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Lena Cummings and Hill Alder Ron Hurt taking a selfie at Wednesday’s rally.

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March Presses Yale On Contract Talks

bers “enjoy unprecedented job security benefits.” She listed a number of steps Yale has taken to protect its workers during the pandemic, including not laying anyone off as a direct result of Yale’s Covid-19 response and providing premium pay to staff required to work on campus last spring. See below for Peart’s response in full.

“I Need To Keep My J-O-B”

by THOMAS BREEN New Haven I ndependent

Hundreds of Yale union members and dozens of labor-decorated cars closed off Prospect Street to issue the Ivory Tower a contract-negotiation ultimatum: Do right by your workers, or else.

That rally, march, car caravan, and protest took place Wednesday afternoon on Prospect Street between Grove and Edwards Streets.

Despite overcast skies and on and off rain, hundreds of local labor advocates and union members gathered in the shadow of Yale’s downtown campus—and atop a recently painted “Yale: Respect New Haven” street mural—to demand that the university reach fair contracts with its two UNITE HERE-affiliated unions, the blue collar Local 35 and the clerical and technical worker union Local 34.

The event, billed as “5/5@5” and organized by the unions and New Haven Rising, saw rank and file members, union leaders, and local, state, and federal elected officials turn out to put the pressure on the university as negotiations continue for the Local 34 and 35 contracts, which expire next year.

The mood at the event was festive, even joyous, buoyed by the relentlessly danceable Motown-filled soundtrack spun by DJ Tootskee.

The speeches by top union officials, by contrast, were as ominous as the grey skies overhead.

“The university, with $31 billion in the bank, feels as though they need economic relief from food service workers, from custodians, from secretaries, from cooks, from electricians,” Local 35 President Bob Proto bellowed from atop a Teamster-provided flatbed trailer that served as a stage in front of Yale’s dome-topped Schwarzman Center. “I can tell you right now, the university is going in the wrong direction as it related to negotiations.”

Proto said that the unions have settled peaceful contracts with the university since 2003 after a history of strikes.

These contracts are viewed as some of the best in the country. Now, he said, Yale wants to “roll the clock back, reset wages for lower labor grades, and gouge us as it relates to changing pensions for new hires.”

“We do stand committed to labor peace,” he continued. “We do stand committed to stay at the bargaining table. This university should not make the mistake of thinking their unions are weak because we’ve settled peaceful contracts in the past.”

While the university has a $31 billion endowment, Proto said, the local unions have a different type of power: “We have votes and we have people, and the fact is that we’re gonna use all our means to hold Yale accountable.”

THOMAS BREEN PHOTO Hundreds fill Prospect Street to support Yale’s unions.

Local 35 Prez Bob Proto: Don’t take labor peace for granted.

Lena Cummings and Hill Alder Ron Hurt taking a selfie at Wednesday’s rally.

Local 35 Chief Steward Barbara Vereen, New Haven Rising leader Scott Marks, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro.

Teamster-supplied trailer-turned-stage in front of the Schwarzman Center.

Local 35 Chief Steward and Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers framed her criticism of the university, and the potential consequences of badfaith negotiations, more bluntly.

“Either you deliver fair contracts, or we’re gonna shut this city down,” she said to cheers. “There’s nothing else to talk about.

“We was essential when you needed us.

When you needed somebody to clean, we showed up. When you needed somebody

to feed people, we showed up. When you needed somebody to keep the lights on, we showed up.”

Now, she said, Yale is repaying that hard work by its employees by threatening salary and benefit cuts in a new contract.

“You need to respect our union. You need to respect New Haven and pay your fair share. And if you don’t, this shirt I’m wearing that says, ‘Ask about labor peace,’ it’s going to be totally changed.

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do for our workers.”

“Let’s really show Yale that either they make a decision and get to the table, or they know what it is after that.”

In response to Wednesday’s union rally, university spokesperson Karen Peart told the Independent by email that Yale “remains committed to the hard work of settling fair contracts and fully intends to honor its commitment to New Haven hiring.”

She wrote that Local 34 and 35 mem-

The rank and file union members who turned out for Wednesday’s action, meanwhile, stressed the importance of job stability, sustained healthcare and retirement benefits, and increased hiring

by Yale of New Haven residents as necessary remedies to economic pain caused by the pandemic.

“We don’t want any layoffs. Enough people are hungry already. Layoffs would only add to that hurt,” said DJ Tootskee (pictured), who when not spinning records works at Yale’s “the docks” on South Frontage Road delivering packages to university labs.

“We have to protect our living,” said Aida Hernandez (pictured at right), a 32year Yale veteran who currently works as an admin assistant. She said she fears that, with so many university staff members still working remotely during the ongoing pandemic, the university may try to seize this moment to outsource work to non-union, part-time workers .

“I know the importance of supporting the union. It’s always a fight” to protect salaries and benefits gained in union contracts. Showing up to events like Wednesday’s is part of that work.

“We came to work every day, and we’re not getting good treatment from Yale,” said Fair Haven resident and Yale medical van driver Rolo Lopez, Sr. (pictured at right.) “They should have called this city ‘Yale Haven.’ They have to give to New Haven, give it to the people.”

Yale Athletics staffer Joel Furtek pointed out that the university’s endowment and its operating surplus have only grown and grown during the pandemic, even as many of the residents it shares a city with have suffered.

“Yale is doing very well. And it’s an incredibly wealthy institution.” It’s only fair for the university to commit to maintaining jobs, pay, and benefits for its workers.

Annex resident and Yale histology tech Garnett Alexis agreed.

“People are losing their jobs everywhere” during this pandemic, he said.

When asked for what message he’d like to send to Yale by showing up to Wednesday’s rally with his daughter Cayla, he said, “Hire from the community and pay your fair share in taxes.”

And when asked why she showed up on Wednesday, Yale account assistant Tonya Ricks replied, “I need to keep my j-o-b.”

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Cop Probed On Immigrant Harassment

by PAUL BASS

New Haven I ndependent

The police have launched an internal investigation into another complaint involving a cop who had sex with a woman in Fair Haven whom he met on the job.

The officer has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

The investigation involves potential violations of department policy as well as potential criminal violations.

This case is not believed to have any connection to a separate recent case involving former Officer Gary Gamarra,.

Gamarra resigned after admitting having sex with Fair Haven prostitutes, who said he raped them and threatened them with arrest.

The new case stems from a complaint several weeks ago by a 19-year-old woman who came to Fair Haven from Latin America as an undocumented immigrant.

The case began when the woman phoned the police seeking help.

The patrol officer in question was called in to translate from Spanish into English when the woman made the complaint, according to three people in law enforcement who are familiar with the allegations.

At a later date, the woman called the police to make a new complaint, according

to people familiar with the allegations: She said the officer had subsequently contacted her, and they began an allegedly consensual relationship. Then, she said, she tried to break it off. The officer allegedly kept contacting her, and she was seeking to have that stop.

Reached by the Independent, the officer, graduated from the police academy in 2019, declined comment. (The Independent has a policy of not naming people accused of potential criminal misconduct unless there is a pressing immediate threat to public safety; we have their side of the story; we have corroborating evidence of the allegation; or the allegation has been adjudicated in court or been the subject of a completed internal investigation.)

As usual with pending investigations, law enforcement officials are hesitant to divulge many details of the allegations.

Acting Chief Renee Dominguez told the Independent Wednesday she has no comment “as it is an open investigation.”

Patrol Commander Lt. Mark O’Neil wrote a memo to 38 members of the department informing them that the officer had been placed on paid administrative leave and “is not allowed in the building unless he is here to speak to Union representation or conduct business at the Credit Union. Either of these cases [he] will be escorted while inside the building. At no

cern that it could damage public safety by harming immigrants’ trust in law enforcement.

“This is a man who is supposed to serve and protect this community. The added vulnerability of an undocumented woman is even more appalling,” said Matos, who lives in Fair Haven.

THOMAS BREEN PHOTO Organizer Kica Matos: “Appalling” case threatens immigrant community’s trust in police.

time should he be allowed unescorted in the building.”

Immigrant-rights advocate Kica Matos — who as an organizer and then a city

official oversaw the crafting of policies aimed at building immigrants’ trust in cops and government in general — called the case “appalling.” She expressed con-

Officer Gary Gamarra.

“This is very typical of a type of abuse that undocumented women face all the time. This is an example of why immigrant communities and communities of color are wary of police,” she added.

“In immigrant communities, so much is communicated through word of mouth.

The end result is the undocumented community in New Haven will not trust local police. I wonder how many immigrant women will not call police because of this, because they’re afraid. Who’s going to be left to protect undocumented women?”

Meanwhile, the Gary Gamarra sex worker-rape case remains in the news.

As the Independent reported in January, Gamarra is seeking to win his job back; the police union supports him. Acting Police Chief Renee Dominguez is seeking to have Gamarra decertified as a police officer so he can’t get a job with any force in the state.

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Crisis Team, Recovery Act Decisions Eyed

by PAUL BASS

New Haven I ndependent

New Haven has a chance to seize the post-pandemic, social-justice moment — and it needs to hear from everybody about the best way to do it.

Two mayoral candidates held separate press conferences with that message, and disagreed about who can deliver.

Incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker and Democratic primary challenger Karen DuBois-Walton held those campaignseason events at City Hall Monday.

Pandemic Recovery Bucks Holding her event outdoors in front of the Amistad/Singbe Pieh statue, DuBoisWalton noted that the city is receiving its first batch of federal aid under the pandemic-relief American Recovery Act. New Haven government expects to receive around $94 million in direct aid under the act, the Board of Education another $94 million, with another $25 million or so estimated to come to the city through a regional county process.

At the press conference, DuBois-Walton criticized Elicker’s administration for not having more of a plan in place for getting the money quickly to people who need it — and for not having consulted with enough people in New Haven on how to spend it.

“Change cannot come from the top down,” she said. “We cannot have another secret Yale negotiation.”

She repeated a call for immediately spending $10 million of the federal money on gun violence prevention and police accountability initiatives. For the rest, she called for a “comprehensive” community conversation extending beyond Board of Alders hearings. Specifically she called for several in-person and Zoom meetings backed by an option for people to contribute ideas via telephone or online; meetings with community management teams and service providers; publicly stated goals with metrics for gauging success; and regular public updates.

In addition, DuBois-Walton announced that her campaign will host a “virtual town hall” on this subject this Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. She promised “the campaign will not consider any individual or organization’s participation in the town hall as any kind of endorsement, and no registrations from the town hall will be linked to any campaign databases.” Find more details about the event here and here.

In response, Elicker said his team has sought public input on how to spend most of the federal cash infusion and is planning a host of community meetings along the lines that DuBois-Walton proposed.

