heart and work ethic.

The family members who now take care of Jackson-Brooks joined the celebration of the new name of the corner and Gant’s birthday.

Gant stood beside his father, kids, nieces, and nephews while expressing how proud he is of his mother. “This is us. We come from a legend. She taught us well and instilled strength in us,” he said.

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Rev. Bonita Grubbs (pictured) closed the gathering with a prayer after recalling times with Jackson-Brooks, who is her close friend. The two played basketball together; she reminisced about their trips to watch the CT Sun women’s basketball team at the Mohegan Sun Arena.

“There was nothing that could stop me from being a part of this history,” said Gant’s friend Kim Crabbe, who traveled from North Carolina to New Haven for

the celebration.

Chief Reyes spoke at the gathering about growing up in the Hill. His first encounter with Jackson-Brooks was when she approached him as a rookie officer after making a traffic stop. Jackson-Brooks told Reyes about the importance of the Hill and invited him to work with her some time to get to know her neighbors.

“She’s a Hill dog forever,” Reyes said.

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INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS & IDEAS NAMES SHELLEY QUIALA NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Upon the unanimous recommendation of the Board of Directors, following an international search process guided by Arts Consulting Group, Chair Gordon Geballe has announced that Shelley Quiala will be the next Executive Director of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, effective August 1, 2020.

Quiala comes to the International Festival of Arts & Ideas from the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she has worked since 2003. For the past six years, she served as Vice President in Programming, Education and Community Engagement in this multifaceted organization. She is widely known for her commitment to equity in the field of performing arts.

“On behalf of the entire Board, I am delighted to congratulate and welcome Shelley Quiala to the International Festival of Arts & Ideas,” said Board Chair Gordon Geballe. “Shelley’s remarkable track record over the course of nearly two decades at the Ordway Center––particularly in the areas of executive management, fundraising, program development, social impact, and community engagement––uniquely qualifies her to lead the next chapter of the Festival.”

At the Ordway, Quiala led a team that programmed and produced concerts, comedy, dance, and educational programming that reached more than 150,000 people annually. She worked with colleagues and community to grow the Flint Hills Family Festival over more than two decades as a national and international model. During her tenure at the Ordway, the participation in school programming grew by more than 50 percent to reach more than 60,000 youth each year. She also led major initiatives in bilingual programming and community engagement work that centered the nar-

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ratives of Black, Indigenous and People of Color. She managed a statewide arts awards program for impact in the arts, championed socioeconomic access and led collaborations with universities, community centers, and school districts.

Prior to her work at the Ordway, Shelley worked with Teatro del Pueblo, a Latinx theater company in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In her former role as a board member for the International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY), she co-led professional development with the executive director. She is currently a board member of TYA-USA Theater for Young Audiences, US division (TYA-USA) where she is active in supporting their annual festival and conference. Committed to reducing barriers to arts and educational participation, she is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences.

Quiala graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities with a double major in Spanish

and Performance as a Medium for Social Change. She put herself through school and was able to study in both Cuba and Venezuela as an undergraduate.

“New Haven is filled with a spectrum of diversity and creativity and is rich with opportunities to co-create new pathways forward,” said Shelley Quiala.

“I am thrilled to be able to build on the Festival’s extraordinary foundation with a talented staff, vibrant community, and visionary board of directors.”

“The Festival already has exceeded even the wildest dreams Anne Calabresi, Jean Handley, and I had when we started it in 1996,” said Co-Founder Roslyn Meyer.

“I couldn’t be more delighted to welcome Shelley Quiala to lead us into our next quarter century of thrilling art and visionary ideas here in New Haven.”

Quiala succeeds Liz Fisher and Tom Griggs who have served as Co-Directors of the Festival since 2017. Fisher, who has worked for the Festival for more than 20 years, and Griggs, who joined the staff in 2014 after serving on the Festival Board for several years, announced their retirements last fall. They plan to assist in the leadership transition over the course of the next year.

“Liz Fisher and Tom Griggs have led the Festival with keen intelligence, infectious joyfulness, and an extraordinary commitment to delivering the best experience possible year after year for artists and audiences alike,” said Geballe.

“That may be no more apparent than it is this year, when they and the entire staff devised a 25th Anniversary Season that celebrates our past, our present moment, and looks ahead to a future when we can all gather together again. They are special people and will be sorely missed, although I’m certain we will see them both at Festivals well into the future.”

University of New Haven Announces Launch of Connecticut Institute of Technology

-- The institute, which will be part of the Tagliatela College of Engineering, will foster collaboration and interdisciplinary research across the university, effectively incorporating critical knowledge in cybersecurity, computing, data science, and AI across all programs --

The University of New Haven announced today it is launching the Connecticut Institute of Technology (Connecticut Tech) as part of a university-wide effort to bring together some of its most cutting-edge disciplines to create a technology hub that fosters interdisciplinary exploration and innovation.

“Our goal is to reinforce our standing as a destination university for technology education and research in the northeast,” said President Steven H. Kaplan. “Groundbreaking efforts like this are critical to preparing our students for careers of the future that haven’t yet been envisioned. We pride ourselves as a university on being forward-thinking and market-driven, and I am enormously optimistic, excited and proud that the University of New Haven will be leading this effort.”

Connecticut Tech will be comprised of the university’s undergraduate and graduate programs in cybersecurity and net-

works, computer science, data science, and electrical and computer engineering, as well as several research groups. The mission is to foster a technology hub that features an intense focus on applied learning and research.

Over the last few years, the university’s cybersecurity and networks program has gained significant national visibility under the leadership of Ibrahim (Abe) Baggili, Elder Family Chair and an internationally recognized expert in cybersecurity, who was appointed director of the Institute.

In 2019, the National Security Agency recognized the university as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations, a designation earned by only 21 universities in the country. The university also received a $4 million Scholarship for Service grant from the National Science Foundation to help prepare cybersecurity professionals for federal, state, and tribal government agencies.

“Through Connecticut Tech, we are planting a flag that signals we will be the tech and education hub for the state of Connecticut,” says Baggili. “We are going to play a pivotal role in stimulating the state’s economy, and, beyond that, generating the highest quality students and research in the areas of cybersecurity, computing, and AI. “We will be catalyzing a new breed of education in Connecticut that fosters technology-enabled innovation and, as always, produces graduates in areas that are in high-demand,” Baggili added.

