NORWALK, Conn. On Tuesday, the Norwalk Common Council unanimously:
Moved forward with work on a new Recreation & Parks master plan
Approved gender neutral language for the City code
Approved a simulator for Norwalk Police
Provided a training facility for prospective firefighters and heard an update on recruitment
Master plan
Director of Recreation and Parks Nick Roberts has moved on and the Common Council is moving forward on an initiative he began in September 2019, authorizing $249,975 for a consultant to create a new Recreation and Parks master plan.
“I believe the last time a master plan was done for Recreation and Parks was nearly 20 years ago or so. However, we’re finally moving in the right direction. And particularly as the city is growing and our parks and open space will become a more vital resource for recreation and other public uses,” Recreation and Parks Committee Chairwoman Darlene Young (D-District B) said.
District Common Council members Tom Livingston and Lisa Shanahan (both Democrats) at a 2020 Council meeting.
NORWALK, Conn. Two Norwalk Common Council members are pushing back on parental perceptions that middle school bathrooms need to be gutted and replaced.
District E Democrats Tom Livingston and Lisa Shanahan say they visited all four Norwalk middle schools and the bathrooms are not as bad as they’re described. In response to their thoughts, the Council Planning Committee voted to remove $38,000 from the planned $1.5 million for bathroom renovations and instead fund the Norwalk Public Library’s newspaper digitization project. This is slated for a full Council vote Tuesday.
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NORWALK, Conn. A roundup of news from Tuesday’s Common Council Public Works Committee meeting:
A new study, tuned to making Norwalk more walkable
NRVT trail segment construction imminent, should be done this year
Flood-prevention efforts said to be success
An agreement to keep coal ash capped
Dumped waste cleaned up fast
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Transportation management plan: ‘a little bit more on mobility for everyone’
“You’ll recall but about 10 years ago we did our first citywide traffic management plan, which was one of the first ones in the region, mostly funded by the state,” Transportation, Mobility and Parking (TMP) Principal Engineer Mike Yeosock said. “And out of that came a lot of a lot of good things: we redid the roadway design manual, identified a lot of projects. We were able to obtain funding for those projects over the years. The city is continually changing and growing and it’s about time to revisit
Norwalk Chief of Operations and Public Works Anthony Robert Carr, during a recent Council Committee meeting.
In Lewis Carroll’s Victorian classic
Through the Looking-Glass, Alice steps through a mirror into a world that is a reflection of the one she already exists in. This fictional account of a familiar yet topsy-turvy reality resonates with our lived experiences during the pandemic, where we must navigate work, school and leisure through a screen.
Using our combined observations of hundreds of Zoom meetings and scholarly insights from the fields of anthropology and psychology, we explore these questions to consider the transformative impact of digital platforms on our work environments and identities.