“She’s welcome to participate,” Elicker said.

In April he laid out some initial plans for a $6.3 million “summer reset” supporting a citywide youth ambassador program, fixed-up city playgrounds, homeless drop-in centers, and street outreach workers focused on preventing violence. He

PAUL BASS PHOTOS City social-services chief Mehul Dalal with Mayor Justin Elicker at announcement of second sixmonth planning phase for crisis team.

Mayoral challenger Karen DuBois-Walton calling for swifter, more inclusive action on recovery aid.

has submitted for alder review of a separate plan to spend $20 million of the infusion on “cost recovery” related to covering pandemic-related increased costs and lower revenues on parking meters, building permits, and police and fire overtime.

“Redefining” Public Safety Elicker made the comment after his own press event held at 1 p.m. inside City Hall in the first-floor lobby. He assembled city officials and service providers involved in helping to create a Community Crisis Re-

sponse Team to send social workers and mental health workers instead of cops to some emergency calls for help.

The announcement: The Elicker administration is embarking on a second six-month planning phase to create such a team. It is partnering with Community Mental Health Center (CMHC), which already does emergency crisis response, to oversee this planning phase and figure out whom to send on which 911 calls.

Elicker announced this plan last August;

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the Board of Alders authorized spending $100,000 on a first phase of planning.

To quarterback the project, Elicker tapped Community Services Administrator Mehul Dalal, who in turn tapped city Special Projects Director Carlos SosaLombardo to craft initial plans and bring them to community management team meetings.

Dalal noted that requests for such nonpolice intervention grew nationwide out of social-justice demonstrations last summer following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

“We heard you,” Dalal said at Monday’s event. “We’re listening.”

Since then, the city has drawn an initial estimate that a crisis management team could divert up to 11,000 out of over 100,000 annual 911 calls from the police, Elicker said. That would enable police to focus on other priorities while de-escalating and bringing more effective responses to calls involving people struggling with mental illness, addiction or homelessness.

Elicker said he expects the city to be ready to roll out a pilot of the crisis team in the fall. U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro is seeking federal dollars to support the effort; the city is in talks with the state for support as well.

“We are redefining what it means to keep people safe,” Elicker declared.

DuBois-Walton said she supports policing alternatives like the crisis team. She argued that Elicker should have had it up and running much sooner rather than take a year planning it.

“To say you want community involvement does mean you have to go at a glacial pace,” she argued. “Folks who have worked in government, in public systems before, have a real advantage in knowing how to move things more quickly. This has taken far too long …

“What’s missing for me is the sense of urgency and the ability to execute things that meet the urgency of the matter of the community.”

Asked about the length of planning time, Elicker stressed the need to do it right.

“We need to be deliberate and thoughtful about this,” he said.

The first phase included a request for proposals process, which led to bringing in CMHC as a lead partner. Dalal spoke of the need to walk through all the scenarios first responders will face to come up with a detailed standard operating procedure.

Officials promised an extensive public input process.

The team would be the first city-run one in the state. Officials have looked at Eugene, Oregon’s 31-year-old version of a crisis management team (called CAHOOTS) as one model. New Haven’s will probably be a little different, according to Sosa-Lombardo: New Haven might send peer support specialists rather than EMTs and paramedics to accompany social workers on some calls, for instance.

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Builder Unveils “Winchester Center” Plans

by THOMAS BREEN New Haven I ndependent

Hundreds of new apartments. Tens of thousands of square feet of office and lab space. Ground-floor retail up and down Winchester Avenue.

Science Park’s redevelopers unveiled those plans to Dixwell and Newhallville neighbors as they prepare to embark on the next stage of turning the former Winchester Arms factory complex into a research, residential, and shopping hub.

Science Park Development Corporation President David Silverstone and Twining Properties CEO Alex Twining made that pitch Wednesday night during a community meeting held outdoors in the Winchester Works Courtyard at 115 Munson St. Roughly 50 people turned out to learn about the next chapter in the ongoing overhaul of the factory complex that for much of the last century served as the sprawling industrial and economic anchor of the Newhallville and Dixwell neighborhoods.

Surrounded by the upscale Winchester Lofts apartments on one side and the Winchester Works research and office complex on the other, Silverstone and Twining said that, starting in early 2022, their companies — along with the Larchmont, N.Y.-based L&M Development Partners — will start building on remaining developable land in Science Park.

Twining said the first development will bring roughly 300 new apartments and ground-floor retail space to the surface parking lot at 315 Winchester Ave., between the Winchester Lofts and 5 Science Park. That proposed development should be compliant with existing zoning laws, he said, and likely won’t require any zoning relief.

The second development will see another roughly 250 apartments and more groundfloor retail built on a surface lot at the corner of Division Street and Winchester Avenue.

The third development will see up to 400 new apartments built at the corner of Munson Street and Mansfield Street, at the site of a soon-to-be-demolished section of the former Winchester Arms factory building. He said that development will require an update to an underlying Planned Development District (PDD) set of zoning regulations.

And the fourth development will see tens of thousands of square feet of new office and lab space built atop a surface parking lot on Munson Street between Winchester Avenue and Mansfield Street, just across the street from Winchester Lofts and Winchester Works.

Along with the construction of those new buildings, Silverstone and Twining said, this redevelopment project will see the reopening of a long-closed section of Sheffield Avenue that will run from Newhallville into Science Park, as well as the reopening of a street called Mason Place.

New York builder Alex Twining Wednesday with Newhallville’s Addie Kimbrough.

Depending on available financing, they said, the various redevelopment projects—collectively known as “Winchester Center”—could take between five and 10 years to complete.

It should result in the creation of roughly 2,000 temporary construction jobs and $490 million in construction-related economic output, the two redevelopers said. It should also add another 1,900 permanent jobs on top of the 1,600 that exist in Science Park today, let alone adding hundreds of more places for future residents to live.

The plan is to “take all of these parking lots and put buildings on them like there used to be,” Twining said. But instead of having industrial factory buildings lining Winchester Avenue, he said, this redevelopment project will bring offices and apartments and shops and lab space.

“Our hope is to bring back what this place was,” which was one teeming with people and economic activity, Twining said. “The opportunity is sitting there. We just have to exploit it.”

While the initial stages of the redevelopment of Science Park focused on attracting employers to new office space and residents to the roughly 160 apartments at Winchester Lofts, Silverstone said, this next stage of construction seeks to build out the former factory area into a “techresidential-community center.”

20% Affordable Twining and L+M Development Partners Senior Director Sam Chapin said that 20 percent of the new apartments built out as part of this redevelopment project will be set aside at affordable rates, with the rest rented out at market rates.

Chapin said that “affordable” in this

Graffiti on the side of the Mansfield-Munson former factory building.

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context means that these apartments will be open to residents earning an average of 60 percent of the area median income (AMI)—which, in the federally-defined regional area that includes New Haven, means families making $55,800 per year.

Chapin said that the affordable set-aside in each of these residential projects—including in the first 300-unit development, to be built at 315 Winchester Ave.—will be funded with federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC).

The federal government now allows builders using LIHTC funding to do “income averaging,” Chapin said. That means that the redevelopers will be able to use those tax credits to subsidize apartments for renters making between 30 percent and 80 percent AMI, so long as the total affordable subsidy averages out to 60 percent AMI across the entire project.

“Private financing can only cover so much,” Chapin said when asked if the development team would be open to increasing the affordable apartment set-aside to 25 percent of the entire project. If the redevelopers bump up that set-aside from the current planned amount of 20 percent, then they’d have to find more public subsidies to make that happen.

Connecticut’s population grew by only 1 percent over the past decade according to preliminary new census numbers, one attendee said. Where do the redevelopers expect people will come from to live in all of these planned new apartments?

“We want to make these apartments to be a wide range of apartment types and rental rates,” Twining said. Ideally some current residents from the Newhallville and Dixwell neighborhoods will be able to live in these units, he said, along with some of the thousands of new people ideally who will be working at the new jobs created in Science Park thanks to the coming office, research, and retail space.

What about all the ground-floor retail being built? asked another attendee. Given all of the difficulties brick-and-mortar retailers have had staying in business thanks to online shopping and the pandemic, who is going to fill all of these storefronts?

“We’re going to have to charge very low rents,” Twining said. “And it’s likely going to take quite a while” to fill these shopping spaces.

“But if we subsidize the risk, that will help them out.”

Silverstone added that the Science Park redevelopers hope to bring in locally owned retail outlets to operate these new spaces planned for Winchester Avenue.

“The emphasis is going to be on locally owned retail,” he said. “I don’t think you’re going to have a Macy’s” on this block, he said. “We’re not going to have a Lulu Lemon. We’re gonna have local.”

“I see this project as a huge opportunity for mentorship,” said Newhallville Community Management Team Chair Kim Harris.

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the neighborhood a desirable, engaged, and community-oriented place to live.

Armstrong, who grew up on Newhall Street, praised Newhallville as a “familyoriented” part of town. She said she’s most eager to start growing fresh vegetables in a garden she plans to build in the backyard of their new house.

And Pittman Jr. and Lucky also praised the government-subsidized below-market price for this house—which Pittman Jr. will be buying from the city for $215,000—as a key enticement for a firsttime homebuyer like himself.

“This same property would sell for $350,000” on the open market, Lucky said. Thanks to the Winchester-Thompson project pricing, Pittman Jr. is able to buy it at a fraction of that price.

Pittman Jr. said he, Armstrong, and their son plan on living on the second floor of the house, while his sister—who works as a city firefighter—will rent the ground floor apartment.

“I’m going to be here for a long time,” Pittman Jr. predicted. Buying this new home, he said, is just the start of what he hopes to be another generation’s worth of community involvement.

by THOMAS BREEN New Haven I ndependent

Sixty years after his grandfather moved from North Carolina to Newhallville for a job at Winchester Arms, second-generation restauranteur Miguel Pittman Jr. is putting down roots in the neighborhood once again — this time with the help of a city-built affordable home.

Pittman Jr., 27, is under contract to purchase a new two-family house at 539 Winchester Ave. That’s one of nine new-construction residences built atop formerly vacant lots by the city’s Livable City Initiative (LCI) and local developer Concrete Creations LLC as part of the Winchester-Thompson project. The largely state-funded effort to build intergenerational wealth in the historically working-class Black neighborhood is selling new homes at below-market prices to low-to-moderate-income, owner-occupants.

With a trucker and a carpenter slated to be two of his new neighbors on the block, Pittman — a manager at his parents’ popular Hill soul food restaurant Sandra’s Next Generation — visited 539 Winchester Ave. on Monday to take an up-close look at the house his young family will soon call home.