The Institute will foster collaboration and interdisciplinary research across all colleges and schools at the university by incorporating cybersecurity, computing, data science, and AI into non-engineering programs.

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Newhallville Pantry Feeds Hundreds Of Neighbors, Many Newly “On The Edge”

by SAM GURWITT

New Haven I ndependent

Caleb Davis would not normally rely on a food pantry to keep his shelves at home stocked. These are not normal times.

On Thursday, Davis found himself among the hundreds of people who stopped by Argyle Street to pick up a bag of food from the Believe In Me Empowerment Corporation (BIMEC).

Davis worked as a teaching assistant helping children with autism at the YMCA on Howe Street. The pandemic has put him out of a job.

“I work for 13 years, and now I have to come to a food bank,” he said as he stood in line waiting to pick up his bag.

Newhallville and Dixwell residents showed up by foot and by car to pick up boxes and bags of donated food Thursday.

BIMEC would usually hold its food pantry on the third Thursday of the month. This week was the organization’s second pantry of the month, as the demand for food grows amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Volunteers prepared 300 boxes of food to load into cars, each with enough food for five meals. They prepared 100 blue “BIMEC” bags for walkers.

The line snaked around the corner from the Dixwell Avenue entrance to BIMEC, where volunteers took names and handed out bags, onto Argyle Street.

In the street, next to those on foot, cars were backed up to Shelton Avenue. In the middle of the Argyle Street block, a group of volunteers from Saint Matthews Unison Free Will church, a stone’s throw from BIMEC, hauled “U-Haul” boxes of peanut butter, canned vegetables, and other goods into the trunks and back seats of cars.

After a few minutes, they got help.

Mayor Justin Elicker (pictured above, center) walked down Argyle from the corner with Dixwell, where he had given a short press conference for a few television cameras, along with Newhallville/ Prospect Hill Alder Steve Winter (above, left). They greeted the people waiting in line and then picked up boxes and began loading them into the trunks of cars.

Although the group from St. Matthews could have handled the boxes without the mayor’s extra pair of arms, the assis-

Volunteers from St. Matthews.

SAM GURWITT PHOTO Tonja Colvin and Zhanelle Douglass, both volunteers from Varick Memorial

AME Zion Church, with Caleb Davis.

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tance was appreciated.

“It boosts us up,” said Roger X as he walked away from the pantry with a blue “BIMEC” bag, gesturing over his shoulder to where Elicker was standing.

Having the mayor show up gives people a little hope because it shows he cares, X said.

X (pictured) said he is barely scraping by. He’s a mechanic; he hasn’t been able to work since the pandemic hit. He said he has three kids to feed; he can’t get unemployment insurance.

“I can’t get evicted, but I’m on the edge of …” he trailed off. “Ain’t nothing you can do but hunker down.”

Luckily there are people like those at the BIMEC pantry who are helping hold people up, he said.

Olga Lacano and Fanny Orellano work in a nail salon. So, with salons closed as part of the governor’s effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus, they have no income.

“Like this,” said Lacano, shrugging and looking down at the bag she was carrying when asked how she makes ends meet. “Don’t have money for rent … nothing.”

The lines of cars and people on foot began to shrink after about 20 minutes. In the lull, suddenly there were more volunteers than there were clients to feed.

After a minute or so without any cars, a driver pulled up to the tables laden with U-Haul boxes on Argyle street. Music pumped out of the car’s open window.

Minister Diane Holmes of St. Matthews started to dance, first with just her head, then moving down to her shoulders, then with her whole body. Marietta King, Stephanie Roberts, and Erma Smith laughed. One pretended to pour lemonade over her to “bring her back” to reality.

BIMEC Executive Director James Walker had asked the church if anyone could come volunteer, said King. St. Matthews was just one church that had sent volunteers. Volunteers from Varick Memorial AME Zion Church were handing out bags to people on foot about 100 feet away.

“With this Covid going on, it just proves that the church is not inside the four walls,” said King. “It’s outside.”

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Redemption Reopening Revives A Lifeline

by NORA GRACE-FLOOD New Haven I ndependent

Bottle and can redemption centers at retail outlets reopened after two months this weekend, with new distancing rules that left some collectors indignant and others relieved.

Despite differences in opinion, consumers and collectors of Poland Spring, Coca Cola, and, yes, Corona lined up outside of Hamden supermarkets with shopping carts and trash bags overflowing with redeemable recyclables.

“People are buying bottles daily. What are we supposed to do with them?” said one man, who declined to be named.

He revealed that his van was full of Budweisers consumed over the past two months, noting that “Coronas are too expensive.”

By Friday morning, the first day many redemption centers reopened at Hamden supermarkets, he had already committed more than four hours to recycling the cans at the Stop and Shop and ShopRite outlets across from each other on Dixwell Avenue.

Depending on the store, the new regulations state that only one or two patrons can enter the center at once. Individuals can spend no more than 15 minutes in the room. Only so many bottles can be redeemed in one session.

“They’re only letting one person in at a time. It’s ridiculous!” complained Yolanda Longeardi, who was third in line when the ShopRite center reopened Friday at 9 a.m.

She said she had visited a West Haven facility a few weeks ago that remained open through the pandemic, but discovered a line of people stretching around the block. She turned around and drove home.

“They’ve been charging us extra without letting us redeem the items,” she reasoned. “They should have waived the five cent fee so long as centers remained shut.”

“It’s just money in the bank that we haven’t had,” said another woman on line.

Over at Stop and Shop, another group praised the new rules.

Mary Seeru (pictured), 80, expressed gratitude and support concerning the store’s choices to open slowly and cautiously.

Seeru was recently diagnosed with cancer, forcing her to take a break from her job at, coincidentally, ShopRite.

Last in a long line, she calmly stated that “whatever has to be done to keep everyone safe is what’s best.”

Julia Harper (pictured), who is diabetic and has obsessive compulsive disorder, had not been to a bottle redemption facility in over four years before this Sunday.

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sponse to the pandemic. Compared to those with full shopping carts, she stood in line with nothing but one black garbage bag.

Though Harper continues to feel “nervous” about leaving the house, she depends on the income and structure provided by her job at the Dollar General.

She added with a soft smile, “if I didn’t go to work, my walls would not be walls

anymore. I would tear them down and repaint them and everything.”

