Kerm Carolina for Mayor

CITY OF NEW HAVEN“Putting Neighborhoods First”

- 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

- 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 Development1) Enhance the waterfront (Long Wharf)

1) Build a Pier along the coast for bicyclist and pedestrians2) New Restaurants & Retail3) Luxury Apartments (w/underground parking)4) Aquarium /New Haven Historical Museum5) Mini Ferry rides across Long Island Sound to Lighthouse park/beach

2) Create a Major Transportation Hub1) Create traffic calming, bicycle and pedestrian friendly streets2) Enhance rail service3) Expand Parking4) Create New Retail5) Provide Commuter Services

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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 neighborhoods to deter crime

- 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

- 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