“I’m really excited. I feel good here,” he said from the backyard under an overcast sky while standing alongside his father Miguel Pittman Sr., his son Miguel Pittman III, his girlfriend Tahirah Armstrong, and his loan officer Jeannette Lucky. “I love this community. This is my home.”

Pittman does not live at 539 Winchester Ave. quite yet; he and Lucky said he has a loan lined up from Bank of America, and hopes to close on purchasing the property from the city later this month. He said his sense of belonging in Newhallville stretches two generations back.

His grandfather, James Moore, moved from North Carolina to Newhallville in 1962 for a factory job at the nowshuttered Winchester Repeating Arms complex. Moore worked in the factory’s wood department from 1962 to 1976 making handles and custom-made pieces for customers, Pittman Jr. said. “He made custom pieces for famous cowboys like Roy Rodgers and Gene Autry.”

Pittman Sr. said his Southern-transplant family lived on Winchester Avenue just a block north of where his son will soon live. They were one of many North Carolina families to move north to New Haven in the mid-20th century for reliable, industrial employment — helping turn the Dixwell and Newhallville neighborhoods into anchors of the Black, working and middle class.

Pittman Sr. recalled growing up in a civically and politically engaged neighborhood in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

“It was as high as 93 percent of residents would vote,” he said. “People were very much involved in this community.”

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THOMAS BREEN PHOTO Miguel Pittman Jr. (center) with dad Miguel Sr., son Miguel III, and girlfriend Tahirah Armstrong.

In the 1970s, he said, the neighborhood started changing. Veterans returning from the Vietnam War came home with PTSD and, sometimes, heroin addictions they’d developed overseas. Pittman Sr. said Newhallville struggled with crime, drug dealing, and blight in the subsequent decades, as well as from neglect from City Hall.

“It didn’t have the resources to lift it up,” he said. “I feel like the city turned a blind eye.”

From his vantage point living and working in the Hill, Pittman Sr. said, Newhallville is changing dramatically yet again.

While the factory jobs are long gone, “now we’re talking about biotech” at Science Park. “A new type of generation is coming in,” he said. That includes his son and his young family.

Pittman Jr. grew up on Orchard Street in the Hill, where he still lives with his family. He said he found out about the new city-built home on Winchester Avenue from his realtor, Herb Jackson.

He applied to the city to purchase the deed-restricted 539 Winchester Ave. home—which is limited to families making no more than 80 percent of the area median income (AMI), as are all of the other WInchester-Thompson houses. He

New city-built houses line the Winchester Ave.-Thompson St. block.

said he was the only eligible applicant who applied for that particular house, and was subsequently picked by the city to be able to buy it.

Pittman Jr. said he welcomes the new planned “Winchester Center” redevelopment project, which aims to bring hundreds of new, mostly market-rate apartments to current surface parking lots and dilapidated buildings near the old factory complex.

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“I believe it’s good for New Haven. It brings all kinds of different people to the neighborhood.”

Pointing south towards Division Street, which marks the boundary between Science Park and Newhallville, he said, “I don’t want Division Street to actually divide us.”

Pittman Jr. also praised current Newhallville community activists, like management team Chair Kim Harris, for making

As Pittman prepares to purchase and move into 539 Winchester, he and his family have also been pushing the city to resolve what they see as a potential pitfall of the newly built-up property.

That is: water leaking down the hill behind their house, into their backyard, and potentially up to their home itself.

On Monday afternoon, a construction crew from Concrete Creations worked on building up a berm just north of the home’s backyard to try to divert and water that might spill towards the soon-to-be Pittman residence.

Pittman Jr. sent along a number of emails he, his loan officer, and an engineer consultant have sent to the city about this very concern.

“The grading of the rear yard to the east and northeast of the house has resulted in significant erosion and scouring of the area,” Guilford-based engineer Robert Sonnichsen wrote in a March 21 letter to Pittman Jr. after evaluating the backyard.

“Stormwater runoff flows toward the back of the house and there is evidence of significant ponding for extended periods of time in the vicinity of the cellar bulkhead door.

“Observation of the conditions that exist in the area immediately east of the house indicated that little vegetation is present in the area. In our opinion, installation of sedimentation control in the area upgradient of the house would have limited the scour of the slope up gradient of the house and the ponding of water along the back of the house. ... In my professional opinCon’t on page 11

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Red Light Flashes On Builder Walking Tour

by THOMAS BREEN New Haven I ndependent

One hundred twenty-nine apartments are coming. Will the neighborhood be safe from all the extra traffic coming along with them?

That question hung over an hour-long outdoor community meeting Thursday in the future shadow of the mixed-use development that Ocean Management is building at the site of the former 500 Blake Street Cafe.

The meeting included a walking tour of streets surrounding Ocean’s planned new 129-unit apartment complex on Blake Street. It revealed a classic conundrum faced by a city mid-building boom: How to add density while still keeping current neighbors, new residents, and all other users of the road safe from increased traffic.

Roughly 25 Westville neighbors, alders, and city economic development and transportation officials joined Saint Project Management’s Melissa Saint, Axela Construction project manager Joe Hemingway, and engineer David Sacco for the walk around Tour Avenue, Valley Street Extension, West Rock Avenue, and Blake Street.

They visited sites where the developer plans to install various traffic safety improvements—including three new speed humps along Tour, Valley St. Ext., and West Rock, and an upgraded, signalized four-way intersection at Blake and Valley—that are designed to keep pedestrians and cyclists safe after an influx of new residents and their cars.

The development is being built on at the site of the demolished former Westville restaurant and atop an expanse of vacant parking lots bounded by Tour Avenue, Whalley Avenue, Blake Street, and the West River. It will include 129 new apartments, 99 on-site parking spaces, 50 indoor bicycle spaces, and 7,300 square feet of new ground-floor commercial spaces.

As part of the City Plan Commission’s site plan approval for the project last May, the local land use board required the developer to consult with local residents on traffic and pedestrian safety improvements.

Thus Thursday’s walking tour.

“All of the neighbors support development and increased density,” said neighbor Thea Buxbaum said at the start of the tour.

Holding a double-sided, 17-point list of recommendations for the developer, Buxbaum said that she and fellow Westville residents just want to make sure that what ultimately gets built is safe and an amenity for those who already live in the neighborhood.

Westville Alders Richard Furlow (pictured at right) and Adam Marchand agreed. The purpose of requiring this neighborhood consultation was to “make sure that the people using this street can

THOMAS BREEN PHOTO Joe Hemingway, Melissa Saint, Adam LoPiano on walking tour.

THOMAS BREEN PHOTO Thursday’s 500 Blake traffic safety walking tour hits Tour Avenue.

be as safe as possible,” said Marchand, who also sits on the City Plan Commission.

“We’re hoping for a very good project here that can be amicable for everyone,” added Furlow, who represents the ward that includes the 500 Blake St. development. And, he added with a smile while leaning towards Saint, he’s confident that the developer will happily agree to every traffic safety suggestion put forth by the community.

“We do understand that you live here,” replied Saint. “That this is your street and your neighborhood. We do listen, and we do care” about the safety of the area.

“We’re going to do the best we can. Our goal here in Westville is to build a project that is open to the community. ... And we’re very open to hearing any other suggestions.”

The walking tour began on Tour Avenue—a one-block, one-way road that abuts where the back side of future Blake Street development.

Saint said that, after taking into consideration a variety of potential traffic safety upgrades, the developer decided on installing three speed humps as the most “unobtrusive” way to slow down traffic behind the development.

While the complex’s primary entrance

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and exit will be at Blake Street and Valley Street, she said, a back entrance and exit will be located at Tour and Valley St. Extension. Thus the planned construction of three new speed humps to slow down traffic behind the development.

Sacco led the group halfway down Tour Avenue towards Whalley to the site of the first future traffic hump.

Per city standards and specifications, he said, this hump will stretch 12 feet across the center of the roadway, leaving free a few feet on either side to allow for drainage near the curbs.

“As long as we can park on it, this is totally fine,” Tour Avenue resident Adam LoPiano said. He said that his house does not have a parking lot, so residents park on the street. Sacco, Saint, and city traffic engineer Bruce Fisher assured LoPiano that, indeed, cars can park on a speed hump.

The group had to pause and jump up on the sidewalks to avoid a large truck pulling onto Tour Avenue to circle back over to Whalley.

“The temporary opening here has become very dangerous,” cautioned neighbor Muffy Pendergast. Saint promised to get a one-way sign installed at that temporary curb cut during construction to make it clear which direction cars can come from and go to.

Back at the corner of Tour and Valley St. Extension, Saint and Sacco pointed out where the back entrance and exit to the complex will be.

“This is a two-way, in and out,” Saint said. “It’s a second entrance that will go underneath the parking.”

“This is going to be a driveway cut,” Sacco said. The sidewalk will come down Tour and connect over to the elevated riv-

erwalk along the West River. “It will not be this kind of at-grade roadway” after construction is complete.

Saint added that the area by the riverwalk near Tour and Valley St. Etension will have trees and benches alongside an access point to the elevated walkway and a planned new bike lane.

“We’re not trying to bastardize the corner,” she said. “We’re trying to beautify it.”

And while the developer did broach the idea of installing a raised table where Tour and Valley St. Extension meet, Sacco said, the city ultimately advised the developer not to, as a corner is already a traffic calming measure in of itself.

The more effective approach, he said, is the one the developer is pursuing: installing speed humps mid-block on the back side of the development to slow down cars as they approach the Tour-Valley Extension corner and the Valley ExtensionWest Rock corner.

The next stop—and the site of the second planned speed hump—was half-way down Valley Street Extension between Tour and West Rock.

“This will be here to make things slow and steady,” Saint said.

And the third and final speed hump is planned for half-way down West Rock between Valley St. Extension and Whalley.

City Engineer Giovanni Zinn explained that each speed hump will be roughly 3.5 inches tall at the midpoint.

“They’re very effective” at slowing down traffic, he said. And they’re the number one request his department receives from residents citywide who want to slow down cars on their blocks.

Intersection Upgrades The group ended the tour by walking across the construction site itself, parallel to the West River riverwalk and over to the Blake Street side of the project.

Sacco said that the development will include outdoor seating and a patio area in between the end of the building and the elevated riverwalk.

The existing chainlink fence will be replaced with a picket fence.

And, by the primary entrance and exit to the complex at Blake Street and Valley Street, Sacco said, the developer will be funding a host of improvements to an intersection that residents have long criticized as one of the more dangerous in the area.

He said the intersection will be a “full, four-way light,” which will include new button-activated, signalized crosswalks across Blake Street and across Valley Street.

