Mayor: Stamford fireworks a party to celebrate after COVID restrictions
Brianna Gurciullo
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STAMFORD Mayor David Martin wants to bring back fireworks.
The proposed budget for fiscal year 2021-22 that Martin presented to finance board members and city representatives this week includes $85,000 for a fireworks show around Independence Day.
In an interview with the Stamford Advocate before that presentation, Martin said fireworks are “one small piece” of his effort to fully restore the city services that were reduced last year amid budget cuts stemming from the economic strain of the pandemic. He said he also hopes that a fireworks display will serve as a celebration coming more than a year after the pandemic began.
Stamford formed an affordable housing trust. Now they get to divvy up $3,000,000.
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The site of the new deeply affordable housing development located at 72 Franklin Street before the groundbreaking ceremony in downtown Stamford, Conn. on Monday, Oct. 23, 2017.File / Michael Cummo / Hearst Connecticut Media
STAMFORD More than two years of work came to a head this week when the Board of Representatives formally approved terms for the Stamford Affordable Housing Trust.
The fund provides a home for money the Stamford has long collected to bankroll new affordable housing projects. But, under a new directive, the trust fund provides a more public approach towards assessing the city’s below-market housing needs.