Thursday, February 5, 2009

The Editor's Notepod, Thurs., Feb. 5, 2009

Meriden/State: Rell’s budget message suggests closing the Meriden court house, along with Bristol’s. Apparently, she doesn’t think downtown Meriden has enough problems. This court house ranks 6th in the amount of business done on the criminal side. She says “No tax increases” but suggests hiking all fees and licenses. That’s not a tax?

Wallingford: Electric Division urging customers to circulate a petition. Well, why not? The letter urges that the ISO New England be made responsive, first to needs of consumers/customers rather than adding charges onto transmission costs to cover large investments made to bring power to Fairfield County — which Wallingford, by the way, has seen more than its share of. The whole system is broken, since it never did make any sense to deregulate a public utility. How to fix it is the challenge!

Southington: Congratulations to the Triano family on the Albert J. Dudzik Community Impact Award.

Wallingford: It is good that George Messier is working out well in the Veterans Service Center post.

Meriden: If new restrictions on phosphorus discharges into waste water are “in the pipeline,” and it there’s already a project of $40 million underway on the water treatment plant which includes nitrogen treatment, it sure makes sense to be proactive and deal with phosphorus now if we can.

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