When city officials were sworn in Thursday, the standing-room-only crowd heard a couple of specific proposals for 2006 including a bond package for a new police headquarters.
In his third inaugural address as mayor, Mark Boughton also mentioned a zoning proposal to help preserve Deer Hill Avenue.
"We have a responsibility to preserve our neighbors and to manage the city wisely," Boughton said. "We need strong code enforcement, and we need to develop historic zones in the city and to protect our buildings."
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The historic street above Main Street was once home to Danbury's factory owners and other business leaders. It remains a street with some homes valued above $1 million with spacious front lawns.
Boughton said it might be possible to create a historic zone in the area or some type of overlay zone to protect the street.
Boughton also briefly outlined a public safety bond package that would both pay for a new police headquarters and build a fire station at Danbury Municipal Airport.
After his inauguration speech, Boughton said the entire package would be less than $40 million, because that will equal the amount of bonding the city will retire up to the new bonding date. By doing that, the city won't be borrowing more money than it is now carrying.
Boughton said police headquarters is estimated to cost about $33 million. Fire station equipment is estimated at $500,000. The station itself is estimated at roughly $800,000, although that figure could rise over time, and it was included in a previous bond package.
Now I wasn't there so I don't know if anything else was said but with Boughton spending so much time on illegal immigration, you would think he might of talked about it in his speech. Also, the police union contract, the traffic problem, were major issues which dominated the campaign so I'm surprised that those topics were not mentioned (again I wan't there so I'm not sure he didn't talk about these issues; I can only go with I read at this point). I don't really remember much about Deer Hill Avenue dominating the campaign (although it should be preserved and people are working hard to start the developers) and the new police station is nothing new and has been in the works for some time.
Danbury is growing at a very fast rate and I would of like to heard from the mayor how he plans to deal with the increasing population. Traffic is a nightmare, parents complain about the schools (again, ask any parent who has a kid in the middle school and you'll see what I mean), and the police contract problem is on everybody's minds.
Like we stated before, we were at a town hall meeting a few months ago and the issue we described dominated the meeting. We're working on improving the sound quality of the recording and posting it online. We're also going to do another poll and ask you, the reader, what issue should be Mayor Boughton's highest priority.
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