The distancing standards were the only reason she “felt OK deciding to come redeem the bottle deposits,” she said.

To cope with everything that has been going on, Harper has thought up other sustainable hobbies to divert her attention beyond recycling.

“I have seven potato plants!” she said.

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Rockin’ it with the NBA ORLANDO MAGIC!

Andrea Brown—North Haven Black Girl Magic!

By Dwight Bachman

New Haven I ndependent

COVID-19 may have created social distancing for Eastern students, faculty and staff, but the virus has not stopped Eastern alumni from doing a terrific job of staying in touch with their former professors. I caught up with Andrea Brown ’08, who, using the Microsoft Teams video conference platform, recently interacted with students in classes taught

by Kinesiology and Physical Education Professor Charlie Chatterton.

On April 27, Brown called into Chatterton’s Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Communications in Sports class, part of his department’s Sports and Leisure Program. Brown serves as director of premium services for the Orlando Magic NBA professional basketball team. A director of premium services does just that—treat customers like pure gold! Brown leads a team of 8 people in developing strategies that provides legendary, world class service to all premium account holders on multiple levels of the Amway Center in Orlando. She helps to increase the retention of her customers, generate revenue and also to create long-term enthusiasm

among Orlando Magic fans.

Brown, who said she has “always wanted to work for an NBA,” told the students to “Take advantage of ALL opportunities!” At Eastern, she was a resident assistant, which helped her transition into a hall director role in graduate school at Old Dominion University, where she earned her Masters of Education degree. “This opportunity allowed me to have a portion of my college tuition paid for as well as room and board.

Internship opportunities at the Connecticut Sun WNBA, UConn Athletics Operations and ESPN Wide World of Sports also led me to gaining more skills in my field and help me build the foundation for my career.”

Brown started working with the Orlando Magic in 2010 as a client service representative, managing general season ticket holder accounts. In 2013, she transitioned into a premium club level manager, and in 2018, into senior premium service manager. Last August, she was promoted to director of premium services.

Brown said Eastern’s liberal arts education taught her “organization, critical

thinking, professionalism, communication skills and service to community, all of which prepared me well you for my professional and personal life. She told the students to “Create a plan and vision for yourself and don’t ever give up!”

For more on the fun Brown is having in sunny Florida, visit www.orlandomagic. com Chatterton said Eastern is very fortunate to have alumni such as Brown and others who are always willing to give back to the Sports and Leisure Management Program by speaking with current students when he needed to modify classes to go online. “It was a pure joy to see happy, successful alumni show their love by expressing gratitude to Eastern. They were happy to help on short notice.. They provided great insights to the students as professionals in the field.

They are talented professionals and their willingness to continuously share their experiences, expertise, perspective and time. It is wonderful to see our alumni adjust their schedules during these challenging times to give our students such an educational treat,” said Chatterton.

Child Care Providers Struggle To Stay Afloat As Parents Contemplate Safety

by Christine Stuart Ct. News Junkie

Connecticut is reopening and parents are heading back to work, but finding child care has been complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Parents worry whether it’s safe to bring their child to a group setting. At the same time, child care providers have been hit hard by the pandemic and at least one study shows that many may not be able to keep their doors open — even though they never were ordered to close.

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A survey by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) before the COVID-19 pandemic, found that just 11% of providers could survive a closure of an indeterminate length of time without government support — and only 27% could survive a month-long closure.

If those numbers are accurate, it means Connecticut could lose an estimated 46,000 licensed child care slots.

Providers want to continue operating, but the ongoing threat of infection means they will have to do it at a reduced capacity.

How they make up the difference will matter.

“Our teachers want to come back to work,” Dr. Monette Ferguson, executive director of ABCD, Inc. in Bridgeport, said.

“But what they’re telling us is they want to be safe and they want to know that when they come back to work that the environment will be the same loving and nurturing

COURTESY OF ZOOM Monette Ferguson, executive director of ABCD, Inc, in Bridgeport

environment that they were used to.”

She said it’s up to providers to create the safest environment they can so they can go back to caring for the children. That will mean access to personal protective equipment and smaller class sizes.

At the moment, the Centers for Disease Control is recommending 10 children per class.

Ferguson said it’s undeniable now that child care is one of the most important parts of the economy.

She said they want to ensure their client families are safe and their staff is safe. She said transparency is really important when it comes to assuring parents that things are

safe.

At the moment, child care workers are not members of the “high-priority” workers the state is looking to test.

Dr. Deidre Gifford, the acting commissioner of the Department of Public Health, said last week that child care centers do report infections to the department and ‘it’s a very, very small number of cases that we have seen.”

She said in the first phase of high-priority testing the “daycare workers are not specifically called out, but as we continue our reopening strategy and we continue to add to our testing capacity, all types of frontline workers will begin to develop guidance and

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recommendations for.”

If a child care worker is suspected of having COVID-19, they are able to get priority testing, but testing is not being done on a regular basis.

Office of Early Childhood Commissioner Beth Bye said there have been few cases in early child care, and all cases are reported to DPH. Bye said at least 1,552 child care providers have remained open through the pandemic, following the hand-washing, temperaturetaking, and cleaning protocols provided by the state.

“We agree that it’s important that people have confidence,” Bye said. It’s been particularly challenging for a group of businesses that was already struggling before the pandemic. Bye pointed out that the profit margins are “razor thin. … We’re saying to the programs that were barely making it, ‘You can take half as many kids, and by the way, 70 percent of parents are nervous about sending their kids back to group settings.’”

She said it could take six to 12 months for parents to feel comfortable returning, but many programs won’t be able to last that long without funding and would likely close.

“The usual demand is down and we cut their supply in half,” Bye said. “There’s no way they can make it.”

The state is offering some child care programs funding through June 30.

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro plans to pitch $50 billion in funding for child care centers

to help make sure they stay afloat until kids can return. She said she’s going to propose the funding Wednesday as part of an emergency appropriations bill.

Kristy DeConti, owner of Natural Learning Community Children’s School in Simsbury, isn’t optimistic, the funding will come through.

“As a woman-run business, the people in government don’t understand why child care is essential,” DeConti said.

DeConti said she closed her school in March and the families who have agreed to stay with her as long as she doesn’t open too soon have been paying 25% of their tuition to help her pay the rent.