What about a new crosswalk across Blake Street by the riverwalk? asked Pendergast. Won’t that be an important area to slow down traffic, particularly considCon’t on page 11

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One challenge back then remains today: How does government make truly democratic decisions? Logue and Lee believed in “pluralistic democracy”: consulting with leaders of established interest groups, from the NAACP to the Chamber of Commerce. The collapse of urban renewal in the 1960s and early 1970s led to critiques about the limits of that approach, the wisdom lost when more parts of a community don’t get heard. But the subsequent emphasis on “participatory democracy” has produced its own limits, in which certain voices of people who, say, show up at public meetings drown out what might in fact be more representative views. One result, Cohen said, is NIMBYism.

“Whoever shows up at a public meeting — is that the voices we should listen to?

If a group is neighborhood-based, how can they take the full city into account?

And the needs of the city as a whole?” she asked.

“I think the only solution is there need to be many people at the table,” and private developers shouldn’t be able to dictate high-impact public decisions in return for concessions like a set-aside of affordable housing or local hiring.

To hear Cohen’s full case, tune in Wednesday, May 12, at 6 p.m. when she speaks at an online event hosted by the New Haven Museum. For a preview, you can hear the WNHH interview in the above video.

by PAUL BASS

New Haven I ndependent

Lizabeth Cohen spent years studying New Haven’s fraught experiment in trying to wipe out poverty — and emerged with a lesson.

The lesson: What happened was more complicated than people believe. And as cities try again to tackle their challenges, government is part of the solution, not the problem.

Cohen, an American Studies professor at Harvard, arrived at those conclusions while researching and writing Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019).

She spent countless hours poring through Logue’s voluminous papers at Yale, detailing how he oversaw New Haven’s first wave of mid-20th century urban renewal as then-Mayor Dick Lee’s deputy.

Logue largely messed up in New Haven, thanks in part to then-reigning notions about architecture, urban design, demolition vs. historic preservation, and democratic decision-making, Cohen concludes.

But the experiment was more idealistic than is understood, and not all of it failed.

Logue went on to apply those lessons in overseeing the development of the “new” Boston in the 1960s and then the rebuilding of the South Bronx in New York.

People have used the experience of cities like New Haven, which grew poorer after spending record amounts of federal gov-

Lizabeth Cohen

ernment and private foundation dollars, to justify allowing private developers to call the shots in public policymaking, Cohen said Monday in an interview about her book on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven” program. That was the wrong conclusion to draw, she said.

“You can’t trust private interests to protect the public good,” Cohen argued, quoting Logue. “Cities have been beholden to what developers want to do for too long. We have to get people to have confidence again in government.”

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So Long, Tennis. Welcome Back, Concerts!

by PAUL BASS

New Haven I ndependent

The center-court net was gone. Along with the court. Monster amps rose from a new concert stage.

And a new era officially began for the Connecticut Tennis Center — as an outdoor concert venue called Westville Music Bowl.

Workers put finishing touches on the reborn, resuscitated stadium Thursday as officials cut the rechristening ribbon.

They cut it in time for Friday’s opening night of a spring and summer full of “under the stars” outdoor concerts, beginning with sold-out shows by the jam band Government Mule. Optimism coursed through the air like a major-key guitar riff, as a new era dawned not just for a city beginning to reemerge from the Covid-19 lockdown but for a venue that is finally playing the role that it should have all along.

The tennis stadium was built three decades ago along Yale Avenue by wetlands and the West River with $21 million in state money. It represented the last of a generation of failed government attempts to boost the economy by luring suburbanites to town with sports events (baseball, hockey, tennis).

Some outdoor concerts were thrown in during the early days, shows fondly remembered by those lucky enough to attend. The acoustics worked. The seating felt intimate. (Bonnie Raitt and Marc Cohn were pitch perfect for the mellow

PAUL BASS PHOTOS Keith Mahler at the entrance to his latest live-music venue.

evening setting, for example.) But concerts weren’t a part of the plan, and they were discontinued. Unlike today, Westville neighbors back then were more opposed to fun happening near their homes.

They even stopped Paul McCartney from crooning at the Yale Bowl.

Meanwhile, tennis never drew the prom-

ised hordes who were supposedly going to plunk Gold Coast cash into the New Haven economy. A succession of tournament iterations burned through government subsidies while bringing a trickle of humans to the concrete colossus for only a week or two a year. Otherwise it sat silent 50-51 weeks a year, gradually deteriorat-

ing.

Now, just like Downtown, it is being revived with what works in New Haven: arts and entertainment.

Keith Mahler, whose Premier Concerts outfit revived the College Street Music Hall into a regional hit five years ago, oversaw the physical rescue of the crum-

bling former tennis stadium. The work included a complete recaulking and electrical overhaul. Cracks in the concrete court were filled in, then grass put in above it for seating near the new stage. Crews “surgically” removed concrete to open up the east side for loading equipment to the stage.

Now the space is ready for a steady stream of concerts May through September. As the state emerges from pandemic restrictions, this summer’s shows will be limited to crowds of 2,000, socially distanced in pods of two or four attendees.

The shows are also limited by which groups are resuming tours (a disproportionate number of which seem to be of the Phish jam-band variety).

By next year the venue will host a wider range of shows with capacity crowds of between 3,000 and 5,000.

Speaking at a press conference preceding the ribbon-cutting, Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen called the concert revival of the stadium a “dream come true.” “This is neighborhood-approved,” he added.

Westville Village Renaissance Alliance’s Lizzy Donius was pumped about the first word in new venue’s title: “This puts the neighborhood on the map statewide and regionally.”

“There are three universal languages: Love, math, and music,” reflected Fire Chief John Alston Jr. “May they all increase.”

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Red Light Flashes

ering all of the people who will be walking and biking along the improved and more accessible riverwalk?

Saint said the developer considered adding a crosswalk there. But, with the new four-way light at Valley and Blake nearby, “it was going to block up traffic.”

Isn’t that exactly what the developer and the city should be striving for? Pendergast asked. Slower traffic to protect pedestrians, cyclists, and other users of the road?

While Thursday’s walking tour was focused on the developer’s existing traffic safety plans for the site, said city transit chief Doug Hausladen, the city is open to taking in more suggestions from neighbors as to what further upgrades can be made to make the site safer.

He said he made a note to himself even before Pendergast spoke up about considering with city staff the prospect of putting in a new crossing of Blake Street by the riverwalk.

“It’s good to be having these conversations in real time” he said. “What we’re hearing is that the community wants to take its commitment” to traffic calming in the area “to the next step up.”

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Next Generation Returns ion this condition should be mitigated by the City of New Haven by redirecting the water that flows onto 539 Winchester Ave. from adjacent city property away from the back of the house.”

In an April 20 email response passed along to the Independent by Pittman Jr., LCI Deputy Director Cathy Schroeter thanked him for passing along the engineer’s letter and concerns about puddling in the yard of 539 Winchester Ave. She wrote that the city has installed swales as part of construction to redirect water away from the structure. It’s also installed subsurface rear drainage that goes 20 feet deep. And, in response to Pittman Jr.‘s concerns and Sonnichsen’s letter in particular, the city is building our a bern four feet wide and 1.5 feet high and sodding that berm to further re-direct water that would otherwise puddle in the yard.

“The City of New Haven has provided all the recommended options as advised by your Engineer,” Schroeter wrote. “Not just one or the other. All of them.

“Also, the Home Inspection Report as provided by your realtor did not show any issues in or around the property with water penetrating the property now or prior to the inspection.

“The City of New Haven as the seller has provided a corrective action that will address your concern with the puddling in your yard. However, If the corrective action for the replanting of vegetation via a berm and sod does not meet with your satisfaction, then as a Purchaser you have the right to terminate the contract with the City of New Haven.”

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“Winchester

Center” Plans

“In our neighborhood, there are a lot of young people who want to be where you are in 30, 40 years,” she continued. “Can you imagine taking a 16 year old and mentoring them for a decade? ... That would give some hope, some accountability, and some sustainability to this project.”

Silverstone praised Harris’s comment as offering a “creative approach” to including the surrounding community in the coming large-scale redevelopment. “Let’s talk about it,” he said.

What About Gentrification?

Bassett Street resident and Newhallville Community Management Team Treasurer Carlota Clark praised the redevelopment project as breathing new life into currently empty parking lots and a dilapidated former factory building in the neighborhood.

Besides all of the apartments and offices and ground-floor shops planned for this project, Clark said, what she would most like to see included in this redevelopment is a new grocery store.

“It would be nice to have a supermarket,” she said. Right now, Newhallville residents have to cross the town line into Hamden to pick up groceries.

When asked if she’s concerned that the flood of new market-rate apartments to the area will drive up rental prices overall and result in gentrification, she said, “Truth be told, the neighborhood is going to be gentrified anyway. There’s not too much we can do about that.”

She said apartment rates in New Haven are still significantly less than what she was paying a few years ago in New York City. She said she herself got priced out of her former neighborhood of BedfordStuyvesant in Brooklyn, which ultimately led her to move to New Haven in the first place.

Fellow Newhallville resident Nina Fawcett offered a similarly fatalistic take on Winchester Center’s likely impact on rising rents in the neighborhood.

“This looks like it’s going to be a ‘stay and play’” site that “I’m thinking is going to exclude Newhallville,” she said.

“Gentrification is going to keep going up the street.”

“I’m all for making things nice and having livable space,” she continued. “But is this livable for the community? Or are they making it ‘Rich People Park’?”

Local contractor Charles Hewitt and New Haven Regional Contractors’ Alliance Managing Director Walter Esdaile, meanwhile, were more hopeful on the potential impact of the neighborhood-wide redevelopment project.

These projects are huge job opportunities for Newhallville and Dixwell residents who work in the construction trades, Esdaile said.

“And if you develop,” added Hewitt, “that helps, because people want places to live.”

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African Americans Share Experiences with COVID-19 Vaccine

By Justice Page, Data News Weekly Contributor

The COVID-19 vaccine will become more readily available for more eligible groups beginning in late March as vaccine manufacturers reached a major milestone on March 19th to produce enough vaccines to be distributed across the country.

Some 7 million Louisiana residents have been vaccinated since December 2020.

And as many residents have completed both doses of the approved vaccines, they are sharing with their neighbors and friends their experiences with getting vaccinated.

“At first I was skeptical, because I’ve heard it takes a significant amount of time to get a vaccine developed,” said Mya Willis, a public health student at Xavier University of Louisiana. “What persuaded me to get it was the fact that my mom was fully vaccinated, and she did not suffer from any side effects, I didn’t hear her mention or complain about anything related to the vaccination other than the soreness that followed the second shot.”

Willis said as an allied health student she wanted to join other frontline, healthcare workers and the elderly who were among the first groups eligible to get the vaccine.

