Firing Range Update Meeting

Firing Range Update Meeting

Please join me along with Alderman Charles A. Blango & Alderwomen Katrina Jones and top Police & City officials as well as our regional elected officials at a community wide meeting about the Firing Range on Sherman Ave and to discuss the steps being taken to address the issues surrounding the range (noise, quality of life, etc)

• Date: Monday June 22nd
• Time: 6pm
• Place: Hillhouse High School Auditorium

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Catch Basin for Beaver Pond Park

Hi All:

Some big news for Beaver Pond Park - we got funding for a catch basin with some creative maneuvering. A big thanks to fellow Aldermen Yusef Shah - Chair of the Committee, Carl Goldfield, Ward 29 & Roland Lemar Ward 9

New Haven Independent Story

New Haven Register Story

Arbor Day at Beaver Pond Park

Arbor Day Tree Planting

New Haven was recently selected as an official Tree City USA! Our City was selected for this distinction because our residents plant most of the trees here in New Haven. To celebrate this honor and Arbor Day, there will be a tree planting at Beaver Pond Park on Saturday, April 25th at 12:30 p.m.

Rock to Rock

Rock to Rock

On Saturday, April 25th, explore New Haven by bicycle! Rock to Rock is a day-long celebration of New Haven’s rich environmental and cultural resources. Join other bicycle riders travelling between East Rock and West Rock, with celebrations on both sides of the City. Along the way, there will be food, music, opportunities to plant trees and to explore the city parks. You will travel along the Farmington Canal Trail and official City bike lanes. All proceeds, including registration fees, pledges, donations, and sponsorships, will go towards supporting the work of local parks and environmental education organizations. To register and for more information, please visit: www.rocktorock.org.

SCSU Garage

Hi All:

SCSU presented their updated Master Plan last week. They still want to put a 250 car garage at the bottom of the Ella T. Grasso Blvd & Crescent. This is not good. There was coverage on the story by NHI. There is a petition going around also even thought the official time frame passed it is a good idea to sign on.

I would like thank Toni Walker our State Representative & Carl Goldfield - Alderman Ward 29 for coming to the hearing and voicing their opposition to the garage as well.

Check in the comments section of the NHI story for my comments.

Yours,

Moti

Firing Range update 6-23-08

Dear Eric,
The following is the range schedule for this week and next week. This,of course, is subject to change.
June 23-26 - 8:00am-3:45pm
June 24 - no classes scheduled
June 30 - 8:00am-3:45pm
July 1 - no classes scheduled
July 2 - 8:00am-3:45pm
July 3-4 - no classes scheduled

If you should have any questions please feel free to contact the academy at 203.946.6309.

Sincerely,

Academy Staff

Firing Range Activity for the next 2 weeks

Hot of the email...

Dear Eric,



The following is the range schedule for this week and next week. This,of course, is subject to change.



May 19 - 8:00 am-12:00pm

May 20 - no classes scheduled

May 21- 8:00am-3:45pm

May 22-23 no classes scheduled

May 26-30 - no classes scheduled



If you should have any questions please feel free to contact the academy at 203.946.6309.



Sincerely,



Academy Staff

Firing Range schedule for 5-5-08

Dear Eric,

The following is the range schedule for this week and next week. This, of course, is subject to change.

May 5 & 6 - no classes scheduled
May 7 - 8:00 am - 3:45 pm
May 8 & 9 - no classes scheduled
May 12 - 15 - 8:00 am - 3:45 pm
May 16 - no classes scheduled

If you should have any questions please feel free to contact the academy at 203.946.6309.

Sincerely,

K. D. Codish

BIG Clean up at Beaver Pond Park

Dear Friends of Beaver Pond Park and Beaver Hill neighbors,

Please join our second historic collaboration between SCSU and FOBPP. On Sunday, April 27th, 2008 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, the Friends of Beaver Pond Park will team with the Environmental Futurists of SCSU to clean up Beaver Pond Park in and around North Pond. The workday includes removal of invasive species, native tree planting, and litter removal at Beaver Pond Park near the SCSU campus. This event is an ongoing collaboration between FOBPP and SCSU. The Urban Resources Initiative (URI) will provide the trees and bushes to plant and will give technical advice on where and how to plant correctly. SCSU will provide water, fruit, and pastries. Please bring your family and join our efforts to make our park sparkle.