She said her employees are collecting unemployment and when she does decide to reopen, the new safety restrictions mean she will have to close her infant room and lose three preschool slots.

Kristi Sue, a parent of a preschooler, said she did everything she could to protect her child including withdrawing him a few days early from school and he still ended up getting the virus.

She said she’s nervous about sending her child back to preschool because he’s still having residual effects from the virus, like difficulty breathing. Also it’s impossible, Sue said, for children to social distance in a classroom.

She said she may feel comfortable sending him to kindergarten in the fall, but it will depend on the measures the school system takes.

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Rally Demands Yale, YNHH Pay “Fair Share”

by THOMAS BREEN

New Haven I ndependent

A newly formed coalition of students, immigrant rights activists, environmentalists, and labor organizers called on Yale University and Yale New Haven Hospital to be “on the right side of history” by increasing financial contributions to a struggling city.

That was the message at the heart of an in-person social-distance protest and press conference held Tuesday afternoon outside of Yale’s Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall at 1 Prospect St. Wearing face masks and standing well over six feet apart, nine participants took their turns at the microphone to issue their collective pleas to the university and the hospital to up their annual voluntary payments to the city.

Each participant argued that the two large, wealthy nonprofits should make up for the property taxes they do not have to pay on many of their properties by giving more to the city each year.

Echoing the dozens of New Haveners who voiced similar concerns during the recent city budget hearings, they said that New Haven has long suffered from great income inequality, racial and economic segregation, and structurally underfunded municipal finances.

The Covid-19 pandemic has made all of those problems worse, they said, thereby amplifying the urgency for Yale and YNHH to contribute more.

“I am not here because I would rather call out tyranny than be home prioritizing school and my family, but because it is necessary,” said Kiana Flores, an 11th grade student at Co-Op and a lead organizer with the New Haven Climate Movement.

“We are in a pivotal time in New Haven’s history where we cannot bear this burden any longer. These funds are more than money. It is a need for justice. For many, it can be the difference between life and death. So Yale, we need you to be on the right side of history. The people’s side. Pay your fair share.”

According to a new online petition put out by the event’s organizers Tuesday afternoon, the coalition of New Haveners calling on Yale and YNHH to “pay their fair share” consists of 18 local organizations, including New Haven Rising, Local 34 UNITE HERE, New Haven Public Schools Paraprofessionals Union Local 3429, New Haven Public School Advocates, New Haven Climate Movement, Semilla Collective, and Yale College Democrats.

The 40-minute presser came hours before the Board of Alders is slated to take a final vote on next fiscal year’s budget.

The amended version referred out of the aldermanic Finance Committee earlier this month included $7 million in cuts to Mayor Justin Elicker’s $569.1 million general fund proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 (FY21). It also included a $2.5 million “Revenue Initiative” line item. Committee alders explicitly stated that they inserted that line in the budget as a way to pressure Yale University and other large institutional partners like the hospital

to contribute more to city finances.

The mayor’s proposed budget indicates that Yale University will contribute $13 million and YNHH will contribute $2.8 million in voluntary payments to the city next fiscal year, which starts July 1. In

past statements, university and hospital top administrators and spokespeople have pointed to the millions of dollars each year that the institutions do pay in property taxes on their taxable holdings, as well as to philanthropic endeavors directly targeted

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at supporting low-income New Haveners, like the creation and funding of New Haven Promise.

“Aside from the significant financial challenges of taking on COVID-19 directly, today Yale New Haven Health remains the largest taxpayer in Connecticut, paying more than $300 million a year,” YNHH Senior Vice President Vin Petrini told the Independent in an email statement Tuesday afternoon. “At the same time, we have provided $30 million in voluntary payments to New Haven over the last decade. In addition, we pay nearly $6 million in property taxes to the city annually, contribute to critical community programs like New Haven Promise and we are working collaboratively to drive down employee health care costs.”

In a statement issued in early March in response to Elicker’s call for Yale to contribute more to city coffers, Yale President Peter Salovey said the university’s “$12 million voluntary payment in the most recent fiscal year was the highest from a university to a host city anywhere in the United States, and represented a 44 percent increase from the payment we made just three years earlier. And that is only one part of what Yale gives directly to the city.

In that same year, we paid $5 million in property taxes on our non-academic properties (making us the city’s third-highest taxpayer).”

In an email Tuesday, Yale spokesperson Karen Peart also pointed to this list of the university’s local response to the Covid-19 pandemic so far. “We are dedicated to continue standing united with and working in concert with New Haven,” she wrote.

The speakers at Tuesday afternoon’s presser vociferously disagreed with the notion that the university and YNHH are doing enough to balance out for property taxes they legally do not have to pay.

NHPS Advocates organizers and lifelong New Havener Sarah Miller said that the Covid-19 crisis has disproportionately hurt black and brown residents in predominantly working class neighborhoods. She said she frequently hears about families in Fair Haven, where she has lived for 20 years, unable to put food on the table and on the edge of homelessness.

“This fundamental structural imbalance is not an accident of history,” she said. “Rather, it is a result of history. And a big part of this history which stares us in the face all over town is Yale’s enormous property footprint, for which they pay very limited taxes.”

She said that lost property tax revenue could go towards funding city schools, public health, housing, parks, public safety, libraries, the arts, and training for green jobs.

“Instead, it was rolled into Yale’s already multi-billion dollar endowment.”

She called on the university and the hospital to “collaborate with us in a new spirit of partnership to advance education and improve health” outside of the walls of Yale University.

Elizabeth Gonzalez (pictured) agreed. She

said she is a mother of four and wife who works part-time cleaning office buildings and is an organizer with the Semilla Collective. She joined the immigrant rights mutual aid organization in March after her family received a box of food and an envelope of cash to help them survive their newfound job and food insecurity during the Covid-19 crisis.

“If the hospital and Yale pay their fair share of taxes, our city will have a better opportunity to help residents of New Haven really face this food crisis,” she said.

Jaidy Gonzalez, a senior at Wilbur Cross High School and a member of Connecticut Students for a Dream, said that her family too has benefited from food, cash, and mutual aid provided by the Semilla Collective.

She has started volunteering with Semilla to help predominantly Spanish-speaking families survive Covid-19.

What would she say to Yale about how that institution can best help New Haveners during this time of crisis?

