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By Kate [email protected] @HartmanRegister on Twitter

TorringTon >> After living next door to a dilapidated house for a quar-ter of a century, Victor Grossetti, Jr., has all but given up hope of real change with blight in Torrington.

His home, located at 136 High St., was purchased by his father Victor Grossetti, Sr. in June 1963. After his mother passed away in 2001, Gros-setti, Sr. signed the house over to his son and daughter. The house next door, at 126-128 High St., has been an eyesore and a cause of problems for the Grossettis since the 1980s.

As Grossetti remembers it, the property owner, Dick Cantwell, picked up and left the house in 1985. The house has been sitting vacant since that time and until recently, all of the furniture was left aban-doned inside. About three years ago, Cantwell’s son-in-law came to do some cleaning. According to Grossetti, he moved the sofas out onto the porch. He quit working half way through and left the fur-niture outside.

“He does nothing, that I can tell, to maintain the property,” Gros-setti said of Cantwell. “It’s all done by the neighbor on the other side – mowing the grass and shoveling the front sidewalk - but in terms of upkeep of the property, there’s nothing going on. The house has fallen into complete disrepair. It’s been uninhabited for a quarter of a century. The gas is turned off. The power is turned off. The water is turned off.”

Cantwell was not immediately available to comment on Grosset-ti’s allegations or this story.

The duplex property is over-grown. Vines have crawled up the front porch so far that half the house is obstructed from view. The right side of the porch roof is propped up by a brace. Appliances including a bathroom sink and toi-

let tank sit behind the house, just outside of a broken door that the glass has been smashed out of. Grossetti said there have been problems with vermin and other animals stemming from the neigh-boring property. About five years ago, there was a dead opossum on the front lawn. That was the last time he got in touch with Kim Barb-

ieri, inland wetlands commissioner. The two have worked together to

get compliance from Cantwell over the years. According to Barbieri, the property is much better today than it used to be.

Cantwell owns a large garage be-hind his house, which he fills with automobiles and car parts, said Grossetti. The open lot directly

behind Grossetti’s house is also owned by Cantwell, and at one time it was completely filled with junk including unregistered motor ve-hicles and tires.

“It used to be worse, there were rusting vehicles. Who knows what kind of environmental damage the battery acid and all that kind of stuff has done,” said Grossetti.

Grossetti said that he has planted trees and shrubbery along his property line to shield his fam-ily’s view of their neighbor. He said he had wanted to put up a fence, but the cost and necessity of a zoning variance for a very tall fence dis-suaded him.

In partnership with Barbieri and the planning and zoning office, Grossetti was able to take Cantwell to Litchfield Superior Court. The judge issued fines if Cantwell did not comply.

“We have been able to get him to clean up,” said Barbieri.

Cantwell removed the junk on his property in 2002. Since then, the planning and zoning depart-ment hasn’t had anything else, from a zoning perspective, to le-verage against Cantwell to get him to maintain his property, said Bar-bieri. More frustrating is the fact that 126-128 High St. doesn’t qual-ify as a blighted property.

“As far as blight, he’s marginally OK,” said Barbieri. “There is some peeling paint but there are no holes. Nothing is falling down. He is meet-ing the minimum letter of the law.”

The High Street property is an example of what city officials have identified as the complexity of blight — all properties that are unappeal-

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the property at 126-128 High st. in torrington is owned by Dick Cantwell and has been a problem for neighbors for years.

There aren’t enough prison cells in the federal Bureau of Prisons for all the police officers who have pushed a detainee, and then lied about it in a police report. So it’s hard for me to fathom why fed-eral officials singled out Meriden’s Evan Cossette for prosecution. But there he was, convicted of shoving a drunken prisoner and then lying. Why prosecute this case and ig-nore so many more?

I put kids through college suing police officers, typically for using unreasonable force. In one case, witnesses saw a cop slam a kid in the head with a police baton as the kid sat handcuffed on the street. In another case, guards smacked a prisoner around after a failed escape attempt. A female officer was once found liable for slapping a young woman in the face. And then there was the case in which a cop used his nightstick to clob-ber a drunken fellow who mocked him. Juries awarded significant money damages in these cases, and many more.

In none of these cases did law enforcement officers lose their jobs, much less face prison. In all of these cases, the officers’ em-ployers, and not the cops them-selves, paid the money damages. In other words, taxpayers pro-vided what amounted to insur-ance for these cops. I didn’t see any federal prosecutors chest-thumping for justice then.

Police liability for the use of ex-cessive force is reflected in a com-

plex body of law. Ordinary citizens can

sue a police officer for vio-lating their right to be free from unreasonable force, a right rooted in the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Such a legal action is brought under a provision of a Civil War

era federal law known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, passed during the darker hours of Reconstruction when it was clear that local South-ern courtrooms might remain closed to people of color.

It wasn’t until the mid-twenti-eth century that this act was used as a means of suing police officers. Thirteen Chicago cops burst into the home of Monroe family. The family was made to stand by as of-ficers ransacked their home. Mr. Monroe was taken the police sta-tion and held incommunicado for two days while he was questioned about a murder. The police of-ficers did not have a warrant to enter the home, or lawful author-ity to take Mr. Monroe against his will to the police station.

No charges were ever lodged against Mr. Monroe, but he did sue, relying upon the little used provision of federal law that per-mits a person to sue a “state ac-tor” for violating federal rights “under color of law.” Chicago’s lawyer argued the men had acted outside the scope of their author-ity as lawmen, and hence, were not state actors.