She shared that now that the vaccine is available to younger residents with specific pre-existing conditions, she decided to step up and get vaccinated.

“When I found out that Xavier was partnered with Tulane University, offering the vaccination to students, I said alright, what do I really have to lose?” Willis said. “I just want to go back to a normal life. I got my first shot three weeks ago, and I am scheduled to receive the second dosage next Tuesday,” Willis added.

Willis is not alone in her initial hesitancy about getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

There are in fact many people in the African American community who were un-

sure about it, experts said. Past historical events have had many in the community on edge about the particular outcomes of the vaccine, but fears have changed as African American health care professionals, elders, and public figures have set the example nationwide demonstrating the importance of getting vaccinated when the time is presented to the wider public.

“I try to tell people to take it at my church and my community to be the example,” said Allene McCann, a registered nurse at Guardian Angel Hospice in Metairie. “I took mine as soon as I could … I think it is safe and I encourage everybody to take it,” McCann added.

The African American community has been hit the hardest by this virus and the

pandemic. The death rates have been extremely high due to the exposure rates.

Pharmacist Christopher Sylvain explained why, in fact, people of this community should consider the vaccine.

“We disproportionately live-in multifamily housing and have direct contact jobs,” Sylvain said. “We already suffer from decreased opportunities in many areas, but vaccination rates have a lot to do with pastors and other community leaders encouraging others to make the right choice,” he said.

Sylvain, who is also a pastor of Faith Full Gospel Baptist Church, and a fellow physician started the Christian Vaccine Access Coalition to assist local churches helping members of the community get

scheduled to be vaccinated. Since last year, Sylvain has been working with the Louisiana Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19.

Disparities to ensure that the Black community had the facts about the vaccine and access to clinical trials inclusion and the latest data on vaccine research.

“The numbers are holding worldwide that vaccination provides almost 100 percent protection against death, while being unvaccinated gives anyone almost 100 percent exposure to death,” Sylvain said.

“The choice should be clear to get vaccinated asap, to not be exposed to the possibility of being infected and possibly dying,” he said. “This is an excellent opportunity to show concern and compas-

sion for others within our own community and it also shows the power of people working together in groups,” Sylvain added.

Natalie Reine, a minister, and member of Faith Full Gospel Baptist Church is supervising the daily work of the access coalition to get individuals as much information they need on receiving the vaccine.

“What we’ve done, we’ve actively taken a role in this by forming a coalition. The coalition actively calls providers on hand, we are connected with the Louisiana Department of Health. We find out if they have the vaccine right now, we found out who out of the providers have the vaccine right now; which type, where are they located, how to make an appointment, that sort of thing,” Reine shared.

Through the coalition’s website, individuals are able to become informed about where the vaccine is available, in real time, and then set appointments or be added to a wait list.

“We gather that information and publicize it on our website in order for the community to view it and know where they are able to get vaccinated,” Reine said.

With the vaccine becoming available to all ages above 16, more young people said they are willing to get in line if it will protect the elderly, their family and help the city reopen fully.

“I think everyone should get the vaccine because it is another step in the right direction,” said Blaine Turner, a biology student at Xavier. “We have the ability to protect ourselves and communities with the vaccine so we should take advantage of it,” Turner said.

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Leading Black Health Group that Sued FDA Responds to Agency Decision to Ban Menthol Cigarettes

we work to confront racism and injustice in all forms, banning menthol cigarettes is one part of the push toward racial justice, health equity, and protecting Black lives.

While a ban on menthol cigarettes is progress, there is more work to be done to end tobacco use and protect the health of African Americans. The AATCLC will continue to fight for justice and health equity in our community. We will continue to work to educate the public about the harmful effects of tobacco on Black Americans and African immigrant communities to ensure we enjoy longer and healthier lives.”

This statement was provided by Keisha N. Brown, president of Lagrant Communications.

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By Keisha N. Brown

The African American Tobacco Leadership Council (AATCLC) released the following statement in response to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes, which follows the organization’s lawsuit filed against the agency last year: “[Thursday’s] decision by the FDA to ban menthol cigarettes is a long-overdue step toward ending years of racialized predation upon African Americans by the tobacco industry.

This decision follows the lawsuit we filed against the agency last year and it signals the beginning of the end. We are encouraged but there is still much work ahead.

For decades, the industry marketed menthols to our kids and communities with exploitative and discriminatory tactics. As

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Part of the Vaccine “Wait and See” Crowd? This is for you

You see the news reports and you hear that infections are continuing to mount. And so, too are the deaths. You’re curious about the vaccine, and you think you might need to be safe rather than sorry, but you have chosen to instead adopt the “wait and see” approach. You think that maybe if you just hold out a little longer, and “wait on it,” you’ll either hear something that will change your mind– or you’ll breeze through this whole pandemic thing without anything ever happening to you. After all, 98% of the people who get infected fully recover.

Most people in the “wait and see” crowd prefer to wait because they are suspicious of the vaccine. The U.S. government and the whole healthcare industry have a sketchy history of experimenting on people without their informed consent. Particularly black people. So this skepticism is well deserved.

In 1932, the Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute, began the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study— probably the most egregious example of the “physician do no harm” conundrum. Blacks were not told the problem was a general disease and were not given penicillin once it was developed as a treatment in the 1930s. Instead, doctors watched the disease progress and ravage their patients bodies for a period of 40 years.

Other examples exist, but this one cannot be disputed.

Small wonder, then, that black people in particular, prefer to “wait and see.”

And it might seem at first glance like a safe position to take, but the anecdotal evidence is clear: there are documented disproportionate rates of COVID-19 illness and death in black communities all across America. You can find them in the nearly 600,000 people who didn’t recover from their infections.

“Wait and see” might be a better strategy if it were not for the healthcare inequities we face.

Clearly, the Trump administration– with its constant dismissal of the virus as a hoax and a non-issue– did nothing to make healthcare equity in this pandemic was a priority. President Biden has taken a vastly different approach.

But don’t take my word for it.

Facebook.com/BlackDoctors.org and Youtube.com/BlackDoctors.org. 7PM tonight.

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Biden-Harris Administration Delivers Funds to Support Older Americans’ Health

“The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to expanding access to health care, nutrition services, caregiving, and opportunities to age in place for all older Americans.”

In the first 100 days, the Biden-Harris Administration has taken significant steps to address the health and security of older adults, the White House stated.

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Community Living has released $1.4 billion in funding from the American Rescue Plan for Older Americans Act programs, including initiatives to support vaccine outreach and coordination, address social isolation, provide family caregiver support, and offer nutrition support.

The department also plans to fund justice programs to ensure the safety and protection of older adults.

According to a White House fact sheet released on May 3, officials plan to distribute the funds as follows: • $750 million for meals for older adults.

With this funding for Older Americans Act nutrition programs, states will be able to continue home-delivered meals as well as “drive-through” or “grab-andgo” meals for older adults who typically would participate in meal programs at community centers that have been closed due to the pandemic. It will also allow states to re-open meal program locations safely that might have closed during the pandemic.

• $460 million for Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) through the Older Americans Act. This funding provides help to those who need it for help with household chores and grocery shopping; transportation to essential services (such as grocery stores, banks, or doctors); and case management. The funding can also be used to vaccinate older Americans and

In addition to the funding announced today, the Administration has:

address the effects of extended social isolation.

• $44 million for evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention. This includes programs to address fall prevention, managing a chronic disease, and programs to detect and reduce depression among older Americans.

• $145 million to help family caregivers support their loved ones. This funding for the National Family Caregiver Support Program will assist family and informal caregivers to provide in-home supports, including counseling, respite care, train-

ing and more.

• $10 million to safeguard the health and welfare of residents in long-term care facilities. These funds will support State Long-term Care Ombudsman programs to advocate on behalf of residents of long-term care facilities across the country. This money will allow ombudsman programs that are advocating for residents to safely go back into facilities after they had to discontinue that support during the pandemic, and continue to promote the health, safety, welfare, and rights of residents.

The announcement coincided with a presidential proclamation honoring May 2021 as Older Americans Month.

“The proclamation recognizes that older Americans and families have faced substantial challenges during the last year, and their resilience and strength have made our country stronger,” administration officials stated. “Older adults deserve to age with dignity and have equitable access to the long-term care system, regardless of race, sexual orientation or gender identity, disability, or socioeconomic status.

• Expanded Funding for Home and Community Based Services.

• Increased Access to Affordable Housing for Seniors.

• Provided COVID-19 Vaccinations and Testing for Elderly Residents of HUDAssisted Housing.

• Expanded Nutrition Assistance for LowIncome Seniors.

• Proposed Robust Investments in the Caregiving Economy.

“The American Jobs Plan proposes to invest an additional $400 billion to expand access to these long-term services and supports for older Americans,” administration officials stated.

“This investment will also support wellpaying caregiving jobs that include benefits and the ability to collectively bargain, building state infrastructure to improve the quality of services and to support workers.

“The funding will take significant steps to help older adults get high-quality care in their homes and communities.”

Closing the gap: Morehouse School of Medicine is shaping tomorrow’s leaders

By James Lillard, RollingOut.com Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta (MSofM) is known for its worldrenowned school. But did you know that MSofM also offers an online one-year biotechnology master’s program and a 14-month health informatics master’s program? In fact, Intelligent.com ranks the school’s biotechnology master’s program No. 1 out of hundreds of programs nationwide.

What is biotechnology? It is a broad area of technology that uses living organisms and specimens to develop or make products. Examples of biotechnology include beer brewing, agricultural sciences, animal breeding, genetic engineering of cells and plants, drugs such as biologics like insulin and, most recently, the COVID-19 vaccine.

James Lillard, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology and associate dean for research affairs at MSofM, said biotechnology exists everywhere in our everyday lives. “The protein in paint on your wall is engineered. The clothes you wear are engineered cotton,” Lillard explained.

The common occurrence of biotechnol-

ogy led leaders at the school to create the online master’s program. Angelita Howard, Ed.D., MSofM’s assistant dean for online education and expanded programs, said the school’s five-week summer bridge program introduces and exposes potential graduate students to the field of biotechnology or health informatics. This

program provides students with a $500 stipend, guaranteed admissions into either program, along with a $1,000 tuition scholarship.

Ultimately, the hope is for students to have access and gain knowledge of this lucrative industry. “It’s important to create new entrepreneurs in this space,” Lil-

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lard said.

Lillard stressed that increasing diversity in the scientific workforce is what makes online programs so important. African Americans are underrepresented in the health science field and account for less than three percent of executive leadership positions.

“Our mission is to help the underserved and to address this issue of health equity,” Howard added. “We are exposing more African Americans in this space to create a pipeline for opportunities and to affect change in the minority population as it relates to access to drugs and health care.”