Who: Nan Bartow, Friends of Beaver Pond Park
Colin Bennett, Outreach Coordinator for the Environmental Futurists
What: Major Cleanup at Beaver Pond Park and planting of native trees & bushes
When: Sunday, April27th, 2008 1:00 to 3:00 PM
Where: Beaver Pond Park

Meet at North Pond behind the baseball stadium near the pond. Look for a truck and a group of people. Some of us will be working to the north of the cattail pond near the hillside that leads to Davis and the parking garage.


Nan Bartow
Friends of Beaver Pond Park
480 Ellsworth Ave.
New Haven, CT 06511

Citation Awarded to the SCSU Environmental Futurist

Hi All:

Last night Carl Goldfield & myself awarded a citation to the SCSU Environmental Futurist. They do some really great work with Beaver Pond Park and deserve to be recognized for their efforts.

Below are my remarks at the award presentation.

Citation awarded to the SCSU Environmental Futurist

Aldermanic
Chambers New Haven, April 7, 2008

Comments by Moti Sandman –
Alderman Ward28

It gives me great pride standing here this evening
together with the SCSU Environmental Futurist. This group of young, motivated,
spirited, people have taken a grand vision and started creating a new reality.

Together with Nan Bartow and the Friends of Beaver Pond Park, they
have taken a vision of what we can be and started turning it into something
beautiful.

Their work with SCSU and encouraging the school to
commit to become “Carbon Neutral” is just some of what this group envisioned and
then made a reality.

I trust that the group will continue to move
down the path of envisioning the grand and then moving it to
reality.

I wish you the best of luck and look forward to working
with you in the future.

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New Firing Range Schedule as of 1-15-08

Dear Eric,

The following is the Range Schedule for the next two months. State-mandated In service Firearms Training for the entire department begins this week and runs through March 20th.

There will be no In service Training on January 19, 20 and 21 (Martin Luther King Day weekend) or on March 21, 22 and 23 (Good Friday/Easter weekend).

This schedule, as always, is subject to change.

Please note that on January 16th, the noise from the range will be louder than usual due to required special equipment training.
January 14-18, 8:00am-3:45pm
January 22-25, 8:00am-3:45pm
January 28 - February 1, 8:00am-3:45pm
February 4 - 8, 8:00am-3:45pm
February 11 - 15, 8:00am-3:45pm
February 18 - 22, 8:00am-3:45pm
February 25 - 29, 8:00am-3:45pm
March 3 - 7, 8:00am-3:45pm
March 10-14, 8:00am-3:45pm
March 17-20, 8:00am-3:45pm

If you should have any questions please feel free to contact the academy at 203.946.6309.

Sincerely,

Winter Nature Day

From the Parks Department

Hello All,

I wanted to let you know that next weekend, Saturday, January 12 the New Haven Park Rangers will be offering Winter Nature Day:

CelebratingWinter in the Elm City

Feel free to pass this along to anyone you think will be interested inattending.

Thank you from your friendly neighborhood park rangers.

Dear Eric,

The following is the range schedule for the next two weeks. This, of course, is subject to change.

November 19, 8:00am - 3:45pm
November 20, no classes scheduled
November 21, 8:00am - 3:45pm
November 22-28, no classes scheduled
November 29 & 30, 8:00am - 3:45pm

If you should have any questions please feel free to contact the academy at 203.946.6309.

Sincerely,

Academy Staff

Recycling in New Haven

Dear All:

As you may have read about in the New Haven Independent or in the New Haven Register me and a few colleagues have gotten together over the past few months and put for a new plan for recycling in the City. Below is my stump speech - I would love to know what you think about the idea.

With a special thanks to the following Alders -
Nicholas Shalek
Roland Lemar
Erin Sturgis-Pascale

Thanks,

Moti

Recycling in New Haven

Current Program

Currently in New Haven we have a curb side recycling program with each household having 1 18 gallon bin. The current program is defined as:

Plastics #'s 1 through 7,
Glass Food Jars,
Corrugated Cardboard,
Mixed White Paper,
Newspaper,
Scrap Metal
Waste Oil

If there is any overflow from the bin are to be taken to the City of New Haven Recycling Center located at the City's Transfer Station at 260 Middletown Avenue.


Issues with the Current Program

We have identified a number of short comings with the current program they include but are not limited to:

18 gallon bins are too small
Our yard waste is not being composted
Our organics are not being composted

We believe that a major factor in the current program is that we have given our residents massive 96 gallon garbage bins. These bins enable people to dispose of any thing as long as it fits into a bag and the bin. The reality is that the overflow from the bins are bagged and put into the 96 gallon regular bin.