In Monroe v. Pape, the Su-preme Court created a legal de-

vice that made it possible to sue police officers for money damages for the on-the-job misconduct. The court held that when officers are sued in their “individual capaci-ties,” they could be forced to pay money damages. Suing them in their “official capacities” might, after all, violate the immunity that police officers typically enjoy as agents of their respective sover-eigns. (Remind me sometime to devote a column to the outrage of sovereign and municipal immu-nity.)

In theory, successful indi-vidual capacity suits resulted in judgments the officers, and not their employers, should pay. But in some states, such as Connecti-cut, state and local governments typically pay the damages, a pro-cess known as indemnification. The thinking goes something like this: If we require police officers to pay out of their own pocket for the mistakes they make on the job, they might become too timid in the performance of their duties. Indemnification was sound so-cial policy as a means of assuring the police weren’t always looking over their shoulders when mak-ing split-second decisions about whether to use force. Timid cops too often end up dead.

I’m not sure how the federal government’s decision to pros-ecute garden variety claims of police misconduct is going to make the streets any safer. State and municipal governments will go ahead and pay compensatory damages awards under indemni-fication agreements. But the fed-

eral government will send a cop to prison for the same conduct. If ever you wanted an illustration of just how dysfunctional federalism can be – parallel state and federal government enforcing laws over the same people at the same time – the Cossette case provides one.

A routine jury instruction given in every case involving al-legations of police use of unrea-sonable force goes something like this: Not every push, pull or shove, even if is seems unnecessary in the calm of a judge’s chambers, vi-olates the Fourth Amendment. Po-lice officers are expected to make instantaneous decisions about how much force they must use to respond to a perceived or actual threat. We train officers in the use of force. Jurors are reminded that they must evaluate an officer’s de-cision based not on 20/20 hind-sight, but from the perspective of an officer on the scene.

When money damages are at stake, the federal judiciary goes out of its way to protect police of-ficers from the consequences of their mistakes. A legal doctrine known as qualified immunity has given judges the power to make sure most police misconduct cases never get to a jury. This judicially created device permits judges to toss all but the most egregious cases.

Evan Cossette didn’t get the benefit of the doubt in a federal courtroom. He was hauled into court and called a criminal by fed-eral prosecutors. He now faces imprisonment. I’ve watched the videotape in his and looked at the

police reports. I can name plenty of cops who are walking beats who’ve been accused of similar or worse.

Folks sometimes accuse me of being a cop-hater because I spent a decade or so suing police offi-cers for money back before judges barred the courthouse doors by generous application of qualified immunity. Today, I represent a lot of cops, sometimes against fed-eral prosecutors, but most often against accusations made by other officers. I’ve learned something representing lawmen: They are vi-cious when it comes to how they treat one another. The only pro-fessional group that rivals cops in pettiness and rancorous litiga-tion against colleagues are school teachers.

I don’t hate cops. They’ve a tough, often impossible job to do. They have to keep the peace while the rest of us struggle with the growing gap between the rheto-ric of the American dream and its failed promise. Just how federal prosecutors decided it was open season on local lawmen is a story that remains to be told.

Plenty of local cops were shak-ing their heads this week. Evan Cossette, a federal felon? Prison bound? Who’s next? they’re won-dering. Don’t be surprised if the streets seem a little less safe for awhile. My hunch is cops will be playing it safe, lest an ambitious federal prosecutor comes scalp-hunting.

Norm Pattis blogs at pattisblog.com on law-related and social issues.

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BEIJING >> Anti-doping experts re-ported progress Thursday in the search for a reliable test for gene doping, although they still don’t know when it will be ready for use in competition.

IOC medical commission chair-man Arne Ljungqvist said a test would be put into use at the Olym-pics and other events as soon as a method is proven reliable — re-gardless of whether hard evidence shows athletes are manipulat-ing their genes to improve perfor-mance.

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BOSTON >> Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has been released from the hospital after prostate surgery and says he is "raring to go."

The 71-year-old Menino says in a video that he is holding meet-ings, and he thanks people for their cards, phone calls and well-wishes.

He was released from Brigham and Women's Hospital on Thurs-day. He is recuperating at an eas-ily accessible city-owned mansion instead of his more distant home.

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By Rachel [email protected] @rachelchinapen on Twitter

NEw HAVEN >> Police quickly ar-rested a suspect after a woman died following a fire early Monday.

Officers were called to 161 Whal-ley Ave. at 1:51 a.m. to investigate a reported domestic crime, police spokesman Officer David Hartman said in a statement. Upon arrival, officers found the building to be filled with smoke and they radioed dispatchers to bring in the Fire De-partment.

The fire was on the third floor and was extinguished. The body of Georgette Alston, 31, was found on the third floor, police said.

“Detectives are investigating the incident as a probable homicide,” Hartman said in the release.

Frank Moore, 35, who lived with Alston, was arrested and charged with first-degree assault, Hartman

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LONDON >> Stock markets rose on Friday after a U.S. jobs report sug-gested the Federal Reserve is likely to keep its stimulus program going for now.

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On balance, the report seems to suggest the U.S. economy is still recovering, but slowly enough for the Fed to not rein in its monetary stimulus program just yet. The pro-gram, which increases the amount

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City OKs sale to Yale despite protestsGregory Williams, with the bullhorn, of the Yale Divinity School addresses protesters, including Jhon Molina of New Haven, outside City Hall.

