LOL Moment At State of the City

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The state is using an outdated funding formula that hasn't
changed since twenty thirteen. You know what else hasn't gone
up in costs since twenty thirteen? Nothing. Students needs have
far outpaced current levels of state funding, and we need
a new state education funding formula that's actually tied to
inflacement inflation and provides additional financial support to our highest

(00:23):
need learners. Last state legislation legislative session.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Get a load of this US hundreds of US.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Bemoaning the community members the budget from the governor.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Capital to advocate for more funding the next state legislative.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Session, bemoaning the fact that our schools are under funded,
centric et cetera. Students to struggle and listen to where
he manages to segue, it's it's delegation Stunnings.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Here we are going to see some significant change to
how the state funds public education. And like school funding,
there are other seemingly intractable issues and challenges that have
plagued our city for decades. And here, once again, you
are going big and we are being bold. The English
Station power Plant, United Illuminating has shamefully left this abandoned

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site as.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
A delayed asthmach site.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Examinated eyesore in our community for over thirty years, Not anymore.
We're going to transform this eight point six acre waterfront
site into one of our city's premier public parks with
a public pool and athletic courts and fields, and make
it a recreational destination for the surrounding neighborhoods and our
entire city.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
How do you do it? How did it? Within the
confines of a minute?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
He goes, and yet again the state budget completely neglects
New Haven schools and the New Haven student suffers. This
has been going on since twenty thirteen. We're underfunded and understaffed.
We're opening a water park in New Haven. It's going

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to cost twenty five million dollars to start.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
How do you? How do you? How does he miss?
Where's the disconnect? Are those funds a lot?

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Do they have to go to a contaminated hazmat site?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Do you have to take that on tackle that project? No,
you do not have to at all.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
It will also serve as a catalyst for new investment
in new housing in the surrounding area, and together we
will chart a new future for the Mill River district.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
I don't even know what to make of it attract
more to a city that you're just sixty seconds earlier
saying education is subpar. Schools are important. The mold in
the schools. Never mind the air the kids are breathing
in in the schools that they're the hallowed halls they
walk down. But now you want them breathing in the

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air where firefighters were instructed not to go for decades
due to contamination. And it has been I don't know,
you got it. I don't get how somebody just didn't say, oh,
let me see your speech before you. Well, that's good,
that's powerful you okay, Yeah, so you don't want to
go from the governor has screwed us and our schools

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are completely underfunded to we're reopening Action Park downtown