Free Affidavit - District Court of Connecticut - Connecticut

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UNITED STATE-S DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT
WENDELL HARP and :
ARCHITECTS ENVIRONMENTAL :
COLLABORATIVE INTERNATIONAL, P.C., :
: CASE NO: 3:03CV977(CFD)
Plaintiffs, :
v.
JOHN DeSTEFANO,
CITY OF NEW HAVEN and :
NEW HAVEN BOARD OF EDUCATION, :
Defendants.
: IANUARY 17, 2006
DECLARATION DR. REGINALD MAYO
I, REGINALD MAYO, state under the pains and penalties of perjury as follows:
l. I am over the age of eighteen (IS) and understand niy obligation when
making a statement to this Court under the pains and penalties of peri ury.
2. I am the Superintendent ot` Schools for the Board of Education for the City
of New Haven.
3. In I994, Wendell Harp ("Harp”) was awarded a multimillion contract to
redesign the Hill Career School.
4. Subsequently, Architects Environmental Collaborative International, P.C.
(‘°AECl"), of which Harp is a principal, was awarded the contract to redesign the Prince
Welch School.
5. In late 2002 to early 2003, staff of the School Construction Program and
Mayor DeStel“ano advocated changing the architect for the Prince Welch School.
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6. At the end of March 2003, at my urging, AECI was given one last chance
to serve as the architect for the school.
7. I sought to retain AECI because AECI was the oniy local minority owned
architecture firm working in the School Construction Program and the New Haven public
schools are over 80 % minority. Additionally, I had a personal relationship with Harp.
The foregoing statements were made under the pains and penalties of perjury.
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