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NEW HAVEN — James Vande Velde, the only person evernamed as being in the “pool ofsuspects” in the 1998 slaying of

Yale Univeristy student SuzanneJovin, has settled his lawsuitagainst Yale and the city.“I am pleased to announcethat my legal action againstsenior officers of Yale Univer-sity and the city of New Havenfor having been wrongly labeled

a suspect in the unsolved 1998Suzanne Jovin murder inves-tigation is officially over,” Vande Velde said Monday in a state-ment emailed by attorney DavidT. Grudberg.“I thankMagistrate JudgeWil-liam I. Garfinkel, who served as

mediator,” Van de Velde said inthe statement.Details of the agreement werenot released, but Grudberg saidit was a monetary settlement.“I intendnow tomove forward

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WEST HAVEN — Lastyear, the University ofNew Haven’s miniature,high-mileage car suf-fered a broken shell,shifted engine andslipped gear chainafter zooming up anacademic quad sidewalk— nothing a few engineerscouldn’t fix.Now, the 95-pound tor-pedo-shaped vehicle that

gets 800 to 1,200 miles tothe gallon is competition-ready and headedWednes-day to Michigan for aninternational fuel economycontest Friday.The royal blue contrap-tion was back onthe academic quadoutside Maxcy HallMonday morning fora test drive with the

mechanical engineeringstudents and professorswho built it, this time suc-cessfully taking two laps,even in rainy conditions.

The group has racedtwice before at the compe-tition, but feels better pre-pared this year.

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DERBY— A body foundSunday under a traintrestle near the Greenwaywas identified Monday asGordon Maloney, 44, acity man who was report-ed missing by his familytwo weeks ago.The office of the chiefmedical examiner is con-

d u c t -i n g a na u t o p s yto deter-mine thecause ofd e a t h .He waslast seenMay 19and wasrepor ted

missing May 22.Results of the autopsywill be available later thisweek.Police are treating thiscase as an untimely death,and said in a press releasethere was no evidence tosuggest foul play.JoAnn Maloney ofSouthington, GordonMaloney’s niece, said heruncle’s friends notifiedfamily members of hisdisappearance when theyhad not seen him for sev-eral days.“You would see him allthe time. You could drivethrough town and seehim. He would always bearound,” she said.Maloney’s body wasfound Saturday by twopeople walking. Theyspotted someone on theground, but thought theperson was sleeping.On Sunday , t h e yreturned and noticed theman was still there, andthey called police.

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NEW HAVEN— Police quicklyarrested a suspect after a womanwas found dead following a fireearly Monday.Officers were called to 161Whalley Ave. at 1:51 a.m. to

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radioed dispatchers to send theFire Department.The fire was on the third floorand was extinguished. The bodyof Georgette Alston, 31, wasfound on the third floor, policesaid.

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versity for $3 million.The sale grants Yale perma-nentownershipoverHighStreetbetween Elm and Grove streetsand Wall Street between Col-lege and York streets — areasYale has leased since 1990.But the 21-to-8 vote did notcome without a fight from sev-eral aldermen and dozens of

residents who protested in frontof City Hall and in the back ofthe aldermanic chambers.“What we’re doing is sayingto the 1 percent — Yale — surewe’ll sell you this for $3 mil-lion,” said Henry Lowendorfoutside City Hall. “But after

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By Randall [email protected] @rbeachnhr on Twitter

NEw HAVEN >> James Van de Velde, the only person ever named as be-ing in the “pool of suspects” in the 1998 slaying of Yale Univeristy student Suzanne Jovin, has set-tled his lawsuit against Yale and

the city.“I am pleased to announce that

my legal action against senior of-ficers of Yale University and the city of New Haven for having been wrongly labeled a suspect in the un-solved 1998 Suzanne Jovin murder investigation is officially over,” Van de Velde said Monday in a state-ment emailed by attorney David T.

Grudberg.“I thank Magistrate Judge Wil-

liam I. Garfinkel, who served as mediator,” Van de Velde said in the statement.

Details of the agreement were not released, but Grudberg said it was a monetary settlement.

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2001: A federal lawsuit was filed against Melvin Wearing, who was police chief at the time of the murder, and four members of the Police Department.2003: Another lawsuit was filed against Yale officials who were involved in deciding what to do about van de velde.

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NEW HAVEN — James Vande Velde, the only person evernamed as being in the “pool ofsuspects” in the 1998 slaying of

Yale Univeristy student SuzanneJovin, has settled his lawsuitagainst Yale and the city.“I am pleased to announcethat my legal action againstsenior officers of Yale Univer-sity and the city of New Havenfor having been wrongly labeled

a suspect in the unsolved 1998Suzanne Jovin murder inves-tigation is officially over,” Vande Velde said Monday in a state-ment emailed by attorney DavidT. Grudberg.“I thankMagistrate JudgeWil-liam I. Garfinkel, who served as

mediator,” Van de Velde said inthe statement.Details of the agreement werenot released, but Grudberg saidit was a monetary settlement.“I intendnow tomove forward

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UNH high-mileage car back in the raceBy Susan Misur

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WEST HAVEN — Lastyear, the University ofNew Haven’s miniature,high-mileage car suf-fered a broken shell,shifted engine andslipped gear chainafter zooming up anacademic quad sidewalk— nothing a few engineerscouldn’t fix.Now, the 95-pound tor-pedo-shaped vehicle that

gets 800 to 1,200 miles tothe gallon is competition-ready and headedWednes-day to Michigan for aninternational fuel economycontest Friday.The royal blue contrap-tion was back onthe academic quadoutside Maxcy HallMonday morning fora test drive with the

mechanical engineeringstudents and professorswho built it, this time suc-cessfully taking two laps,even in rainy conditions.

The group has racedtwice before at the compe-tition, but feels better pre-pared this year.

