Here are twelve pages of ideas we have for the BOA to review for possible cuts to the City's Proposed 2007-2008 Budget.
Citizen's Budget
Press Release
Also, be sure to be there at the BOA Finance Committee Meeting at 6pm Thursday, 4/19/07 (Tomorrow) on the second floor of City Hall.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Budget: Line Item Explanations
The City Budget does not explain all of the line items. Those explanations are reported on Form 106. We have scanned in all of the Forms 106 (10.6 MB) for review. Feel free to download and review for more detailed information about the budget.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Next Steps
Turnout at the April 19th meeting @ 6pm (Aldermanic Chambers, City Hall) is vital. Bring a neighbor or 10. Here is a flyer you can post around your neighborhood or deliver to your neighbors.
DOWNLOAD THE APRIL 19th Flyer!!!
DOWNLOAD THE APRIL 19th Flyer!!!
Correction
All:
I need to make a correction to a posting and email I made about a recent city meeting not being published. Two alderpeople, Ina Silverman and Roland Lemar pointed out that the meeting on monday night about the elderly tax freeze was published in the New Haven Register on Monday, April 2nd, page D5, top of column 2. I relied on someone who works hard to keep up-to-date on things and told me the meeting notice was not published without verifying this myself. I thus forwarded the notice to everyone. The statement was thus: "Someone pointed out that there was an important meeting that again went unpublished with the legal notices. See note below:"
In this email/posting, I also claimed that this was done "again". This was an imprecise attempt to express my frustration about how hard it is to find out about these meetings and how last minute the word is passed along about such meetings. I am sure the BOA properly publishes such notices in the legal section of the NH Register. With modern technology, is this the only option? How many of you regularly read the NH Register Legal Notices? I know this is ultimately each of our responsibility. Still, I think it is a bad way to get citizens involved.
It is hard for citizens to keep informed about meetings or to get proper notification of them unless you check the legal section of the register daily for such postings. Even the city's website does not keep agendas for BOA posted sufficiently far in advance to make room in your schedule and even meetings themselves are sometimes not posted that far in advance (the April 19th meeting just got posted the other day). You seemingly need to keep checking daily to find out what is going on. I think this is a failing of the city to not make it easy for citizens to keep up to date about important meetings. With modern technology, it should not be such a major effort to keep up to date about scheduled public meetings. I suggest a city RSS feed or email broadcasting system. Both would be easy to implement - I am not sure of the "terms of use" agreement, but perhaps using Yahoo or Google Groups to manage such a system like is done here with the Downtown Management Team: http://groups.google.com/group/DWSCMT?msg=subscribe
I appreciate both Ina and Roland for pointing these errors out. I am happy to admit to being wrong when it happens. These are serious topics with serious implications and I hope to communicate things to the best of my ability and correctly. If you find errors with my postings or emails let me know. If you want to help with the organizing as an editor, let me know.
What are your thoughts?
Also, be sure to be there for the meeting on April 19th @ 6pm, Aldermanic Chambers for the budget meeting of the Finance Committee.
Thanks,
Jeffrey Kerekes
I need to make a correction to a posting and email I made about a recent city meeting not being published. Two alderpeople, Ina Silverman and Roland Lemar pointed out that the meeting on monday night about the elderly tax freeze was published in the New Haven Register on Monday, April 2nd, page D5, top of column 2. I relied on someone who works hard to keep up-to-date on things and told me the meeting notice was not published without verifying this myself. I thus forwarded the notice to everyone. The statement was thus: "Someone pointed out that there was an important meeting that again went unpublished with the legal notices. See note below:"
In this email/posting, I also claimed that this was done "again". This was an imprecise attempt to express my frustration about how hard it is to find out about these meetings and how last minute the word is passed along about such meetings. I am sure the BOA properly publishes such notices in the legal section of the NH Register. With modern technology, is this the only option? How many of you regularly read the NH Register Legal Notices? I know this is ultimately each of our responsibility. Still, I think it is a bad way to get citizens involved.
It is hard for citizens to keep informed about meetings or to get proper notification of them unless you check the legal section of the register daily for such postings. Even the city's website does not keep agendas for BOA posted sufficiently far in advance to make room in your schedule and even meetings themselves are sometimes not posted that far in advance (the April 19th meeting just got posted the other day). You seemingly need to keep checking daily to find out what is going on. I think this is a failing of the city to not make it easy for citizens to keep up to date about important meetings. With modern technology, it should not be such a major effort to keep up to date about scheduled public meetings. I suggest a city RSS feed or email broadcasting system. Both would be easy to implement - I am not sure of the "terms of use" agreement, but perhaps using Yahoo or Google Groups to manage such a system like is done here with the Downtown Management Team: http://groups.google.com/group/DWSCMT?msg=subscribe
I appreciate both Ina and Roland for pointing these errors out. I am happy to admit to being wrong when it happens. These are serious topics with serious implications and I hope to communicate things to the best of my ability and correctly. If you find errors with my postings or emails let me know. If you want to help with the organizing as an editor, let me know.
What are your thoughts?
Also, be sure to be there for the meeting on April 19th @ 6pm, Aldermanic Chambers for the budget meeting of the Finance Committee.
Thanks,
Jeffrey Kerekes
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Interesting Debate On the INDEPENDENT
Check out the debate here about education, tweed, more police and more:
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/04/eat_rock_sticke.php#comments
Be sure to turn out on April 19th @ 6pm, Aldermanic Chambers for the budget meeting of the Finance Committee
Elderly tax freeze to be voted on this coming Monday. Read more about it!
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/04/eat_rock_sticke.php#comments
Be sure to turn out on April 19th @ 6pm, Aldermanic Chambers for the budget meeting of the Finance Committee
Elderly tax freeze to be voted on this coming Monday. Read more about it!
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