“Just to not sit on their butts and just actually help us out,” she said. “They’re just sitting on their little throne, sipping wine and doing whatever they want. We’re here struggling to maintain our families and helping each other out as a community. We want to taste that little wine from them.”

Newly graduated Yale College student and former Yale College Democrats member Esul Burton (pictured at the top of this article) expressed a similar sentiment.

“Imagine what would be possible if these resources were available to all,” she said, referencing the housing refund and mental health care coverage she received from the university to help her and fellow students after the university shut down in-person classes in mid-March.

“Now is the time for Yale and YNHH to take bold action to make sure everyone in our city has opportunity, freedom, and dignity,” said longtime public school paraprofessional Albert Austin.

Ward 6 Democratic Ward Committee CoChair and longtime Hill resident Helen Martin-Dawson (pictured) said that’s only possible if New Haveners keep up the pressure on the two large local institutions. “I don’t want Yale to own all of New Haven,” she said. “But that’s what it’s beginning to look like.”

New Haven Rising lead organizer Scott Marks rounded out the press conference with a call for all city residents to sign onto the coalition’s petition and for any interested local organization to reach out and band together to amplify the group’s message and demands.

“We’ve got to change the maps of segregated development,” he said, referencing the overlap between redlining maps from the 1930s, foreclosure maps from 2008, and Covid-19 hotspot maps from 2020.

“We need to make sure that Yale University and Yale Hospital step up and lead the way in order to change this never-ending racism that exists in these neighborhoods that causes us not to have the kind of lives that we need.”

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How to Plan a Backyard Vacation

Make a backyard staycation plan. Put together a gentle schedule with a mixture of activities that your family will enjoy like dining, camping and games. Add a theme for the week, day or evening. A luau theme can be carried through with costumes, food and activities. A sports theme can have everyone in team jerseys and doing sports activities. Use creative names for meals and activities to spice things up. Even you don’t have a pool, children’s water play misters or sprinklers can help everyone cool off in the backyard (provided your area is not under drought conditions).

Map where activities will occur in the yard. A lawn area may be the site of a soccer game, bocce ball or croquet, but it can also double as an overnight camping zone for the kids in a family tent. The fire pit can be used for roasting hot dogs for lunch or s’mores at night. Time for crafts, potting plants, and eating can happen at a picnic or dining table.

Assess what you have and consider their creative uses. Lounge chairs, sports and play equipment can be used for their original purposes, but they can also become part of an amazing obstacle course.

The wheelbarrow used for gardening and yard work can become part of a fam-

ily field day. The playset your children adore can become a breakfast spot or reading area.

Spruce up your yard. Mow the lawn and trim the bushes. Tidy overgrown areas. Add flowering plants and rearrange planters for visual appeal. Put delicate flowers in pots and out of the way of foot traffic. Now may be the time to add a picnic table, a badminton net or croquet course, planters, patio, grill, fire pit, or pergola to your backyard.

Organize for fun. Identify zones for different activities. Dining, lounging and reading may be best in shady spots.

Sports, family yard games and tossing a ball to your dog may be better on a lawn that can handle rough and tumble play.

Hammocks, lawn chairs, swings, picnic blankets and air mattresses can all provide a place for people to sit down and cool off.

Include teachings about backyard wildlife and nature. Ask kids to take an inventory of the many birds, butterflies and other wildlife they see, looking up their species and background. Put up a bird feeder or plant a butterfly garden, as well as potted flowering plants to support birds and pollinators. Add wind chimes, rain collectors, or backyard thermom-

NFL Announces Major Steps to Incentivize Teams to Hire Minorities for Top Posts

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent

National Football League teams must now interview at least two minority candidates for head coaching positions under new resolutions that the league hopes will improve diversity among its 32 teams.

In an expansion of its Rooney Rule, which had previously called on teams to interview minority candidates, the league said teams must also interview at least one minority candidate for coordinator openings and one external candidate for positions in teams’ front offices.

“While we have seen positive strides in our coaching ranks over the years aided by the Rooney Rule, we recognize, after the last two seasons, that we can and must do more,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said during a media conference call.

“The policy changes made today are bold and demonstrate the commitment of our ownership to increase diversity in leadership positions throughout the league.”

Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations and second-in-command to Goodell, said the league is now in a better position to not only hire minorities and women but to retain their services.

“What the chairman (Art Rooney II) and the commissioner did today and what the ownership voted on today has been a fight for decades to get mobility that has dis-

proportionately affected people of color,” Vincent stated.

“Just the ability to get an interview, you don’t get hired unless you have an interview. The mobility resolution today was significant and historic, because it has been a fight for decades. That’s the foundation. Frankly, we would call that the linchpin of these inequalities. With these initiatives, the enhancement of the Rooney Rule, which is a tool; it just allows us to have a broader scope of how we look at things.”

The new rules include a provision that begins in 2021, which states that teams will no longer restrict staff from interviewing with other clubs for “bona fide” coaching or front office positions. Goodell called the commitment to improving diversity throughout the league is “critical” for future success.

“While we have seen positive strides in our coaching ranks over the years aided by the Rooney Rule, we recognize, after the last two seasons, that we can and must do more,” Goodell said.

“The policy changes made today are bold and demonstrate the commitment of our ownership to increase diversity in leadership positions throughout the league.”

Clubs also will be required to “include minorities and, or, female applicants in the interview processes for senior-level front office positions such as club president and senior executives in communications, fi-

nance, human resources, legal, football operations, sales, marketing, sponsorship, information technology, and security positions,” according to the expanded rule.

Also, league officials stated that they would use an advisory panel to further strategies aimed at fostering an inclusive culture of opportunity both on and off the field.

Goodell also promised to improve the league’s pipeline for minority coaching and player personnel candidates with assistance from its Bill Walsh NFL Diversity Coaching Fellowship.

“This fight has been going on for a long time,” said Vincent, who could one day

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become the league’s first African American commissioner.

“The facts are we have a broken system, and we’re looking to implement things to change the direction in where we’re going, and it’s been south. Not a gradual south but a direct south.”

National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell delivers remarks during an event at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., launching an initiative between the Army and the NFL to work to raise awareness about traumatic brain injury. (Photo: U.S. Defense website / SSG Teddy Wade / Wikimedia Commons)

eters and wind gauges to help kids observe science in action. (Visit TurfMutt. com for a variety of backyard lesson plans that are free and STEM-aligned.)