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Recent University of New Haven graduates Daniel Bennett, left,and Joseph Olenick fill the fuel tank on the high-mileage car builtby the engineering department at UNH.

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DERBY— A body foundSunday under a traintrestle near the Greenwaywas identified Monday asGordon Maloney, 44, acity man who was report-ed missing by his familytwo weeks ago.The office of the chiefmedical examiner is con-

d u c t -i n g a na u t o p s yto deter-mine thecause ofd e a t h .He waslast seenMay 19and wasrepor ted

missing May 22.Results of the autopsywill be available later thisweek.Police are treating thiscase as an untimely death,and said in a press releasethere was no evidence tosuggest foul play.JoAnn Maloney ofSouthington, GordonMaloney’s niece, said heruncle’s friends notifiedfamily members of hisdisappearance when theyhad not seen him for sev-eral days.“You would see him allthe time. You could drivethrough town and seehim. He would always bearound,” she said.Maloney’s body wasfound Saturday by twopeople walking. Theyspotted someone on theground, but thought theperson was sleeping.On Sunday , t h e yreturned and noticed theman was still there, andthey called police.

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NEW HAVEN— Police quicklyarrested a suspect after a womanwas found dead following a fireearly Monday.Officers were called to 161Whalley Ave. at 1:51 a.m. to

investigate areported domes-tic crime, polices p o k e s m a nOfficer DavidHartman saidin a statement.Upon arrival,officers foundthe building tobe filled withsmoke and they

radioed dispatchers to send theFire Department.The fire was on the third floorand was extinguished. The bodyof Georgette Alston, 31, wasfound on the third floor, policesaid.

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NEW HAVEN — Despiteprotests inside and outside ofCity Hall Monday night, theBoard of Aldermen approvedthe sale of sections of Highand Wall streets to Yale Uni-

versity for $3 million.The sale grants Yale perma-nentownershipoverHighStreetbetween Elm and Grove streetsand Wall Street between Col-lege and York streets — areasYale has leased since 1990.But the 21-to-8 vote did notcome without a fight from sev-eral aldermen and dozens of

residents who protested in frontof City Hall and in the back ofthe aldermanic chambers.“What we’re doing is sayingto the 1 percent — Yale — surewe’ll sell you this for $3 mil-lion,” said Henry Lowendorfoutside City Hall. “But after

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to support the project.With approval of the proj-

ect Tuesday, the town has until June 30 to complete its

application which must be submitted to the state De-partment of Education by month’s end.

The state will spend much of the next year reviewing the project.

If the state approves the project, it will reimburse the

town for 52 percent of the cost of renovating the school as new.

A regional accreditation agency had concluded the existing science laboratories were inadequate.

That was six years ago.However, that ruling and a

threat to deny the school ac-creditation set in motion the chain of events that led to the vote Tuesday and approval of the project.

Actual construction is not expected to start until late next year and not be finished until the Spring of 2017.

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goal of a speedy graduation.“I was focused on a boy-

friend at the time, and going out with my friends,” said Fogarty. “I thought I was an adult, but far from it.”

But Fogarty found the chutzpah to set aside in-stant gratification in favor of longer-term goals.

“Instead of focusing on where I was going that night, I started job-hunting every day after school,” said Fogarty.

“I started balancing a schedule of school, work and home.”

“You are the only one who can say what your future will hold,” Fogarty told her classmates and their fami-lies and friends.

Mayor Daniel Drew con-gratulated the graduates.

“You get one life,” said Drew, “and in that life you have a lot of opportuni-

ties to do good things—you seized that opportunity.”

“You’re going to change the world,” said the mayor. “You’re setting an example for all the children in this auditorium looking up to you.”

Bridget Miller, a 35-year-old new graduate who be-gan the program in Oc-tober, said she intends to eventually open up her own business.

“In the 11th grade I ended up in the bar and restau-rant industry,” she said, and since then, she’s worked in hospitality “everywhere from Tokyo to here.”

Miller’s next step is to study business at Middle-sex Community College on a scholarship that she earned through her studies at Adult Ed.

“I originally came for the GED,” said Miller, “and I was offered the scholarship, so I did everything that I had to do to go to Middle-sex.”

She said that, although she likes working in her cur-rent industry, “What I came to find is, without the cre-dentials, you can’t go much further. I’d like to know the behind-the-scenes business so I can branch out.”

Miller said her instruc-tors were instrumental in augmenting her ambitions.

“The pushed me to go be-yond the GED and go for the scholarship,” said Miller. “All the instructors there really push the students to go to the next step, and I re-ally appreciate that.”

The Adult Ed organizers have also set up an Even Start Family Learning Pro-gram, wherein students can bring children aged 3 and under with them for day-care as the students take classes.

Ameia Bond, a 26-year-old graduate, brought her 1-and-a-half-year-old daughter with her as she studied.

“I’ve been here off-and-

on since 2005,” said Bond, who withdrew from Middle-town public schools during the 2003-04 school year.

At Adult Ed she studied children’s literature, envi-ronmental science, creative writing, physics, civics and math on her way to earning her credit diploma.

Now, Bond has enrolled in Middlesex Community College as well, and also intends to study business. “I’m trying to open my own restaurant,” said Bond.

“I have a lot of chefs in my family,” said Bond. “And I love to cook.”

“My kids were my moti-vation, they are my motiva-tion,” said Bond, who also has 7- and 4-year-old boys.

She said that, without the Even Start program, she wouldn’t have had the proper childcare to enable her to finish her studies.

Adult Ed graduates stu-dents with three different credentials.

