1. CITY OF NEW HAVEN
“Putting Neighborhoods First”

2. - Lead the effort to expand pre-natal to age 8
programs that focus on the child’s overall
development
- Ensure that every eligible preschooler in New
Haven has access to a high-quality pre-school
program
- Increase the percentage of educational
expenditures that go directly to the classroom
- Work collaboratively with school leaders to
provide parents with multiple opportunities to
learn and practice academically-oriented parenting
skills for students of all ages
- Work with the next superintendent to reduce the
number of school-based and Central Office
administrators
- Support the development of a coordinated plan to
increase opportunities for our students to gain an
applied technical education

3. - Merge the Economic Development Administration with the
Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism to form the Office of
Community Development and Tourism, helping to make New
Haven a premiere destination for tourism and entertainment, and
a desirable place for economic development
- Create a Small Business Incubator on major avenues of
distressed neighborhoods to support economic independence
and job opportunities
- Create the Office of Small Business Development
1) Enhance the waterfront (Long Wharf)
1) Build a Pier along the coast for bicyclist and pedestrians
2) New Restaurants & Retail
3) Luxury Apartments (w/underground parking)
4) Aquarium /New Haven Historical Museum
5) Mini Ferry rides across Long Island Sound to Lighthouse park/beach
2) Create a Major Transportation Hub
1) Create traffic calming, bicycle and pedestrian friendly streets
2) Enhance rail service
3) Expand Parking
4) Create New Retail
5) Provide Commuter Services

4. - Partner with state legislators to
develop a New Haven residency
requirement for all new city
employees
- Lobby the Civil Service Board to
increase the points awarded to
qualifying New Haven residents from
5 to 10 points.
- Require all developers to hire New
Haven residents and provide livable
wages and benefits
- Increase Youth @ Work employment
opportunities

5. - Create a larger supply of talent
by providing better information
to educational providers about
emerging jobs and skill
requirements
- Collaborate with city employers
to develop a better system for
finding, evaluating, and
arranging job specific training for
prospective employees (ex.
CONNCAT)
- Create meaningful partnerships
between NHPS and city
employers to hire non-college
bound high school graduates

6. - Create a task force to examine the
feasibility of a commuter tax for non-
residents of New Haven who are
public employees
- Authorize forensic audits of the City
and New Haven Public School
System’s budgets to find savings
- Engage in ethical contracting that
saves tax dollars by eliminating quid-
pro-quo political favors
- Engage residents in regular budget
workshops to get ideas about
innovative strategies for increasing
revenue streams

7. - Establish more effective Prison to
Community Re-Entry Programs
- Create and support effective wrap-around
services for youth deemed to be “highly
at-risk” of joining violent gangs
- Support community policing in each
neighborhood
- Advocate for gang-injunctions against
New Haven’s most violent repeat
offenders
- Work collaboratively with police officials
to create a special task force to find and
arrest illegal gun dealers
- Install more street cameras and better
streets lights in the city’s most violent

8. - Develop a targeted, results-based
plan to support low income housing
residents in their efforts to obtain
the skills necessary to become self-
sufficient and economically
independent
- Expand youth programming
opportunities by creating youth
centers in the schools of all
challenging neighborhoods
- Increase resources and technical
support for our seniors to improve
their quality of life

9. - Require energy audits in all City
buildings
- Plant more trees
- Promote LEED Gold certified
buildings
- Use our position as a University
City to work collaboratively to
support investments in cleaner
and greener technologies
- Encourage the use of alternative
modes of transportation

10. - Require energy audits in all City
buildings
- Plant more trees
- Promote LEED Gold certified
buildings
- Use our position as a University
City to work collaboratively to
support investments in cleaner
and greener technologies
- Encourage the use of alternative
modes of transportation