This then leads to a number of negative factors:

Material that should be recycled is instead put into the Solid Waste stream
Costing the City more money because we pay approximately $85 per ton of MSW and $35 per ton of recyclables

Solutions

We propose that the City provide a larger bin for recycling. Something in the 54 gallon range with wheels. This will encourage people to put more in the bin and have less of a reason not to recycle. The fact that we will be saving around $50 per ton for every additional ton we recycle should help deflect much of the cost of the bins.

This will mean that we will have to contract with a “Single Stream Recycling Facility”, where they are able to handle any mixture of acceptable recyclables and they sort them at their facility.

To further incentivize the program we can contract with a firm such as RecycleBank of Philadelphia who rewards homes for the amount each home recycles. Each RecycleBank Recycling Container has a barcode that is identified by the recycling truck. The amount your home recycles is translated into RecycleBank Dollars that you can use to shop at participating stores.

Programs such as this have been effective in moving the recycling rate from 6% of waste removed to over 30%. This translates into real savings to the environment and City coffers.

Range schedule

The latest range schedule...

Dear Eric,

The following is the range schedule for the next two weeks. This, of course, is subject to change.

November 5 & 6, no classes scheduled
November 7, 8:00am - 3:45pm
November 8, no classes scheduled
November 9, 8:00am - 3:45pm
November 12-14, no classes scheduled
November 15 & 16 , 8:00am - 3:45pm

If you should have any questions please feel free to contact the academy at 203.946.6309.

Sincerely,

Academy Staff

Recent issues in the Ward

Dear All:

I would like to update the ward regarding reported gunfire on Moreland Road & Ellsworth Avenue and High School Students wandering through the neighborhood. I have been working with the Mayor’s Office, the Police Department and the Board of Education to try to come up with a proactive, viable solution.

The issues as I see them are as follows:

Teenagers stashing their bikes in the backyards of our neighbors on Norton Parkway.
This is a trespass and a violation of ones right to not have your home invaded.
The trespassers’ are now targeting the homes where they are hiding their bikes for further criminal activity.
The gunfire that happened over the past week on Moreland and Ellsworth.

With regard to issue 1; there was a meeting on Tuesday 10/30/07 attended by Asst. Chief Redding; Sergeant Steve Shea (our District Manager); Principal of Hillhouse, Dr. Lonnie Garris and a Resource Officer from Hillhouse (similar to a in house police officer). The result of the meeting is that the students will be able to park their bikes at the school now and the BOE will be providing two additional outdoor bike racks along with indoor space for bikes. No student will have the excuse that they don’t have a safe place to park their bike. An announcement was made over the Hillhouse PA system that there will be patrols in the streets, alleys and backyards surrounding the school and that any bikes found will be confiscated by the police.
I am working with the above group to get a contact name and number at the school for residents to call directly if there is a student going through the yards or roaming the streets during school hours. When I get that name and number I will inform the neighborhood.

With regard to issue number 2; in my conversations with the police it became apparent that this is a much more difficult problem to solve. Shell casings were removed from the scene and we don’t know if they match any gun on record. I know that this is not the answer we want and I feel that a proactive approach will help us. I would like to outline a few ideas that can assist in this regard:

I have asked for more patrols in the area and a greater police presences in general.
It is of the utmost importance to make sure that each time there is a crime; you file a report and ask for the case number so you know that it has been filed.
Each time you hear gunfire immediately inform the police, regardless if you think it is from the range or not.

Please note that our police are a data driven force and they will respond only when we can show them that we are in need of greater police service.

As always I may be contacted via
Email – ward28@snet.net
Voicemail – 203-772-1805
Snail Mail – 195 Colony Road, New Haven, CT 06511

Yours truly,

Firing Rage update

Dear Eric,

The following is the range schedule for the next two weeks. This, ofcourse, is subject to change.

October 22 & 23, no classes scheduled
October 24, 8:00am - 3:45pm
October 25, no classes scheduled
October 26, 8:00am - 3:45pm
October 29 & 30, no classes scheduled
October 31, 8:00am - 3:45 pm
November 1 & 2, no classes scheduled

If you should have any questions please feel free to contact the academy at 203.946.6309.

Sincerely,

Academy Staff