This year, 42 students

earned a Middletown Adult High School Credit Di-ploma and another 11 re-ceived Middletown Adult High School External Diplo-mas—both conferred by the city’s board of education.

The remaining 32 gradu-ates opted for the state-con-ferred GED program.

The program is avail-able throughout Middlesex County plus in Rocky Hill.

“We like to think we’re in the business of changing people’s lives,” said Susan Ladny, who does outreach for Adult Ed. “We offer a second chance to be suc-cessful.”

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actly what they wanted … everybody walked away with a little bit of something that they were looking for.”

During the council’s dis-cussion, Majority Leader Thomas Serra encouraged the council to vote in favor of the contract.

“All of this is right in the arena of fairness,” said Serra.

He said that wage in-creases were in line with what arbitration but, more importantly, the layoff and longevity adjustments made the agreement a de-cent trade.

“It’s fair for Teamsters and taxpayers,” said Serra.

Counci lma n G era ld Daley concurred with Serra.

“I think that it’s a fair settlement absent an egre-gious problem or cost be-yond what the city can bear,” said Daley. “Arbitra-tion is a very costly roll of the dice.”

Daley and Serra both stressed the fact that the salaries as laid out in the tentative contract had al-ready been accounted for in the recently passed city budget.

Council members Grady Faulkner and Mary Barto-lotta said the new deal was a good early move in terms of wresting control away from the teamsters and giv-ing it back to the city.

“We begin to go down the road of removing some things out of these con-tracts that shouldn’t be in them,” said Faulkner.

He said that paying lon-gevity stipends for union members who stay on the payroll, and also paying union members to leave city

employment, “is ridiculous to me.”

Getting rid of the no-lay-off clause “puts some con-trol back into the city,” said Bartolotta.

Minority Leader Philip Pessina joined in support-ing the contract, but said that “it sets the bar high” for the mayor and his ap-pointees.

Under the new contract, the mayor will face fewer restrictions when appoint-ing seven directors plus the city clerk.

Pessina added that arbi-tration “is a nightmare. Ev-erything opens up, nothing is protected.”

Councilwoman Linda Salafia said throwing ev-erything back on the ta-ble would be a good thing, and that the contract itself “would be a nightmare to administer” based on how many pay scales are out-lined in it.

“The minutiae of the con-tract itself is difficult,” said Salafia.

Councilman Ron Klat-tenberg also spoke in fa-vor of arbitration, citing concerns on whether cer-tain city managers should be union members, as well as a fluctuating Consumer Price Index that, given re-cent trends, could have been used to argue for lower wage increases.

Serra responded that, at the time of negotiations, the CPI was such that the con-tracted hikes made sense, and that the CPI was a “snapshot in time” and that retroactive adjustments were unreasonable.

The measure passed with a vote of 8-3; coun-cil members Hope Kasper, Linda Salaf ia and Ron Klattenberg opposed the contract and Todd Birch was absent from the meet-ing.

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By Luther [email protected] @LutherTurmelle on Twitter

NEW HAVEN >> Josue Rodriguez had been unemployed for four months and sent out more than 100 re-sumes before his pastor passed his resume to the New Haven Works program as it was launch-ing a pilot program in March.

Now, the Newhallville resi-dent has a temporary position with Yale University’s School of Forestry and he credits New Ha-ven Works, which held its official launch Wednesday at its Whitney Avenue headquarters.

“I had applied to Yale for a number of jobs during the time that I was unemployed, but I wasn’t able to get an interview,” Rodriguez said. “I doubt I would have gotten the job I have now if I hadn’t gotten the interview.

They don’t guarantee you’re going to get a job, but getting an interview gives you an opportu-nity to impress an employer with what you know and what you can do.”

New Haven Works is a non-profit that seeks to match jo-bready workers who live in the city with potential employers.

It is a joint effort of the Board of Aldermen, some of New Hav-en’s largest employers and labor organizations.

“This is one way you deal with

urban poverty,” said Mary Reyn-olds, director of the program.

Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy hailed the launch of the program as a way to restore full economic vitality to the city.

“This is going to be great be-cause it is promoting cooperation in tough economic times,” Malloy said.

DeStefano agreed, saying that the program is an attempt to build upon the city’s existing eco-nomic successes.

“We’ve been both lucky and smart in this city,” he said. “And now with this joint effort, we will connect New Haven people with New Haven jobs.”

Reynolds is on leave from Lo-cal 34 of the Federation of Univer-sity Employees at Yale to run the program.

The goal of New Haven Works is to place at least 1,000 people in regular, full-time jobs over the next four years.

“People don’t graduate from the program,” Reynolds said.

“We stay with them every step of the way until they get the job they want.

Not every participant in New Haven Works is unemployed, she said. Some are working in jobs that they are overqualified for, but are looking to improve their employment situation.

The program is funded by a va-riety of sources, including Yale, the city and UIL Holdings.

New Haven Works has already secured placements with those major employers for workers like Rodriguez, who participated in pilot programs in March in ad-vance of the launch.

Reynolds said New Haven Works is approaching other ma-jor city employers including Assa Abloy and the Regional Water Authority in an effort to secure placement agreements.

The program is funded by a va-riety of sources, including Yale, the city and UIL Holdings.

New Haven Works has already secured placements with those major employers for workers like Rodriguez, who participated in pilot programs in March in ad-vance of the launch.

Reynolds said New Haven Works is approaching other ma-jor city employers including Assa Abloy and the Regional Water Authority in an effort to secure placement agreements.

