We want to encourage local elected officials to address the return of intentionally loud street noise in our neighborhoods. Specifically, we are asking endorsement of the following Resolution, to be presented at the next Fair Haven Community Management Team meeting, May 6, for their referral to the Board of Alders. We also recommend other CMTs to consider similar resolutions.

Resolution to be forwarded to the CMT.

WHEREAS, we recognize that intentionally loud noise is a violation of the City’s Code of Ordinances, a detriment to the quality of civic life and a threat to citizens’ health, we, the Board of Alders resolve that the City Administration shall seek to abate such noise with a well-designed, carefully articulated, and publicly promoted campaign and staff to be adequately funded as a part of the City’s share of the American Rescue Plan, specifically in connection with Mayor Elicker’s “Clean and Safe” ($1.5M) and “Safe Summer” ($2.M) initiatives.

Specifically, such an effort should

• Develop City-wide awareness of this City-wide problem – and City-wide commitment to curbing it –through a well-designed and well-executed public relations campaign.
• Encourage and ensure the support of NHPD.
• Establish a system of unadvertised and randomly-chosen noise checkpoints to be conducted regularly by the NHPD.
• Collect data regularly to measure the effectiveness of the checkpoint program. Such data-collection should include anecdotal responses from the neighborhoods.
• Regularly publish the results of checkpoint activity through reports to the Board of Alders and the neighborhood CMTs.
• Develop, train, and equip a small group of City employees and citizens as a Noise-Control Patrol (NCP). Some members could and probably should be New Haven teens, whose training and experience could provide a form of neighborhood-level modeling.
• Support the actions of the NCP with a graduated system of official notices, warnings, and fines or other penalties as allowed by the Code.