The document outlines a plan for the City of New Haven with the goal of "Putting Neighborhoods First". It includes expanding early childhood education programs, ensuring access to preschool, increasing funding to classrooms, and collaborating with schools on parenting skills. It also aims to streamline administration, increase technical education, support small businesses, enhance the waterfront, and improve transportation. Additional goals are partnering with the state on hiring residents, improving re-entry programs, community policing, and supporting housing and senior residents. The plan also focuses on energy efficiency, green infrastructure, and cleaner technologies.

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