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LOCALXerox Corp. buysLearnSomethingNORWALK— Xerox is

buying online educa-tional services providerLearnSomething,expanding what it canoffer to the food, drugand health care indus-tries.Financial terms were

not disclosed.Xerox Corp. is a busi-

ness services providerand copier company.Chief Operating OfficerConnie Harvey said in astatement Wednesdaythat the acquisitionbuilds on its ability toprovider customer careservices to the pharma-ceutical, biotech andhealthcare industries.Privately held Learn-

Something Inc. is basedin Tallahassee, Fla. Thecompany delivers itseducational programsand other services to 85percent of U.S. retailpharmacy chains. Foodand drug retailers use itsonline services to com-plete regulatory compli-ance courses.After the deal closes,

LearnSomething will becalled LearnSomething,A Xerox Company. Pres-ident and CEO SteveRoden will remain in hisposts.

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Chamber holdsmeeting June 13CLINTON— The

Chamber of Commercewill hold its annualbreakfast meeting at 8a.m. June 13 in theGreen Room at AndrewsMemorial Town Hall. Inaddition to the shortbusiness portion, thisyear’s winners of theRobert DiBona Scholar-ships will be acknowl-edged.The budget will be

presented for approvaland the officers will benominated.Guest speakers

include First SelectmanWilliam Fritz and a pan-el of Cselectmen whowill present a state-of-the-community address.State Rep. Tom Vicinoand state Sen. Art Lin-ares are also expected toattend. Cost for thebreakfast is $5.Walk-ins are wel-

come. Registration canbe made by calling the-chamber at 860-669-3889 or [email protected].

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“Your future looks dark andcloudy. Maybe you shouldbecome a weatherman.”

Growth in productivity slowsAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — U.S. workerproductivity grewamodest amountfrom January through March afterhaving declined in the previousquarter. Weak productivity growthcould boost hiring if consumers andbusinesses spendmore.Productivity rose at a seasonally

adjusted annual rate of 0.5 per-cent in the first quarter, following

a 1.7 percent decline in the Octo-ber to December period, the LaborDepartment said Wednesday.The first quarter performance

was revised down slightly froman initial estimate of a 0.7 percentfirst quarter increase. The revisionreflected the fact that the govern-ment lowered its estimate of over-all economic output in the firstquarter from a rate of 2.5 percentdown to 2.4 percent. Productivity

is the amount of output per hourof work.Labor costs actually fell in the

January to March quarter, drop-ping at an annual rate of 4.3 per-cent after having surged at an 11.8percent rate in the fourth quarter.The trend in productivity has

been fairly weak in recent years.For all of 2012, productivity rosejust 0.7 percent, after an evensmaller 0.6 percent rise in 2011.Those gains were less than half

the average growth in 2009 and2010, shortly after many compa-nies laid off workers to cut costs

during the Great Recession. Andit’s below the long-run trend of2.2 percent annual growth in pro-ductivity dating back to 1947.With productivity growth slow,

companies might have to addworkers if demand for their prod-ucts continue to grow.The modest rise in labor costs

means wages are not growing fastenough to spur concerns aboutinflation.The Federal Reserve closely

monitors productivity and laborcosts for any signs that inflationcould pick up.

Weak numbers may boost hiring

ADP:U.S. adds135G jobsin May

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A privatesurvey shows U.S. businessesadded just 135,000 jobs in May,the second straight month ofweak gains.Payroll provider ADP said

Wednesday that May’s gainwas above April’s revised totalof 113,000. But it’s much lowerthan the gains ADP reportedover winter, which averagedmore than 200,000 a month fromNovember through February.Mark Zandi, chief economist

at Moody’s Analytics, blamedthe slowdown on higher taxesand steep government spendingcuts enacted this year.The ADP survey is derived

from payroll data and tracksprivate employment. It hasdiverged at times from the gov-ernment’s more comprehensivemonthly jobs report, which willbe released Friday.In April, the government said

private employers added 176,000jobs,muchhigher than theADP’sestimate.Economists say the gap

between the ADP’s survey andthe government figures has nar-rowed since Moody’s Analyticsbegan compiling the numberseight months ago. Still, it hasdiffered from the Labor Depart-ment’s report by about 40,000 amonth since then.“The ADP survey has never

been themost reliable indicator,”Paul Ashworth, an economist atCapital Economics, said in a noteto clients.Economists forecast that the

government’s report will showemployers added 170,000 jobsin May, according to a survey byFactSet. The unemployment rateis expected to stay at a four-yearlow of 7.5 percent.Most economists said the ADP

report wouldn’t prompt themto change their forecasts. Zandiacknowledged that the ADP hasundershot the government’s fig-ure in recent months.The ADP report found that

manufacturing companies cut6,000 jobs last month. Construc-tion firms added only 5,000,below the previous month’s15,000 gain.Retail hiring has also been

weak, Zandi said, a sign thatconsumers could be spendingless because of the increase inSocial Security taxes.If the government report Fri-

day shows slower job growth,too, the Federal Reserve wouldbe less inclined to scale back itspace of bond buying, economistssaid. The Fed is purchasing about$85 billion in Treasury andmort-gage-backed bonds each monthin an effort keep interest rateslow.Economists forecast growth is

slowing to around a 2 percentannual pace in the April-Junequarter, down from 2.4 percentin the first three months of theyear.Consumers and businesses are

likely slowing their spendingbecause of the tax increases andspendingcuts.Andweakerglobalgrowth has reduced demand forU.S. exports, which has slowedactivity at U.S. factories.