Additionally, MSofM offers an executive master’s in public health program to further the reach of minorities in the industry who desire to serve the community through leadership.

Morehouse President and Dean Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D., shared the critical need of these industries.

“New discoveries in biotechnology. health informatics and public health are transforming life and science as we know it, and Morehouse School of Medicine’s summer program allows students and professionals a path to these industries,” Rice said. “As we look to the future, explore new ways of providing people with the care they need and make health equity and personalized medicine a reality, programs such as these play an integral role.”

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Spike Lee doc to examine How New Yorkers faced tragedies from 9/11 to COVID-19

By Michael “Ice-Blue” Harris, RollingOut.com

Spike Lee has partnered with HBO Documentary Films to direct “NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021 ½,” a project that will focus on how the city has triumphed through tragedies like the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the coronavirus pandemic.

Lee issued the following statement about the project: “As a New Yawker who bleeds orange and blue (the colors of New York City), I’m proud to have a ‘Spike Lee Joint’ about how our/my city dealt with being the epicenters of 9/11 and COVID-19. With over 200 interviews, we dig deep into what makes NYC the greatest city on this God’s earth and also the diverse citizens who make it so.

“Over centuries pundits and straight haters have proclaimed NYC was dead and stinkin’, only to be proved wrong. You will lose ya money betting against New York, New York. And dat’s da truth, Ruth.

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HBO described “NYC Epicenters 9/112021 ½” as a multi-part documentary taking an “unprecedented, sweeping portrait of New Yorkers as they rebuild and rebound, from a devastating terrorist attack through the ongoing global pan-

demic.” The documentary will debut later this year on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Sept.

11 attacks.

“We’re thrilled to have another groundbreaking HBO documentary event from Spike Lee,” Lisa Heller and Nancy Abraham, co-heads of HBO Documentary Films, told Deadline. “From documenting the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans to the 9/11 attack on

New York City and beyond, we treasure Spike’s singular capacity to chronicle and pay tribute to the human toll of these historic events while bearing profound witness to the strength and resiliency of the human spirit.”

Lee previously directed the docuseries “4 Little Girls” and “When the Levees Broke” for HBO. The post Spike Lee doc to examine how New Yorkers faced tragedies from 9/11 to COVID-19 appeared first on Rolling Out.

Kobe Bryant, LeBron James Rookie cards sell for millions

By Michael “Ice-Blue” Harris, RollingOut.com Kobe Bryant’s rookie card is worth quite a small fortune. One of them has sold for $1.795 million according to Goldin Auctions on Saturday, March 6. Goldin Auctions is an online auction house and repository for sports memorabilia.

The “1996-97 Topps Chrome Refractors #138 Kobe Bryant Rookie Card — BGS PRISTINE/ Black Label 10” rated perfect 10s across the board.

Ken Goldin, the founder of Goldin Auctions told ESPN on Sunday, “Kobe Bryant was one of the fiercest competitors of all time and a truly largerthan-life figure. His rookie card is one of the rarest in existence and one of only two on earth in black label pristine condition, which is the highest possible obtainable grade. The fact that it sold for the final auction price of $1.795 million, the all-time record for any Kobe Bryant card, speaks to just how beloved he was around the world.”

Bryant debuted with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1996 straight out of Lower Merion High School in Philadelphia. Skipping college and going straight to the pros, Bryant had been a star on his high school basketball team since his freshman year.

“The enthusiasm for trading cards and memorabilia has never been higher. As even more people recognize the incredible investment opportunity these assets offer, we anticipate that interest will only continue to grow,” Goldin further commented to ESPN. Fellow Los Angeles Laker LeBron James’ rookie card from the Exquisite Collection also scored a hefty sum this weekend as it was sold for $1, 537,500. The signed patch rookie card is considered in near mint to mint-plus condition, per Goldin. It is the first of its kind ever produced.

James made his NBA debut in the 2003-2004 season and was selected by his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers straight out of St. Vincent-St. Mary High School.

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6-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Black CEO

by Aria Ellise, BDO Special Contributor

What were you doing at 6-years-old? You were probably doing what most of us did, go to school, playing with our friends and toys and pretty much being a kid. Well, 6-yearold entrepreneur Lily Adeleye is doing all that and more as she has become the youngest Black CEO of a major company and a deal with Walmart.

That’s right, she’s only six.

Her company, Lily Frilly, was started three years ago with an emphasis on hair bows, but apparel and accessories have since been added. What started as a creative outlet turned into a business after Adeleye showed some of her designs to her mother’s social media followers.

With this week’s launch at Walmart, Adeleye becomes the youngest chief executive officer of a Black-owned brand with product offered through the retailer. Four styles of her hair bows are being sold. This is the second major retailer that she has made inroads with for distribution. Last year Lily Frilly was introduced at Target. The motherdaughter team hopes that the Walmart Inc. deal will inspire the next generation of girlrun start-ups.

The Cutest Executive Officer (CEO) is the daughter of beauty and lifestyle entre-

This year’s projected volume for Lily Frilly is expected to be nearly $2 million, with hair bows and accessories accounting for nearly 70 percent of the volume and apparel comprising the remaining 30 percent. Lily Adeleye said “seeing little girls happy” is the best part, whereas activations can be a little harder, due to “a lot of picture taking and smiling, when you don’t feel like it,” her mother said.

After a recent in-person activation in Florida, she whispered, “‘Mommy, this is hard work,’” her mother said with a laugh.

“But she makes sure that she still shows up.

She puts a smile on her face and she gets it done.”

According to Walmart’s Omni Associate Merchant Hair Accessories, Jennifer Aguirre, Walmart is ready, willing and able to help Lily Frilly become more successful.

“We are excited to bring Lily Frilly to Walmart and honored to work with Lily Adeleye,” remarks Aguirre. “…she represents the youngest founder among our Black-Owned business initiative. We have been enchanted by Lily’s ingenuity and designs. We are certain that the assortment will captivate our young customers and inspire them to express their beauty and confidence with their hair.”

For more on Lily Frilly, check out www.

LilyFrilly.com or Walmart.com.

preneur Courtney Adeleye, who built The Mane Choice, a multimillion-dollar hair care business. A registered nurse and a University of Michigan graduate, Courtney took a science-based approach to developing natural hair care products. She has a range of products made for all ethnicities and has generated more than $100 million in sales in the past seven years.

According to Courtney, “Lily Frilly started out as a brand my daughter Lily and myself created, as I have always believed it’s important to let your children follow their passions, whether that be art, sports or in this case, growing a business.” She continued, “Now, Lily Frilly has become so much more than just that – it’s become a brand children love, as well as a symbol of inspiration and confidence for young girls as well as for the black community. It’s amazing to see what kids can do, and we’re so glad Walmart is providing this platform to give Lily Frilly the room and attention it warrants.”

“Lily is inspired by business overall. I have three kids and she is the only one who has her own company. She is constantly creating logos and asking to bring new items to market. I don’t know if it’s genetic or that something is just in her,” Courtney Adeleye said.

“The plan is to go down as many aisles as we can,” with bags and shoes on her daughter’s to-do list.

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Phillip Michael Thomas: Still Smooth at 70+ Shaq’s Son, Shaqir O’Neal,

by Tarshua Carter Williamson, BlackDoctor.org

Best known as the cool, smooth-talking Detective Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs in the 1980s hit television series, “Miami Vice,” legendary actor Phillip Michael Thomas made a name for himself in the entertainment industry, with a career that spanned over four decades. Thirty-six years after the premiere of the iconic show, fans of it still hold it in high esteem.

Thomas was born in Columbus, Ohio, but grew up in San Bernardino, California. He is of African American, Native American, Irish, and German descent.

His father, Louis Diggs, was a plant foreman at Westinghouse. Thomas’s mother was Lulu McMorris. He and his seven half brothers and sisters had the surname Thomas, which was the last name of his mother’s first husband.

As a child, he acted in his church’s theater group and, at age 15, while participating in the Pentecostal Delman Heights Four Square Gospel Church choir, became interested in ministry. He graduated from San Bernardino High School in 1967 and briefly worked as a janitor to save money for college. Thomas earned a scholarship to the predominantly black Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, where he studied religion and philosophy after high school.

After two years at Oakwood College, Thomas transferred to the University of California, Riverside. During this time, he auditioned for and won a role in the San Francisco cast of Hair, which began his acting career. Thomas ultimately quit school to pursue acting as a profession, appearing in several features during the 1970s – including the classic black musical drama Sparkle (1976). His big break

came in 1984, when he landed a starring role in the popular television series Miami Vice alongside Don Johnson. And the rest, as they say, is history.

The “Miami Vice” star is a father to elev-

en children, including a famous daughter, Imaj Thomas, who became a country singer. At five, the young Imaj featured alongside her father in the movie “River Of Stone” and has since developed interests in other fields like visual art, humanitarian for world peace, writing and music.

By the time Thomas began playing Tubbs on Miami Vice, the Ohio-born actor was in his mid-30s and had worked on TV, film, and stage productions. He had breathtaking ambitions — he’s actually the person responsible for coming up with the acronym “EGOT” (Winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar Award, and Tony Award–essentially all of the four entertainment awards).

Thomas said he originally coined the term as a mantra mean…“Energy, Growth, Opportunity, and Talent” but acknowledged its double meaning as far back as a 1985 People profile.

Thomas released two solo albums in the ’80s, and you can hear him perform songs on the Miami Vice episodes “The Maze” and “Trust Fund Pirates.” He also composed music for a family musical in the ’90s. But Thomas’ acting career did not take off after Miami Vice went off the air.

After appearing in TV movies in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Thomas took a role in the Italian TV production Detective Extralarge (1991). Following appearances in minor films, Thomas worked on another Italian TV show (We Are Angels, 1997).

Outside of two appearances (four years apart) alongside Johnson in Nash Bridges, Thomas’, he did continue making appearances.

“I’ve been in the entertainment business professionally since 1968,” Thomas says in a 2016 Interview. “…and I’m not going to retire. So I don’t know what tomorrow brings. But it’s a continuum.”

Agrees to Play Basketball at an HBCU

Nationwide — Shaqir O’Neal, the youngest son of NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal, has announced that he will be attending Texas Southern University (TSU) – an HBCU in Houston, Texas. By doing so, he joins Master P’s son, Hercy Miller, and the sons of Deion Sanders who have also committed to supporting HBCUs instead of other colleges and universities.

During a recent interview, he commented, “I just wanted to change the narrative of culture and do something new. A lot of people are going to follow me. You can expect a lot of buckets. I’m trying to get to the [NBA].”

