Stamford 2025: The Plan
Nicola’s Vision for Stamford
Smart Growth. Responsible Leadership. Results That Matter.
Nicola Tarzia’s approach to city leadership is simple:
- Govern like a business
- Act with transparency
- Prioritize the needs of families, workers, and taxpayers.
Stamford faces complex challenges, and addressing them requires more than talk. Below are the key pillars of his 2025 mayoral agenda, grounded in real experience and driven by common sense, not politics.
- Leverage city, state, federal funding, with more public and private partnership funding.
- Expand Stamford base credit union with more landing power for citizen benefits and city profits.
- Expand Stamford DSSD, with more events more structure more services more income.
- Expand Stamford’s Grand List through equal and equitable taxation for all, increased commercial investment, and green building incentives.
- Turn Stamford into the education capital of Connecticut with the UConn expansion, fostering partnerships with the city and community and more preschools.
Due to the massive overbuillding of downtown Stamford we must reevaluate all commercial properties, tax assessments and districts for a fairer citizens tax relief.
- Immediately implement senior citizen tax relief, to retain long-time residents.
- Reevaluate the equitable tax base and assessment to ensure fairness between residential and commercial properties.
- Launch a Department of efficiencies in an efforts to identify and cut inefficiencies and waste in government.
- Outsource less; instead, use city volunteers and cross-train city staff.
- Examine city wide and our educational systems operating costs, and capitols projects costs, with proper long term budgeting for any transparent inefficiencies by having a 3 to 5 years spread sheet that determines prior year, current year and future years funding from all sources.
- Increase support for veterans and seniors through healthcare, housing initiatives and added facilities.
- Improve citizen and employee interaction by reopening all public government offices and auditing underperforming departments.
- Launch an insourcing committee to reduce outsourced consulting costs.
- Expand Stamford Sound Credit Union by partnering with lending institutions to benefit Stamford citizens and businesses.
- Address health department and other city departments inefficiency to help a benefit affordable buildings and housing tenants.
- Enhance the human resources Department for a stronger work force and help under staff departments.
- Reexamine, reassess, and challenge unfair education cost-sharing formulas, methodology and criteria: Stamford vs. Bridgeport, New Haven, Waterbury, and Hartford.
- Fund via four channels: city, state, federal, and public-private partnerships (multilingual school and preschool programs).
- Build or insource a local special education center.
- Foster and improve corporate vested interest in our public schools.
- Further support our nonprofit programs.
- Focus and support alongside with the Board of Education to address the Achievement Gap!
- Improve downtown and South End traffic with specially-funded traffic officers and expanded traffic infrastructure to address traffic and crime.
- Focus on I-95 and Merritt Parkway flow and pursue ferry/heliport options for NYC/Long Island.
- Continue improvements for the Stamford Train Station.
- Address condo and smart growth plaining with added infrastructure development.
- Offer tax breaks and incentives to residential and commercial property owners, landowners, and investors to have more energy-efficient homes and buildings.
- Boost public transportation and reduce emissions through policy.
- Promote enhanced energy ratings and savings for new and existing residential and commercial properties.