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New Haven board approves consent items: event street closures, police donations, tax-assistance petitions and school grant amendments
Summary
At its July meeting the board approved multiple consent items including street closures for Yale and the New Haven Street Festival, police donations and equipment purchases, numerous tax-assistance/abatement petitions, and education committee amendments updating school roof grant amounts for Hillhouse, Truman and other projects.
The New Haven Board of Alders approved a series of consent items that included temporary street closures for university and festival events, acceptance of police donations, purchases for the K‑9 unit, multiple tax-assistance and abatement requests, and amendments to school-construction grant applications.
A chief of police item asked the board to accept donations totaling $55,000; the board moved and seconded the item on the consent calendar and approved it without recorded opposition in the excerpt. The police request also included a $500 purchase for a K‑9 from Red Devil Canine (Florida) and an equipment donation valued at $2,400 for patrol K‑9 needs; those items were handled on consent and approved.
The deputy chief administrative officer presented multiple street-closure requests…
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