Shaqir also says that he is following

the lead of his brother, Shareef, who also plays basketball for Louisiana State University, an HBCU located in Baton Rouge.

Once Homeless 10-Year Old Boy is Now a U.S. National Chess Master Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a 10-year old boy who lives in New York, is now officially a U.S. National Chess Master. It is a dream come true for the boy who won the New York State chess championship while living in a homeless shelter when he was just 8-years old.

Most recently, Adewumi won his latest championship when he ultimately earned a chess rating of 2223. The United States National Chess Master title is given to players who reached a rating of over 2200 points accrued from games, which Adewumi achieved.

It came just 2 years after Adewumi gained national attention in winning the National State chess championship. He learned chess just within a year after he and his family arrived in the US in 2017 as they fled from Nigeria due to fears of terrorist attacks.

During their first years in New York City, his family was living in a homeless shelter

near a school where there was a chess program. When several people learned about his situation, a GoFundMe fundraiser was launched and eventually raised $254,000, which helped them move to a better home where they currently reside.

Last year, a biography called My Name is Tani based on his life was published and is set to be produced as a film with Paramount Pictures.

Children’s Defense Fund Preparing to Open Summer Freedom Schools

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

The Children’s Defense Fund has always lived by the motto that children are the future.

As young people of color are the majority of youth in America, the nonprofit organization is ramping up its Freedom Schools program.

Dr. Starsky Wilson, the president and CEO of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), said the schools incorporate “the totality of CDF’s mission by fostering environments that support children and young adults to excel and believe in their ability to make a difference in themselves and in their families, schools, communities, country, and the world with hope, education, and action.”

Dr. Wilson noted that students in the program are known as scholars.

“By providing K-12 scholars with rich, culturally relevant pedagogy and high-

quality books that deepen scholars’ understanding of themselves and all they have in common with others in a multiracial, multicultural democratic society, CDF Freedom Schools programs further empowers scholars to believe in their ability and responsibility to make a difference while instilling in them a love of reading to help them avoid summer learning loss,” Dr. Wilson remarked during a live appearance on the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s morning breaking news program, “Let It Be Known.”

Recent Freedom Schools’ surveys found that 65 percent of scholars liked to read, while 81 percent enjoyed talking about what they read.

Approximately 86 percent reported they read many different kinds of books, 100 percent reported wanting to go to college, 98 percent reported they could achieve their goals, and 89 percent said they believed they could make a difference.

The CDF outlined the following behav-

Dr. Wilson ioral benchmarks: Seventy-seven percent of scholars reported they were willing to listen to dif-

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ferent opinions.

Sixty-eight percent of scholars said standing up for what they think is fair.

Sixty-three percent of scholars said that they could solve problems without yelling at others.

Sixty-eight percent of scholars said that they know how to solve arguments without fighting.

Seventy-nine percent of scholars said learning how to cooperate to solve problems.

“Freedom Schools are not just culturally responsive, but we invest in young people – developing their sense of self-agency that they can make a difference in their home, their community and in the world,” expressed Dr. Wilson, who is expected to discuss Freedom Schools further, and the most recent CDF State of America’s Children 2021, during the NNPA’s annual summer convention in June.

Registration for the convention is free, and those interested can sign up at www. virtualnnpa2021.com.

For the summer Freedom Schools program, CDF officials said they utilized the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Reading Inventory to measure scholars’ reading achievement.

They said 76.7 percent of scholars did not experience summer learning loss.

While currently at a 60 percent parent participation rate, CDF is striving to increase this number by soliciting different workshop topic ideas that resonate with the community’s needs.

“It’s absolutely critical that we are there for our children,” Dr. Wilson insisted.

“We can’t fall into a trap. I had a mentor who heard me say that I work hard, so my sons don’t have to.

“He told me that everything I had said was good except for the last part. He said, ‘the part about you work so hard, so they don’t have to.

“Don’t set them up for failure like that because the reality is that you pushed through the struggle as far as you could, so you prepare them for the struggle.’”

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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,

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.Affirmative Pre-applications willEqual be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 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 pre Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Incoffices seeks: applications must be returned to HOME INC’s at 171 Orange Street, fast Third paced petroleum company needs a full Extremely Reclaimer Operators Floor, New Haven,and CTMilling 06510.Operators with current licensing and clean driving record, be willing to travel throughout the North- time (which includes on call and weekend coverage) detail oriented experienced Dispatcher. A strong logistics backeast & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits ground and a minimum of one year previous petroleum exContact: Rick Tousignant Phone: 860- 243-2300 perience required. Send resume to: 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

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 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 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 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) Of-

NOTICE

Listing: Dispatcher

NOTICIA

HELP WANTED:

Union Company seeks:

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

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

fice Clerks, 3) Truck/Scalehouse Dispatcher (experience and computer knowledge preferred) and 4) Equipment Operators and Laborers 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.

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

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

We all have

DREAMS.

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

Let Job Corps SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY help you Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2,achieve 2016 at its office atyours.

28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Now enrolling!

Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

Tuition-free career training High school diploma programs A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith College credit opportunities Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

Housing, meals and medical care provided

Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority OfFor more information, visit jobcorps.gov or call (800) 733-JOBS [5627] fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

New Haven County - Jesselica Rodriguez – Rodriguez.Jesselica@JobCorps.org !"#$%&'(")*+,$*-+#".&/$*0(1,)2*3*4&//2*0(,,&"*5*Conner.Kelly@JobCorps.org Waterbury and Surrounding Areas – Abdul Shabazz – Shabazz.Abdul@JobCorps.org

The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to CAREERS HERE reduce theBEGIN 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.

Job Corps is a U.S. Department of Labor Equal Opportunity Employer Program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. TDD/TTY telephone number is (877) 889-5627.

LG CT fence company looking for an Automated Gate/Security Technician.

This person will be required to work with hand tools, electrical test equipment, welding equipment and be outside a good deal of their working day, but also will have to have the skills to install and trouble shoot fairly sophisticated electronic gate operators, camera/surveillance equipment and security systems. Must have OSHA 10, read plans/ prints, able to read, write and speak English. Medical fitness and drug test required.

This position would pay 30.00 to 35.00 per hour based on qualifications with room to advance in the future. Benefits include paid vacations, sick time, holidays, a company contribution towards health insurance as well as a company pickup once training program is completed.

Prior experience a major factor in our hiring decision. Send resume to gforshee@ atlasoutdoor.com We are an EOE/AA employer.

Fence Erecting Subcontractors: Large CT Fence & Guardrail Contractor is looking for Experienced Fence Subcontractors with at least 5 years of experience in commercial fence. Work available 10-12 months per year, highest labor rates paid.

OHSA 10 safety training required and valid CT driver’s license. Must have a reliable truck, proper insurance coverage and your own tools. We are an AA/EOE company.

Send resumes/inquiriesto: rhauer@atlasoutdoor.com.

Help Wanted – Lg CT fence company looking for an experienced foreman in CT and surrounding states who will work as a leader of small crews. Individual will be responsible for all types of fencing installation. Specific tasks include but are not limited to: May be responsible for crew(s) of two or more individuals, manage and troubleshoot problems that arise on site and notify superintendent when needed, ensures employees adhere to all safety and company policies and practices, able to perform fence installation and setting posts as indicated by plans, project site clean-up. Job requirements include the following: preferably have up to 5 years’ experience, have a valid driver’s license with acceptable driving record, must be able to get a DOT medical card, OSHA safety training required prior to start of employment, pass drug screening and a physical test. Medical, vacation and other benefits included, all necessary equipment provided. We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.

Black & Boucher, LLC

Invitation to Bid: 2 Notice has an immediate opening for experienced asphalt milling machine operators for

our VILLAGE Wirtgen W220’s and W50 machines. Positions are full time seasonal work.

SAYEBROOKE Town of Bloomfield Union Old Saybrook, CTwages along with Union Benefits (Health, Pension, Annuity, Supplemen-

Full

Assessor

Must be willing to work nights and some weekends. Work (4 Buildings,tal17Unemployment).

Units) is in the New York/New England area. Black & Boucher, LLC is an Affirmative Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project Time-Benefited Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive

consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual Salary RangeNew Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Cast-origin, and protected veteran status. orientation, gender identity, national $83,663-$129,768 in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, Pre-employment drug testing.

Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, ForFlooring, more details, visit our website Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. www.bloomfieldct.org tasks in facilitating the purchase of a wide variety of materials, supplies, This contract is subject to state set-aside Performs and contract compliance requirements.

BUYER

Town of Bloomfield

equipment and professional services. The position requires an associate’s degree in business administration and 3 years purchasing experience. A bachelor’s degree in Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 business administration may substitute for 2 years of the work experience. $28.90 Zoning Enforcement Officer Anticipated Start: August 2016plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply: Human Resources $35.13 15, hourly, Full-time, benefited Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492.

Project documents available via ftp link below: Forms will be mailed upon request from the Department of Human Resources or may $38.03 hourly http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage be downloaded from the Department of Human Resources Web Page. Phone: 203-294Pre-employment drug testing.

2080, Fax: 203-294-2084. The closing date will be that date the 40th application form/ For details and how to apply go to www.

Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 resume is dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com received, or May 19, 2021, whichever occurs first. EOE bloomfieldct.org AA/EOE

QSR

HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 STEEL CORPORATION Animal ControL AA/EEO EMPLOYER

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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Part-time, 19 hours per week. Assistant needed to help operate and maintain a municipal animal control facility in accordance with State statutes and local ordinances. Must be available to work evenings, holidays, weekends, and able to respond to calls within 30 minutes. This position requires a valid CT driver’s license and the ability to lift and carry up to 100 pounds. Rate of pay: $12.00 to $15.00 hourly. Apply by Friday, May 21, 2021 to: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main St., Room #301, Wallingford, CT 06492. (203) 294-2080; Fax: (203) 294-2084. EOE

INNER-CITY 27,12 2016 - August 02, THE INNER-CITYNEWS NEWS July - May , 2021 - May 18,2016 2021

Youth Services Administrator Town of Portland, NOTICECT (EOE) Deadline: June 11, 2021 or until filled

VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE Send resume with Town application and three letters of reference to: Office of the First Selectwoman

HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, P.O. Box 71, Portland, CT 06480-0071 is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develFull-time hoursat(M-F), starting $50,000 full fringe apbenopment40 located 108 Frank Street, NewDOQ; Haven.non-union Maximumposition; income limitations efits package.

Subject to pre-employment drug/alcohol testing & criminal history backply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y ground check. Required: Bachelor’s degree in psychology, counseling, or a related field 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have plus 3 years progressively responsible experience in youth & family counseling, includbeen received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon reing at least one year in a supervisory capacity, or equivalent combination of education quest by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed pre& experience. Must have valid CT Driver’s License; First Aid and CPR certification. applications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Director of Housing Choice Voucher Program. FT. The Housing Authority of the City of Bristol is seeking an energetic individual who has at least three (3) years experience as an HCV Program manager or supervisor. Knowledge of HUD-related regulations required.

