MAYOR PEREZ SAYS COMMUNITIES MATTER

---NEWS ADVISORY---

 

Saturday, April 14^th

9:30 a.m. --- Mayor Eddie A. Perez and the Knox Parks Foundation will be planting trees with residents in the West End.  The Knox Parks Foundation donated 40 trees that will be planted along Sherman Street.  This environmental event kicks off at 60 Sherman Street.

7:00 p.m.--- Mayor Perez will present proclamations to Ambassadors visiting Hartford at the West Indian Social Club’s 57^th Anniversary Program.   The black tie event takes place at the West Indian American Center Ballroom, 3340 Main Street in the City’s Northeast neighborhood.

Monday, April 16^th

11:00 a.m.--- Mayor Perez, Chief Roberts, and Assistant Majority Leader Calixto Torres will lead a news conference on a City ordinance designed to help get illegal guns off the streets of Hartford.  The news conference will be held in City Council Chambers on the second floor of City Hall, 550 Main Street in Downtown Hartford.  The Mayor has already introduced the ordinance to members of City Council and it will be discussed in Councilman Torres’ Public Safety Committee hearing on Monday night starting at 5:00 p.m.

Mayor Perez first spoke about his ordinance proposal at his State of the City Address.  It would require Hartford residents to report lost or stolen firearms within 72 hours.  This ordinance would also enable Corporation Counsel to sue anyone, anywhere who failed to report a lost or stolen gun that is used in a felony in Hartford.  (Copies of the proposal will be made available at the news conference that will also be carried live for Hartford residents on Government Cable Access Channel 21.) 

 

Mayor Perez says, “The people of Hartford spend millions of dollars fighting gun crime and 93-percent of these weapons come from out of town.  It is time that the people who buy these guns are held accountable.”