Meriden: Bulky waste pick-up program. Eliminating it seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face. It’s a service which, according to records, 288 households used last year, 491 the year before, bringing in revenue. Since in neither year did the revenue cover cost of two laborers, why not raise the fee so it will do that as well as cover at least a portion of the cost of removal (an estimate at best) and for clerical help? Fee would still be below that of renting a dumpster. Who cares if landlords pay for the service?
Wallingford/State: Commr. Farrell has a ruling to make on bonuses: are the millions paid as “bonus” sums to AIG execs covered by the protections of CT wage laws?
Wallingford: talk of wage freezes for all town employees. The technique here has to be via appeal to voluntary sacrifice. Town can’t alter salary of sitting mayor, nor can it unilaterally reduce union’s negotiated wages. But it can ask for cooperation.
State/Casinos: this is a heck of a time to pick a fight over whether the state can regulate 2nd hand smoke on territorial lands. But, since CT already seems to issue licenses to sell booze, I can’t see why it cannot also regulate smoking, since it does so at every other bar and public restaurant.
Meriden: Federal cash for renewal of federally-funded housing, which unhappily, now excludes Chamberlain Heights.
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