Design new games incorporating your green space. Hold a nature scavenger hunt that’s both fun, educational and tests your family’s observational skills.

Create a “drive-thru” movie theatre by bringing laptops outside or a projector to show them on a sheet hung outside.

Build anticipation. Talk about your backyard vacation in advance with your family and review your plans. Count down the days to build excitement about spending time together in your family yard.

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of cybersecurity and data breaches are impacting multiple industries and businesses,” said Baggili. “Whether it’s bank transactions, stock trades, manufacturing data, medical records, criminal records, forensic evidence, scientific data, or retail transactions, it all needs to be secure.”

Ron Harichandran, dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering and vice provost of research, said the reputation of the university’s program in cybersecurity, data, and electrical and computer engineering ensures that the Institute will make an immediate impact.

“Launching the Connecticut Institute of Technology will unite the strengths within the Tagliatela College of Engineering and serve as a technology focal point at the university,” he said.

About the University of New Haven The University of New Haven, founded on the Yale campus in 1920, is a private, coeducational university that has been recognized by The Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report for academic excellence. Located between New York City and Boston in the shoreline city of West Haven, the university is a diverse and vibrant community of 6,800 students from across the globe.

Over the past 16 years, under the leadership of President Steven H. Kaplan, Ph.D., the university has experienced significant growth — both in enrollment and in the expansion of the university’s West Haven campus. Enrollment has increased by 60 percent to 6,800 undergraduate and graduate students.

In the last decade, the university has completed more than $300 million in major capital projects while launching 26 new academic programs. The university has also added campuses in Prato, Italy, and Orange, Connecticut.

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Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Clarifies Message to Black America

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent

Presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden clarified his message to Black America after the GOP, and others, seized on a remark he made in jest while wrapping up an interview with the famous Breakfast Club.

“I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy,” Biden stated after the comments to show host, Charlamagne Tha God, went viral.

“I shouldn’t have been so cavalier. No one should have to vote for any party based on their race, religion, and background.”

As the Breakfast Club interview wrapped and a Biden aide said he was running short on time, Charlamagne asked the former vice president to stop by the studio when Biden returns to New York.

“It’s a long way until November,” Charlamagne told Biden. “We’ve got more questions.”

Biden replied, “You’ve got more questions?” “Well, I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for Trump or me, then you ain’t black.”

Republicans seized on the remark, with some sending emails to NNPA Newswire claiming that Biden was “race-baiting.”

In response, NNPA Newswire asked members of the GOP to address what many in the African American community believe have been the raciallycharged remarks and actions of the president.

There was no response.

“The comments made at the end of the Breakfast Club interview were in jest, but let’s be clear about what the VP was saying: He was making the distinction that he would put his record with the African American community up against Trump’s any day. Period,” Biden’s senior advisor Symone D. Sanders wrote on Twitter.

“Vice President Biden spent his career fighting alongside and for the African American community. He won his party’s nomination by earning every vote and meeting people where they are, and that’s exactly what he intends to do this November,” Sanders stated.

In a “Meet the Black Press” segment of an interview on the web-based show, Make It Plain, National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, said people should react favorably to the exchange.

“Charlamagne always asks pointed questions, he takes no prisoners and he’s a great brother,” Chavis stated.

“But, the vice president is a street fighter who comes from Wilmington, Delaware. Remember, he was speaking directly to Charlamagne.”

Pressed further, Dr. Chavis noted that the issue boils down to the current administration verses a possible Biden administration.

“What Black people have to decide is not all of the prerequisite but, given what we know today, what are our aspirations? Who can best improve our quality of life? That’s the issue,” Chavis stated.

“We can’t get caught up in personality politics. I would rather have a president who speaks from the heart, from the gut, than a president who speaks from a teleprompter. I want to know what Biden is thinking about. That he’s thinking about Black, White, Latino, about the oneness of humanity.

“I would prefer to hear what he has to say, rather than to muzzle him. I tell hip-hop artists that they have freedom of expression, but they have to be responsible for what they put out. You have the freedom to say what you want, but after you say it, you have to be accountable.”

In an interview with NNPA Newswire in February, Biden said the Black vote was critical to anyone with aspirations

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of winning in November.

He then laid out his plan for Black America.

Last month, he called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to collect more data regarding how COVID-19 is affecting communities, including breaking down its impact by race.

“The data we’ve seen so far suggests that African Americans are dying from COVID-19 at a higher rate than whites.

Long-standing systemic inequalities are contributing to this disparity – including the fact that African Americans are more likely to be uninsured and to live in communities where they are exposed to high levels of air pollution,” Biden stated.

Barack Obama’s former vice president’s plan for Black America includes: Advance the economic mobility of African Americans and close the racial wealth and income gaps.

Expand access to high-quality education and tackle racial inequity in our education system.

Make far-reaching investments in ending health disparities by race.

Strengthen America’s commitment to justice.

Make the right to vote and the right to equal protection real for African Americans.

Address environmental justice.

Biden, who this month fiercely denounced the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, noted that he spearheaded the Community Oriented Policing Services program, which authorized fund-

ing both for the hiring of additional police officers and for training on how to undertake a community policing approach.

However, the program has never been funded to fulfill the original vision for community policing.

He said he would reinvigorate the COPS program with a $300 million investment.

As a condition of the grant, Biden stated that hiring police officers must mirror the racial diversity of the community they serve. Additionally, as President, Biden promises to establish a panel to scrutinize what equipment is used by law enforcement in our communities.

He said he would invest in public defenders’ offices to ensure defendants’ access to quality counsel, and create a $20 billion grant program to support criminal justice reform at the state and local level.

Biden pledged to work with Congress to reform federal sentencing and provide incentives to state and local systems to do the same.

He said he would end once and for all, the federal crack and powder cocaine disparity, decriminalize the use of cannabis and automatically expunge all prior cannabis use convictions.

The Democrat also promises to end the criminalization of poverty and cash bail, which he called the modern-day debtors’ prison.

“We need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based disparities,” Biden noted.

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Running A Business And A Household In The Age of Remote Working

by Marsha Friedman

The question of where worklife ends and homelife begins took on new meaning when COVID-19 forced people to work from home while simultaneously caring for children whose schools and daycare centers shut down.

