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Their work will also be informed by research and recommendations from national organizations.

Bye highlighted the participation of national education policy organization The Hunt Institute, which will provide expertise to the panel. She said it will also examine and consider child care policy recommendations from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.

“This is critical for child care right now, because the pandemic just put a magnifying glass on the problems that child care had been facing for decades,” she said. “Programs are having a hard

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New sidewalks

Sidewalks are being constructed along the south side of Farmington Avenue between house No. 1208 eastward to the intersection of Farmington Avenue and No. 14 Patterson Way. Also, sidewalks are being constructed from house No. 32 to house No. 104 Newton Street, and along a portion of Langdon Court from New Britain Road to the entrance of the Kensington Woods Condominiums. Work is anticipated to be completed in late spring. Questions can be directed to the Public Works Department, 860-828-7022.

372 Project

The Connecticut Department of Transportation’s Office of Engineering is developing plans to rehabilitate the pavement on CT Route 372 in Berlin and Cromwell. Berlin officials recommend property owners who abut Mill Street and are planning paving or underground utili- time making it because they can only charge parents what parents can afford.”

Lamont and the legislature have vowed to make child care a priority this year, but advocates say the proposals don’t go far enough.

Expanding access to all parents while raising wages for teachers and boosting program capacity would cost the state an estimated $738 million annually, advocates say.

That’s nearly three times the state’s current allocation.

Leaders of child care operations say costs have gone up steadily in the last four years, due to inflation and the state’s rising minimum wage.

See Care, A12 ty projects this spring/summer contact Matthew R. Vail: 860-594-3274, matthew.vail@ct.gov. Reference State Project 171-487.

Boxes to Boots

Berlin-based non-profit Boxes to Boots, 28 Chamberlain Highway, sends care packages to members of the U.S. military serving overseas. To learn more about the organization and its needs, visit boxestoboots.org.

Wall of Honor

The Berlin Veterans Commission’s “Veterans Digital Wall of Honor,” located in Town Hall, is dedicated to “All Who Proudly Served and Sacrificed to Protect Our Country.” Berlin residents and their immediate family, past and present, who have served or are currently serving can be put up on the wall. Contact Peter Galgano at petergalgano@comcast.net or 860-604-7258.

Networking

Business Connections of Berlin aims to help local businesses connect and grow utilizing networking, marketing and educational opportunities. To learn more about the group, email businessconnectionsofberlin@ gmail.com or find them on social media.

Post 68

American Legion Post 68 has been serving Berlin veterans since 1947. Post 68 is looking for active military members, veterans, and family and friends of veterans to become involved. Pick up an application at the Post home, 154 Porters Pass. For more information, email Post Commander Vin Trigila at v_trig@yahoo.com or send a message to Post 68 via Facebook.

Mentoring

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut is an affiliate of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the 119-year-old national youth mentoring organization.

Based in Hartford, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut offers life-changing programs to at-risk children in all of the state’s 169 municipalities. Learn more about Big Brothers Big Sisters by visiting ctbigs.org.

Snow ordinance

Town ordinance states that “an owner of land or buildings fronting on any street or public place ... where there is any sidewalk shall, within 12 hours of daylight, or not to exceed 24 hours of elapsed time immediately following the cessation of a storm of snow ... cause the same to be removed from such sidewalk.” Failure to abide by the ordinance “shall result in a fine after an initial warning.”

Textile recycling

Berlin has partnered with AFAB Recycling LLC, a Connecticut-based textile recycling company.

Residents are encouraged to drop off unwanted clothing and shoes at the Transfer Station, 19 Town Farm Lane, Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon.

every ton of solid waste collected in their towns. Bright Feeds charges little or nothing to take food waste.

On Wednesday, the legislature’s Environment Committee was to vote on House Bill 6664, a measure the Lamont administration says would exponentially increase the collection of food waste the raw material for Bright Feeds and Quantum.

Among the bill’s provisions is a section that would impose a $5 per ton fee on municipal solid waste that is not recycled or composted. The Lamont administration says the fee would help finance a food waste collection infrastructure, saving money in the long run.

Another would implement a policy to force packaging changes and shift costs for recycling from municipalities to the makers of consumer goods.

The packaging policy is known as “extended producer responsibility,” or EPR.

Connecticut already has single-industry EPR programs for products that cannot be practically or safely dumped or recycled: paint, electronics, mattresses and propane cylinders.

Waste haulers oppose an EPR program directed at nearly all consumer packaging, saying it could destabilize the state’s current single-stream recycling and interfere with the ability of municipalities to control recycling and contracts with haulers. “Our members are just concerned they invested over 20 years of sweat and tears into this industry and then face the possibility it can be wiped out,” said Lewis Dubuque of the National Waste & Recycling Association.

