Free Affidavit - District Court of Connecticut - Connecticut

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT
WENDELL HARP and :
ARCHITECTS ENVIRONNIENTAL 2
COLLABORATIVE INTERNATIONAL, RC., 2
: CASE NO: 3:03CV977(CFf))
Plaintiffs, :
v.
JOHN DeSTEFANO,
CITY OF NEW HAVEN and :
NEW HAVEN BOARD OF EDUCATION, :
Defendants.
: JANUARY 17, 2006
DECLARATION OF DR. BRIAN PERIGNS
I, BRIAN PERKINS, state under the pains and penalties of perjury as follows:
1. I am over the age of eighteen (18) and understand my obligation when
making a statement to this Court under the pains and penalties of pexjury.
2. I was a member of the Board of Education for the City of New Haven in
May 2003.
3. On May 27, 2003, a regular meeting ofthe Board of Education was held. I
was in attendance at the meeting.
I 4. I voted to terminate the Board’s contract with Architects Environmental
Collaborative International, P.C. (“AECI") because I was not in favor of AECI
redesigning Prince Welch as I was dissatisfied with AECI’s performance designing the
Hiii Career High School and because I understood that AECI had not incorporated into its
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design for the Prince Welch School the ideas that the School Construction Program
wanted.
5. As a professor, I sometimes used classrooms at Hill Career High School
during the summer and found that it functioned poorly as a school. I found that
classrooms were not well designed, particularly computer labs where students could not
see projectors or the board, that storage areas and closets were not well placed and the
entrances and exits to the auditorinrns were not well situated.
6. I also understood that the relationship between the School Construction
Progam and AECI was not going well. - ·
7. I do not read the New Haven Register and did not know that Wendell Harp
and his wife supported Sherri Kiilins’ candidacy for Mayor when I voted to terminate the
AECI contract.
The foregoing statements were made under the pains and penalties of perjury.
B 'an Perkins
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