But as people struggle to balance the two, they may find there are more similarities between work and home than they realized, says Marsha Friedman, an entrepreneur, wife, mother of four, and founder and president of News & Experts (www.newsandexperts.com), a national PR firm.

“I’ve always felt that running a business and running a household have a lot in common,” says Friedman, who is also the ForbesBooks author of Gaining the Publicity Edge: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Growing Your Brand Through National Media Coverage.

“It’s become even more apparent now that we are running our businesses from our households. In both situations you have budgeting, planning, and one-onone sessions to discuss challenges you are facing.”

Friedman says being willing to rethink roles is important for working couples raising families under the current situation where the home temporarily has become the office.

“Suddenly, you are managing both your work and your personal life in ways you did not have to before,” she says.

Friedman says one way for couples to bring better balance to their lives is to apply some workplace strategies to the home, both during this crisis, and once it’s over. She suggests:

• Consider your division of labor. At work, people are assigned specific jobs and responsibilities based on the needs of the business. The same is true in the household, Friedman says. Jobs around the house need to be delegated, just as they are in an office. Prioritize what tasks must be done, she says, and decide who

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• Be thoughtful about the way you delegate those jobs. “In business, my philosophy is matching up the interests and skills of the person to the needs of the company,” Friedman says. “You can do the same with household chores.” One spouse might enjoy cooking; the other might like shopping. Consider whether one person is better skilled at a certain task or brings more passion to it.

• Understand and appreciate each person’s role. In business, you interact with other employees and attend team meetings, which gives you insight into the scope of other people’s jobs and an appreciation for what they do. That can happen at home as well. “Even these days, in many families the spouse at work in an office doesn’t always see everything that’s involved in running a household,” Friedman says. “This stayat-home period has allowed them to see what happens at home when they are away. This can add a lot to the quality of the relationship.”

Eventually, most people will ease back into some form of their old life, where once again there’s physical separation between work and home. When that happens, don’t forfeit the progress you made improving that worklife-homelife balance, Friedman says.

“If you made this work during the pandemic,” she says, “you don’t want to lose the ground you gained in your relationship.”

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NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Housing Authority of the CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Selective Demolition, Site-work, Cast-City of Norwalk, CT HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF DANBURY New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates is requesting proposals for Management & Saturday, Planning Services in response to the Church’s Modernization Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start 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

in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, Web Site Redevelopment Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, and Rebranding.

Request for Proposal documents can be viewed and printed at www.norwalkha.org under the Business secSCOPE: Mechanical, Electrical,tion Plumbing and FireNorwalk Protection.

St. New Haven, CT RFP’s/RFQ’s.

Housing is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Housing Authority of the City of Danbury and its affiliates hereby issue this Request for This contract is subject to state set-aside and contractAdam compliance requirements.

Bovilsky, Executive Director.

RFP No. P20001

Proposal from qualified Proposers to provide Modernization Management and Planning Services and act as the agency Modernization Specialist.

Diesel Mechanic

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Sealed bids are invitedPROPOSAL by the HousingSUBMITTAL Authority of theRETURN: Town of Seymour Project documents available via ftp link below: Housing Authority of the City of Danbury, 2 Mill Ridge Rd, Danbury, CT 06811 Our team is currently looking for an experienced Diesel Mechanic to keep up our level of commitment to until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Envelope Must be Marked: RFP No. P20001 Modernization Management http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage safety and customer service. In this role, the successful candidate will perform truck repair and maintenance Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the work in accordance with factory and industry standards, run diagnostics on vehicles and work closely with Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

Fax or Email Questions & Bidsteam to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com other members to meet company goals. Responsibilities may include but not be limited to perform-

SUBMITTAL DEADLINE June 19,at2020 at 2:00pm (EST) A pre-bid conference will be held the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith

HCC encouragesing the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE Section 3and Certified Businesses minor and major repairs on&trucks trailers, conduct regular preventative maintenance on service Haynestrucks, Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, 06483 and maintain accurate records of each repair performed on perform regular diagnostic tests onCTtrucks AA/EEO EMPLOYER vehicles. Experience is a plus, but willing to train the right candidates. Apply in person or apply online at americanind.net. American Industries, Inc. is an AA/EOE.

Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

CONTACT PERSON FOR RFP DOCUMENT: Ms. Devin Marra, of Procurement,Telephone: 203-744-2500 x141 Bidding documents are Director available from the Seymour Housing Authority OfE-Mail: dmarra@hacdct.org fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

American Industries, Inc.

630 Plainfield Road, Jewett City, CT 06351

[Minority- and/or women-owned businesses are encouraged to respond]

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

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 27, 2020 - June 02, 2020 INNER-CITY NEWS July 27, 2016 - August 02, 2016

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc seeks:

DELIVERY PERSON

Construction Equipment Mechanic preferably experienced in Reclaiming and Road Milling Equipment. We offer factory training on equipment we operate. Location: Bloomfield CT We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE Contact: Tom Dunay

NOTICE

NEEDED

Phone: 243-2300 HOME INC, on behalf of860Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, Email: tom.dunay@garrityasphalt.com is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develWomen Minority Applicants are New encouraged to apply income limitations apopment & located at 108 Frank Street, Haven. Maximum rmative Action/ Opportunity Employer ply.Affi Pre-applications willEqual be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 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 Reclaiming, INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preGarrity Asphalt Inc seeks: applications must be to HOMEwith INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Reclaimer Operators andreturned Milling Operators current licensing Haven, CTbe06510. andFloor, cleanNew driving record, willing to travel throughout the North-

360 MANAGEMENT GROUP COMPANY Request for Proposals Legal Services for Nonpayment Summary Process 360 Management Group is currently seeking Proposals for legal services for nonpayment summary process. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from 360 Management’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing. cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on

Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 3:00PM.

Part Time Delivery Needed

east & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits

NOTICIA

Contact: Rick Tousignant Phone: 860- 243-2300

One/Two Day a Week,

Must Have your Own Vehicle

Email: rick.tousignant@garrityasphalt.com VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/deEqual Opportunity Employer HOME INC, en nombre la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está

If Interested call

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 Tractor Trailer Driver for Heavy & Highway Construction Equipjulio,Must 2016have hastaacuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes ment.