Cheerios standing by decision to run biracial adAssociated Press

NEW YORK — A mom sits ather kitchen table when her gradeschooler saunters up with a bigbox of Cheerios. “Mom,” says thegirl. “Dad told me Cheerios is goodfor your heart. Is that true?”Cut to dad waking from a nap on

the living room couch with a pileof Cheerios on his chest (wherehis heart is) crunchily cascading tothe floor.The message is in line with the

company’s Heart Healthy cam-paign, except this 30-second adfeatures a black dad, white momand biracial child and producedenough vitriol on YouTube lastweek that Cheerios requested thecomments section be turned off.This week, the company is

standing by the fictitious family,which reflects a black-white racialmix uncommon in commercialstoday, at a time when interracial

and interethnic couples are on therise in real life, according to 2010U.S. Census data, brand strategistsand marketing consultants.Camille Gibson, vice president

of marketing for Cheerios, said it’sthe first time the ad campaign thatfocuses on family moments hasfeatured an interracial couple.“We felt like we were reflecting

an American family,” Gibson said.As a large company, Minneapo-

lis-based General Mills is used togetting some degree of negativefeedback and wasn’t surprised bythe comments on YouTube, shesaid, but it was the first time thecompany requested the site turnthe comments section off becauseof the vitriol.The national ad will continue

running as scheduled for severalmore months and Cheerios isn’tplanning any changes, Gibsonsaid. She declined to say whetherthe campaign would feature inter-

racial ads going forward.With millions of ad dollars at

stake, how seriously do big com-panies such as Cheerios take rac-ist backlashes? Very, said AllenAdamson, managing director of thebranding firm Landor Associates.“Advertisers for many years

always took the safe route, whichwas to try to ruffle no feathers andin doing so became less and lessauthentic and real,” he said. “Tosucceed today, big brands likeCheerios need to be in touch withwhat’s authentic and true aboutAmerican families.”Those families include married

couples of different races and eth-nicities who grew by 28 percentin the decade between 2000 and2010, from 7 percent to 10 percent,Census data shows.“Thetraditionalapproachdepict-

ing the old ‘Leave it to Beaver’ fam-ily, while offending no one, is notvery realistic,” Adamson said.

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@LutherTurmelle on Twitter

NEW HAVEN — Josue Rodri-guez had been unemployed forfour months and sent out morethan 100 resumes before hispastor passed his resume to theNewHavenWorks program as itwas launching a pilot programin March.Now, the Newhallville resi-

dent has a temporary positionwith Yale University’s Schoolof Forestry and he credits NewHaven Works, which held itsofficial launch Wednesday at itsWhitney Avenue headquarters.“I had applied to Yale for a

number of jobs during the timethat I was unemployed, but Iwasn’t able to get an interview,”Rodriguez said. “I doubt I wouldhave gotten the job I have nowif I hadn’t gotten the interview.They don’t guarantee you’regoing to get a job, but getting aninterview gives you an oppor-tunity to impress an employerwith what you know and what

you can do.”New Haven Works is a non-

profit that seeks to match job-ready workers who live in thecity with potential employers.It is a joint effort of the Boardof Aldermen, some of NewHaven’s largest employers andlabor organizations.“This is oneway you dealwith

urban poverty,” saidMary Reyn-olds, director of the program.Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and

Gov.Dannel P.Malloy hailed thelaunch of the program as a wayto restore full economic vitalityto the city. “This is going to begreat because it is promotingcooperation in tough economictimes,” Malloy said.DeStefano agreed, saying

that the program is an attemptto build upon the city’s existingeconomic successes.“We’ve been both lucky and

smart in this city,” he said. “Andnow with this joint effort, wewill connect New Haven peoplewith New Haven jobs.”Reynolds is on leave from

Local 34 of the Federation of Uni-

versity Employees at Yale to runthe program. The goal of NewHaven Works is to place at least1,000 people in regular, full-timejobs over the next four years.“People don’t graduate from

the program,” Reynolds said.“We stay with them every stepof the way until they get the jobthey want.Not every participant in New

Haven Works is unemployed,she said. Some are working injobs that they are overqualifiedfor, but are looking to improvetheir employment situation.The program is funded by a

variety of sources, includingYale, the city and UIL Holdings.New Haven Works has alreadysecured placements with thosemajor employers for workerslike Rodriguez, who participat-ed in pilot programs in March inadvance of the launch.Reynolds said New Haven

Works is approaching othermajor city employers includingAssa Abloy and the RegionalWater Authority in an effort tosecure placement agreements.

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NewHavenWorks helps in job search

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New Haven Works graduate Osikhena Awudu, left, watches as, from left, New Haven Works member Angela Moore,Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Yale University President-Elect Peter Salovey and New HavenWorks volunteer Kamilia Norfleetcut the ceremonial ribbon at the grand opening at 205 Whitney Ave. in New Haven Wednesday.

“people don’t graduate from the program. We stay with them every step of the way until they get the job they want.”— Mary Reynolds, director of New Haven Works

HoNG KoNG >> Asian casino ty-coon Stanley Ho’s transport company is buying a stake in a budget airline that Qantas and China Eastern Airlines are set-ting up in Hong Kong, the com-panies said Thursday.

Ho’s Shun Tak Holdings Ltd. said Thursday it’s paying $66 million for a third of the new venture that will fly under the Jetstar brand.

Australia’s Qantas Air-ways and Shanghai-based China Eastern said in March last year that the $198 million venture would serve swelling numbers of Chinese travelers.

The venture was expected to start operating by mid-2013. But it has faced delays as it seeks regulatory approval.

Landing a local partner may help the venture secure that greenlight.

Hong Kong’s transport de-partment said earlier this week that it was reviewing its regime for designating local carriers and would freeze new approvals until the review is completed. It said businesses looking to start new. It said businesses looking to start new.