Must be able to work flexibleDE hours.

Must PRE-SOLICITUDES have a valid CT Driver’s License and VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS ALQUILER DISPONIBLES be able to travel at times. Salary commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits.

Send resume references May 28,House 2021 ytodeMitzy Rowe, Executive Offi cer, HOME INC,and en nombre de labyColumbus la New HavenChief Housing Authority, está The Housingpre-solicitudes Authority of para the City of Bristol, 164 Jerome 06010. aceptando estudios y apartamentos de un Avenue, dormitorioBristol, en este CT desarrollo The BristolenHousing an equal ubicado la calle Authority 109 FrankisStreet, Newopportunity Haven. Se employer. aplican limitaciones de ingresos

NOTICIA

máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25

julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientesWaiting pre-solicitudes 100) State Program Congregate Housing List(aproximadamente Opening Notice

en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición Designed 62 and older who have temporary or permanent culties llamandotoa assist HOMEresidents INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberándiffi remitirse with one or more activities dailyStreet, living,tercer to live independently aparta las oficinas de essential HOME INC en 171 of Orange piso, New Haven ,inCTtheir 06510 . ments, the Congregate Program provides housing combined with supportive services, such as one daily meal, housekeeping, and personal emergency response. Our residents are encouraged to live independently in a home environment, while receiving services.

Starting May 10, 2021 we are accepting pre-applications for our Congregate Program. To apply, go to www.pha-web.com/portal/applicant/bristolct/ or call Laura LaMar at 860-5851236.

NEW HAVEN

242-258 Fairmont Ave 2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA

We are an equal housing provider and we do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital or familial status.

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

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

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.

Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority Office, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

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

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

Assistant Director of Information Systems & Technology

Full Time - Benefited $75,909 to $117,166

Pre-employment drug testing. For details and how to apply go to www. bloomfieldct.org AA/EOE

QSR STEEL CORPORATION

APPLY NOW!

Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Top pay for top performers. Health Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay.

Invitation to Bid: 2 Notice

Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER nd

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

Class A Full time driver Old Saybrook, CT

(4 Buildings, 17 Units) for a petroleumTaxand pool Exempt & NotwaPrevailing Wage Rate Project ter company for deliveries for day and weekends. Previous New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Castexperience required. Competiin-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, tive wage, 401(k). Send resume Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, to: HR Manager, P. O. Box 388, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection.

Guilford, CT 06437.

This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements. ********An Affirmative Action/Equal Bid Extended, Due Date: Opportunity Employer**********

August 5, 2016 Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Project documents Town of Bloomfi eldavailable via ftp link below: http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage

Request for Qualifications

Maintainer II - Driver Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com

The South Central Regional Council of Governments (SCRCOG) seeks

HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses the services of one or more consultants for transportation planning studies Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 during the 2022 Fiscal Year (July 1, 2021- June 30, 2022). Disadvantaged AA/EEO EMPLOYER

Full-time, benefited $27.94 hourly Pre-employment drug testing. For details and how to apply go to www. bloomfieldct.org AA/EOE

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Business Enterprise firms are strongly encouraged to respond as prime contractor or to play a significant role within a consultant team. Responses are due by June 4, 2021, (12 noon local time). The full RFQ document can be viewed at the Council’s website: www.scrcog.org or can be made available upon request. Contact Stephen Dudley at 203-466-8624 with any questions.

THE INNER-CITYNEWS NEWS July - May , 2021 - May 18,2016 2021 INNER-CITY 27, 12 2016 - August 02,

Graphics Designer/Visual Communicator

NOTICE FHI Studio is seeking a Graphic Designer/Visual Communicator to support project

managers and marketing staff in producing graphics, marketing materials, and visually engaging documents and digital content.

The successful candidate should have mastery VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop). This early career position brings potential for growth; both with respect to creative graphics development HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, and leadership. The position will also include writing and review of marketing material is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develfor clarity, consistency, and brand messaging. The candidate should have a bachelor’s opment located at 108 Frank Street,orNew Haven. Maximum limitations apdegree in graphic design, marketing, communication.

The income candidate should demply.

Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y onstrate the capability of developing a strong visual identity for materials that are not 25, 2016 and ending sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have already branded, as well when as support creative, visual storytelling.

Proficiency in Adobe been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon reAfter Effects and Premiere for video creation/editing and familiarity with HTML/CSS by calling HOME INCare at preferred.

203-562-4663 during those hours.

Completed preforquest editing/updating websites Salary commensurate with level of experiapplications mustto graphicdesigner@fhistudio.com, FHI be returned to HOME INC’s offices at Studio, 416 171 OrangeAsylum Street, Third ence. Send resume Street, Floor, New Haven, FHI CT 06510.

Hartford, CT 06103.

Studio is an EEO/AA /VEV/Disabled employer.

NOTICIA

QSR STEEL CORPORATION

Electric Utility System Operator/Dispatcher

Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Top pay for top performers. Health Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay.

Operates electric distribution substation and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for an electric utility serving 25,000 customers. Coordinates electric system switching and places equipment in and out of service during routine and emergency operations. Requires HS diploma/GED with 2 years experience in the operation of Distribution SCADA equipment and/or switchboards used in the distribution of electricity. Experience and training may be substituted on a year for year basis.

Must maintain valid system operation certification from Connecticut Valley Exchange (CONVEX) or other approved agency or be able to obtain the same within 90 days of hire. Must posses and maintain a valid State of CT Driver’s License. $ 34.63 - $ 41.15 per hour plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply to: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492.

Forms will be mailed upon request form the Department of Human Resources or may be downloaded from the Department of Human Resources Web Page. Fax #: (203) 294-2084. Closing date will be June 8, 2021. EOE.

APPLY NOW!

Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

DELIVERY PERSON

NEEDED

The Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk, CT is requesting proposals forPRE-SOLICITUDES Legal Services.

VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER DISPONIBLES Request for Proposal documents can be viewed and HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está printed www.norwalkha.org underde the Business aceptando at pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos un dormitorio en estesection desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven.isSean aplican limitaciones de ingresos RFP’s/RFQ’s Norwalk Housing Equal Opportunity máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 Employer.Adam Bovilsky, Executive Director. julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100)

Part Time Delivery Needed

en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

(203) 387-0354

Construction

Seeking to employ experienced individuals in the labor, foreman, operator and teamster trades for a heavy outside work statewide. Reliable personal transportation and a valid drivers license required. To apply please call (860) 621-1720 or send resume to: Personnel Department, P.O. Box 368, Cheshire, CT06410.

NEW HAVEN

242-258 Fairmont Affirmative Action/Equal OpportunityAve Employer M/F/V Drug 1.5 FreeBA, Workforce 2BR Townhouse, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA

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

ELM CITY COMMUNITIES

Invitation for Bids Robert T. Wolfe Building Upgrade Phase 2

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

Elm City Communities is currently seeking bids for Robert T. Wolfe Building Upgrade St. New CT Phase 2. Haven, A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City Communities’ Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/ gateway beginning on

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY Monday, May 10, 2021 at 3:00PM.

Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

The South Central Regional Council of Governments (SCRCOG) seeks the

Request for Qualifications

One/Two Day a Week,

Must Have your Own Vehicle If Interested call

Town of Bloomfield

NOTICE OF INVITATION FOR BID HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF DANBURY Electrical Services IFB No. B21002

SCOPE:

The Housing Authority of the City of Danbury hereby issues this Invitation for Bid to provide Electrical Services

BID SUBMITTAL RETURN:

Housing Authority of the City of Danbury, 2 Mill Ridge Rd, Danbury, CT 06811 Envelope Must be Marked: IFB No.B21002, Electrical Services

SUBMITTAL DEADLINE

Custodian

May 20, 2021 at 10:00am (EST)

$23.40/hourly (benefited)

CONTACT PERSON FOR IFB DOCUMENT: Pre-employment drug testing. AA/EOE. Invitation to Bid: Ms. Devin Marra, Director of Procurement,Telephone: 203-744-2500 x1410 For Details go to www.bloomfieldct.gov E-Mail: dmarra@hacdct.org 2nd Notice

CITY OF MILFORD Old Saybrook, CT

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

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

Class A Full time driver

Seeking qualified condidates fill for petroleum and pool water company for deliveries for day and weekends. Previous (4 to Buildings, 17aUnits) experience required. numerous vacancies to include, Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate ProjectCompetitive wage, 401(k). Send resume to: HR Manager, P. O. Box 388, Guilford, CT 06437.

Deputy Assessor, Mechanic ********An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer********** Sewer Line, Public Health Nurse New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Castand more. Forin-place information and Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Siding, Authority of the City of Norwalk, TheVinyl Housing detailed application instructions, Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, CT is requesting proposals for Development Partner for visit www.ci.milford.ct.us Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection.Colonial Village Phase II construction.

Click on SERVICES, JOBS and Request forcompliance Proposal documents can be viewed and printed at www.norwalkha.org This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract requirements.

JOB TITLE. under the Business section RFP’s/RFQ’s Norwalk Housing is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Town of Bloomfield Adam Bovilsky, Executive Director.

Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Project documents available via ftp link below: http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage Zoning Enforcement Officer

POLICE OFFICER

Full-time, benefited Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com Wallingford Police Department is seeking qualified applicants HCC encourageshourly the participation of all Veteran,The S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses $38.03 for Police Officer. $1,275.60 weekly plus an excellent fringe benefit Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483

services of one or more consultants for transportation planning studies during A 2022 pre-bid conference will 1, be2021held atJune the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith the Fiscal Year (July 30, 2022).

Disadvantaged Business Street Seymour, CTstrongly at 10:00encouraged am, on Wednesday, July 2016.

Enterprise firms are to respond as 20, prime contractor or to play a significant role within a consultant team. Responses are due by June 4,Bidding 2021, (12 noon local Thefrom full RFQ document can beAuthority viewed atOfthe documents aretime). available the Seymour Housing Council’s website: www.scrcog.org or can be made available upon request. fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

Contact Stephen Dudley at 203-466-8624 with any questions.

Pre-employment drug testing.

For details and how to apply go to www.bloomfieldct.org AA/ EOE

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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package. The physical performance, written and oral board exams will AA/EEO EMPLOYER

be administered by the South Central Criminal Justice Administration.

Candidates must register at: www.PoliceApp.com/WallingfordCT. Registration/Application deadline is Wednesday, May 12, 2021. The registration requires a fee of $85.00. EOE

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