CDL License, clean driving record, capable of(aproximadamente 100) en las oficinas HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas operating heavydeequipment; be willing to travel throughout the por correo a petición llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse Northeast & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CTQSR 06510 .STEEL

Union Company seeks:

(203) 387-0354

Contact Dana at 860-243-2300

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

HELP WANTED:

NEW HAVEN

Large CT guardrail company looking for Laborer/Driver with valid CT CDL Class A license and able to get a medical card. Must be able to pass a drug test and physical.

Compensation based on experience. Email resume to dmastracchio@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE M-F

CORPORATION

APPLY NOW!

Elm City Communities The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven (ECC/HANH) is proposing to amend its Low-Income Public Housing Admissions and Continued Occupancy Policy (ACOP) and the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Administrative Plan (Admin Plan) pursuant to PIH Notice 2020-05, “COVID-19 Statutory and Regulatory Waivers for the Public Housing, Housing Choice Voucher, Indian Housing Block Grant and Indian Community development Block Grant programs, Suspension of Public Housing Assessment System and Section 8 Management Assessment Program”.

Copies of the amendment to the ACOP and the Administrative Plan will be made available on Tuesday, May 26, 2020 on the agency website www.elmcitycommunities.org or via Twitter, www.twitter.com/ECCommunities or via Facebook www.facebook.com/ElmCityCommunities.

You are invited to provide written comments addressed to: ECC/HANH, ACOP & Admin Plan Revisions; COVID19 Statutory Waivers, Attn: Maza Rey, 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 or via email to: mazrey@elmcitycommunities.org.

Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders A public hearing where public comments will be accepted and recorded is scheduled for Monday, June 22, 2020 at 4:00 PM, via RingCentral: https://meetings.ringcentral.

Top pay for top performers. Health Or dial: (720) 902-7700, Meeting ID: 149 418 3827. Any indiInvitationcom/j/1494183827. to Bid: Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. vidual requiring a Reasonable Accommodation to participate in the hearing may call nd 2 Notice

242-258 Fairmont Ave the Reasonable Accommodation Coordinator at (203) 498-8800, ext. 1507 or at the Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT 2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA SAYEBROOKE TDDVILLAGE Number (203) 497-8434.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 highways, near bus stop & shopping center

Old Saybrook, CT (4 Buildings, 17 Units) Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project Seeking qualified condidates to fill numerous vacancies to include,

Elm City Communities

CITY OF MILFORD

1a Autoridad de Vivienda de la Ciudad de New Haven (ECC/HANH) propone enmendar

Director of Operations Milford Landing Marina, Recreation Director, and more. For su Selective Política deDemolition, Admisión de Viviendas Públicas y Ocupación Continua (ACOP) de Bajos CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Site-work, CastCertificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates Ingresos y el Plan Administrativo (Plan de Administración) de Vales de Elección de information and detailed application instructions, visit WWW.ci.milford.ct.us in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, 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

State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management

Vivienda (HCV) de conformidad con el Aviso de PIH 2020-05, “Exenciones estatutarias

Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances,COVID-19 Residentialpara Casework, y reguladoras los programas de Vivienda Pública, Vales de Elección de Vivienda, en Bloque de Vivienda India y Desarrollo de la Comunidad en Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Subvención Fire Protection.

Suspensión del Sistema de Evaluación de Vivienda Pública y Programa de EvaluThis contract is subject to state set-asideIndia, and contract compliance requirements.

Elm City Communities

ación de la Administración de Sección 8."

Request for Proposals Bid Extended, Due Date: Augustde5,la2016 Las copias enmienda al ACOP y al Plan Administrativo estarán disponibles el lunes SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY Asset Management Consulting Services de mayo de 2020 en el sitio web de la agencia: www.elmcitycommunities.org o a Anticipated Start: 26 August 15, 2016

The State Connecticut, Office Sealed bidsofare invited by theofHousing Authority of the Town of Seymour travésvia deftp Twitter: www.twitter.com/ECCommunities o a través de Facebook: www.faceProject documents available link below: Policy and Management is recruiting for book.com/ElmCityCommunities.

The at Housing Authority the City of New Haven d/b/a Elm City Communities is until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 its office at 28 of Smith Street, a Lead Planning Analyst position. http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage currently seeking Proposals for Asset Management Consulting Services. A complete Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Further information regarding the duties, Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Uds. están invitado a proporcionar comentarios escritos por correo a: ECC/HANH, copy of the requirements may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration eligibility requirements application Smithfield Gardens and Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com ACOP y Revisiones del Plan Administrativo; COVID19 Exenciones Estatutarias, At-

Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on encourages the participation of all Veteran,ención: S/W/MBE & Section Certified Businesses Maza Rey,3 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 or via correo electrónico: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 atHCC 3:00PM Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 mazrey@elmcitycommunities.org.

A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith instructions for this position is available at: https://www.jobapscloud.com/

AA/EEO EMPLOYER CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

Centrally Located Construction Company in Connecticut has a position 200521&R2=0007AR&R3=001

available for experienced Full-Time Office assistant / Bookkeeper. Job Support A/P, The State of Connecticut is an equal A/R Payroll. QuickBooks experience required, MS Office, Internet / Emails. Salary Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority Ofopportunity/affirmative action employer depending on experience. and strongly encourages applicationsCT 06483 (203) 888-4579. fice, 28 Smith Street,theSeymour, This company is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer M/F. Females of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. and Minorities are encouraged to apply.

The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject all bids, to Pleaseany faxor resume to ATTN: Mike to 860-669-7004.

reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any informalities in the bidding, if such actions are in the best interest of the Housing Authority.

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Una audiencia pública donde los comentarios públicos serán aceptados y grabados está programada para el lunes 22 de junio de 2020 a las 4:00 PM, a través de Ring Central: https://meetings.ringcentral.com/j/1494183827. Si prefiere, llame al (720) 902-7700 con identificación de la reunión: 149 418 3827.

Si necesita una Acomodación Razonable para participar, por favor llame a La Coordinadora de Acomodaciónes Razonables para ECC/HANH al (203) 498-8800, ext. 1507 o al Número TDD (203) 497-8434.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May - 27, 2020 - June 02, 2020

VIRUS PREVENTION

AVOID

AVOID

COVER

close contact with people who are sick.

touching your eyes, nose and mouth.

your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash.

CLEAN

WASH

STAY HOME

and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces.

your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.

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when you are sick.

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