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Casino tycoon Ho buys stake in budget airline

BANGKoK >> Oil rose above $94 per barrel Thursday on the heels of a big drop in U.S. oil supplies, but analysts didn’t expect to see prices take off.

Benchmark oil for July deliv-ery was up 55 cents to $94.29 per barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mer-cantile Exchange. The contract rose 43 cents to close at $93.74 a barrel the day before.

The Energy Department on Wednesday said U.S. crude oil inventories shrank by 6.3 mil-lion barrels in the week ended May 31, thanks to a sharp drop in imports. Analysts expected a drop of 1 million barrels. Sep-arately, the American Petro-leum Institute said stockpiles shrank by 464,000 to 387.3 million barrels. Tighter sup-plies tend to push oil prices higher.

Still, oil prices were ex-pected to stay within a tight range for now, as supplies are ample and demand remains re-strained by a tepid global eco-nomic recovery.

“The market has been stuck in neutral for some time and it’s hard to see how any.”

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US supplies of crude drop

dETroiT >> Chrysler is recall-ing nearly 435,000 Jeep SUVs to fix air bag and transmission fluid leaks.

The automaker will recall more than 254,000 Patriots and Compasses from 2010 through 2012 in the U.S. to fix an air bag problem. It’s also is recalling more than 180,000 Jeep Wranglers from 2012 and 2013 for transmission fluid leaks.

In the Patriots and Com-passes, a software error could cause late deployment of the side air bags and seat-belt tightening mechanisms. For Wranglers with 3.6-liter V-6 engines, Chrysler says a power steering line can wear a hole in the transmission oil cooler line. The SUVs can leak fluid, dam-aging transmissions. Both re-calls start in July.

The recalls come just two days after Chrysler refused a government request to recall more than 2.7 million older-model Jeeps.

The recalls come just two days after Chrysler refused a government request to recall more than 2.7 million older-model Jeeps.

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Chrysler to recall nearly 435,000 SUVs

BEiJiNG >> Rising global food de-mand will push up prices 10 to 40 percent over the coming de-cade and governments need to boost investment to increase farm production, a forecast by two international agencies said Thursday.

Growth in food production has slowed over the past de-cade even as rising incomes in developing countries boosted consumption, said the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organi-zation and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and De-velopment.

“We’re observing slower growth in production and pro-ductivity, and that is a con-cern,” said Merritt Cluff, an FAO economist, at a news con-ference.

Governments need to find ways to give farmers access to technology to increase output and get more of their crops to market, the agencies said in a report, “Agricultural Outlook 2013-2022.”

Prices are expected to rise 10 to 40 percent over the com-ing decade, with the cost of meat rising faster andcording to Ken Ash, director gen.

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By Joyce m. rosenbergAP Business Writer

NEW yorK >> Thousands of stunned small business owners call Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. each week after they’re turned down for a loan. Jeff Stibel, CEO of the busi-ness credit reporting company, has a message for them: Don’t blame the bank.

Instead, he says, find out how you contributed to that rejection and start working to improve your company’s credit rating so next time, the answer will be “yes.”

“There is so much you can do, and should do, before you need a loan,” he says.

Dun & Bradstreet Credibility compiles credit reports on small businesses, which banks can buy to help make their lending deci-sions. In a recent conversation with The Associated Press, Stibel talked

about the continuing sluggishness in bank lending to small companies. Lending rose modestly in April, ac-cording to the Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index, after falling the first three months of this year. Stibel agrees that banks can make it difficult for small businesses to get loans. But he argues that owners bear some responsibility when they’re re-jected.

Many small business owners go about getting a loan all wrong, he says. They apply to banks that aren’t likely to approve them. When they apply, they haven’t made sure their companies’ finances and credit ratings are solid. And they haven’t taken the time to cultivate a relationship with a banker who will be sympathetic.

Stibel knows that business own-ers aren’t helping themselves be-cause they call Dun & Bradstreet

Credibility after banks reject loan applications and tell them to find out what’s in their business credit reports. The files are similar to the

personal credit reports on consum-ers that are compiled by reporting agencies such as Experian and Equifax. They include information such as a company’s payment re-cord, how much debt it’s carrying and the number of loans it has ap-plied for.

“We talk to over 20,000 busi-nesses a week and a huge percent-age of them don’t even know they have a business credit file. They think that all they have is a personal credit file,” Stibel says.

Sometimes owners don’t see their business credit report until they’re sitting with a loan officer in a bank branch, Stibel says. For bankers, that’s a red flag.

“They’ll say to a business owner, ‘I’m trying to believe that I can trust you to pay your bills and that I can entrust money to you and you’ll be a good corporate steward and pay me back — but if you don’t

know what your credit profile looks like, then how on earth can I lend you money?”’ he says.

Owners can get copies of their files from reporting companies in-cluding Dun & Bradstreet Credibil-ity, Experian and Equifax.

They also should study their per-sonal credit reports, which bank-ers consider when making loan de-cisions.

Another roadblock: Many busi-nesses aren’t savvy about the appli-cation process, Stibel says. Owners think they can walk into a bank, fill out an application and presto, get a loan. These days, that’s a good way to get turned down.

“Before they think about any credit, they should do what they do before they start a business,” Stibel says. That includes writing a formal business plan that explains how you will spend the money you want to borrow.

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How small businesses owners can avoid loan rejection

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Jeff Stibel, ceO of dun & Bradstreet credibility corp., poses in his office in Malibu, calif. Stibel says that many small business owners go about getting a loan all wrong.

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