Katie Dykes, the commissioner of energy and environmental protection, said the administration is well aware of the objections, which were expressed at a public hearing last month and in a private meeting last week.

“I think that the committee process has successfully surfaced a lot of the different concerns that people have,” she said. “It’s going to need more discussion and more work.”

Rep. Joe Gresko, D-Stratford, co-chair of the Environment Committee, said he expected a party-line vote on the bill, with him assuring fellow members of the Democratic majority that negotiations will continue.

“But at this point, we want to get out of committee at least what everyone agrees on, and that is food diversion, and that is minimal recycled content for products,” Gresko said.

By requiring certain percentages of recycled content in packaging, the bill could increase the value of recycled material by creating a larger market.

In much the same way, a previous law setting standards for large businesses to separate food wastes helped make Bright Feeds and Quantum Biopower viable. And the bottle bill drew investments into recycling 30 years ago.

Brian Paganini, the vice president of Quantum, said Lamont’s bill would be another step forward.

“A lot of folks here in this room believe here today that we’re on the verge of that innovation again,” said Paganini, who was on the Bright

The solid-waste fee would provide $11 million in annual funding to continue a one-shot $10 million grant program the state is now offering municipalities to experiment in waste food diversions.

“Municipalities want this,” Dykes said. “We had 45 different towns that applied.” West Haven is beginning a city-wide collection program.

Deep River is experimenting with a food-scrap drop-off program at its transfer station. West Hartford is offering curbside food waste pickup to 680 homes, Dykes’ among them.

It’s unclear how much personal political capital Lamont is investing in passage of the bill. He paused when asked that question at Bright Feeds.

Feeds tour. “And we believe that the governor’s legislation is going to be the catalyst for the future of a really innovative waste system here in the state of Connecticut.”

“I’m right here talking to the people of Connecticut, urging you to talk to your legislators,” Lamont said. “This is important, because it’s got the potential to save you money. It is the environmentally smart thing to do.”

But during that time, most of the state’s subsidies to child care operators have remained flat, and federal pandemic emergency funding is now being phased out.

“We need systemic funding,” said Marc Jaffe, chief executive of Children’s Learning Centers of Fairfield County. Jaffe said state subsidies, which cover about $8,900 per student at his facilities, would need to rise to $14,500 per student in order to stabilize his operation. “That will create a sustainable funding stream for the industry. That will allow us to invest, increase wages, and make us able to at least [be on] a somewhat more level playing field.”

Lamont, who has repeatedly emphasized fiscal discipline even as the state’s surplus reaches record levels, said Friday that he’s open to increased funding for child care if the panel recommends it. “We do a lot of subsidies, perhaps we ought to be doing even more, ” he said. “We’ll hear from each and every one of you on that.”

The governor painted the panel initiative as a response to federal promises that never materialized. “I was really hoping the feds were going to step up and make day care universally available,” he said, flanked at the podium Friday by many of the panel’s members. “As we’re waiting for that day, what can we as a state do? That’s why you guys are here.”

Connecticut was one of 20 states that made a bid for an early primary to the Democratic National Committee, which had made clear it was intent on shaking up the primary calendar by raising the profile of states with populations more diverse than the early primary caucus state of Iowa and primary state of New Hampshire. State legislatures set the dates in conjunction with the politi- cal parties and sometimes at odds with them. The parties establish a window for the states to hold their primaries, which can only be enforced by threatening to deprive states of delegate spots if they do not comply.

The Democrats’ new calendar would strip New Hampshire of its first-in-the-nation primary status by scheduling South Carolina for Feb. 3, Nevada and New Hampshire for Feb. 6, Georgia for Feb. 13, and Michigan for Feb. 27.

New Hampshire is expected to defy the Democrats’ new calendar, since state law requires its presidential primary to be at least seven days before any other state’s primary.

Republicans still would begin with a New Hampshire primary on Feb. 13.

Even with a primary on April 2, Connecticut still would be relatively late. In addition to the five states with February primaries, another 14 will hold primaries on March 5, dubbed “Super Tuesday.”

The Super Tuesday lineup includes the New England states of Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont, along with delegate-rich California and Texas.

The other issue on which DiNardo and Proto agree is money. They want the maximum contributions to the state party to be raised from $10,000 to $15,000.

“Our small donors are our lifeblood, and they really make our party hum,” Proto said. “But our maximum donors are also instrumental in helping us pay our everyday costs, and like any other business, and we do have a business side of this, our cost to do business has increased over the last 10 or 12 years. And we needed an opportunity to be able to pay for those costs as well.”

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