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Economic outlook addressed By Lauren Takores Record-Journal staff
The town leaders of Wallingford and North Haven expressed a positive outlook for the economic future of their respective communities during virtual speeches last week. The Quinnipiac Chamber of Commerce hosts the annual State of the Town event, which is free to chamber members and in the past has taken place at a luncheon. This year’s virtual event took place Thursday, Feb. 18 via Zoom.
North Haven First Selectman Michael Freda speaks during the State of the Town virtual event, held Feb. 18. Photos by Lauren Takores, Record-Journal
North Haven First Selectman Michael Freda and Wallingford Mayor William W. Dickinson Jr. focused their comments on how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shaped the current economic state of their respective towns.
Garrett Sheehan, president of the Quinnipiac and Greater New Haven chambers of commerce.
Still ‘rock solid’ Freda is in his sixth term as North Haven first selectman and made his 12th consecutive State of the Town address. He said that the past 14 months in North Haven have been “a very dramatic story.”
North Haven has remained “rock solid financially,” he said, maintaining a high bond rating status while being battered by the pandemic and a tornado from Tropical Storm Isaias. See State of the Town, A2
Cicarella focused on getting residents ‘back to work’ By Nadya Korytnikova The Citizen
Paul Cicarella Jr. is settling in to his new role as a state senator.
GSB now has seven full-service banking centers.
There’s a new bank in town With construction now complete, GSB’s newest branch office will officially open in March with an anticipated opening date of March 1, bringing more community banking to North Haven. Located at the intersection of Washington and Blakeslee avenues, this new facility represents not just the expansion into a
new market, but also incorporates new designs and features designed to deliver great experiences through technology, including a customer engagement bar. The customer engagement bar enhances GSB’s customer engagement capabilities through a combination of personal interSee Bank, A3
Rather than raising taxes, the freshman senator believes the state should tighten its financial belt.
“Just like small businesses and households do every day, the state needs to find a way to reduce its spending,” said Cicarella. “Sometimes, to make ends meet, you have to make hard “The last thing we decisions and cut cerneed to do as a state is Cicarella tain expenses. We have to raise taxes,” said Cito find where there’s carella, who represents the 34th District, which is wasteful spending and be creative to reduce costs, but it can comprised of Durham, East Haven, North Haven and Wall- be done if we work hard together.” ingford. “People have bills to pay, they have a budget. When Cicarella opposes tax hikes on you tax the middle class, any any income bracket, and is increase in expenses can drastically change your life.” Sworn into office last month, the Republican’s to-do list includes cutting taxes, supporting small business and bolstering the overall economy.
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The storm affected about 45 percent of the town. It took nine weeks to remove the debris, Freda said.
Amazon currently employs 5,500 people in North Haven. Freda said he’s working with the global shipping giant on a $13 million internal expansion at the facility. Despite the challenges, the town has “helped people try to get back to some normalcy, and dealing with people who really have been hurt very hard by this pandemic.” Freda shared some projects the town is working on to fill vacant buildings and properties along Universal Drive and Washington Avenue (Route 5) with new commercial ventures, including retail stores, gas stations and hotels.
Coming together Dickinson has delivered a State of the Town address annually since he became mayor of Wallingford in 1984. He did not appear on camera last Thursday, calling into the event by phone. In his remarks, Dickinson highlighted the work of the
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“So much is still being done with all the issues surrounding, and uncertainty surrounding, the COVID,” Dickinson said. “The future is bright, so let’s continue all of our efforts.”
Vaccine clinics have been staffed by town employees — including health department staff, school nurses and firefighter/ paramedics — and employees from Masonicare, Choate Rosemary Hall and Allnex. Gaylord Hospital is allowing the town to store its vaccine doses in its refrigerators. Dickinson also talked about how some Wallingford businesses and manufacturers have responded to the pandemic. Lyons Upholstery Shop, 864 N. Colony Road, began producing thousands of face masks, distributing many to manufacturing companies to protect workers. Sorrento Fine Woodwork, 340 Quinnipiac St., put cabinet-making on hold to create polycarbonate face shields and sneeze guards. Allnex, an industrial supplier of resins and additives, produced hand sanitizer for internal use and distributed 500 additional gallons to town departments in Wallingford and North Haven and several community service organizations. Ulbrich Steel started producing the metal parts for vaccination needles and for respirators.
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Garrett Sheehan, president of the Quinnipiac and Greater New Haven chambers of commerce, facilitated the State of the Town event, which also featured remarks from local business leaders and video interviews with local business owners.
Maribel Carrion, the Quinnipiac chamber’s operations manager, said last week’s State of the Town event drew about 115 people. Past in-person State of the Town gatherings have drawn about 120 to 130 attendees.
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North Haven’s 2019 grand list grew 9.3 percent, among the largest in the state, Freda said. One of the main reasons was the Amazon fulfillment center on Washington Avenue which opened that year.
The Health Department has held 17 vaccination clinics and inoculated 1,700 people so far, Dickinson said, while receiving only about 200 doses per week.
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That affected North Haven’s 2020 grand list, which grew only by .4 percent, a reflection of projects that did not materialize but provided $343,000 in new tax revenue.
ments worked in partnership with business to allow outdoor restaurant dining and retail operations to occur. The Public Works and Public Utilities departments worked to keep roads open and safe and the electric, water and sewer services operating.
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Freda said there were 37 economic development projects lined up that either fell apart or were put on pause at the start of the pandemic.
Wallingford Health Department in navigating the governor’s stream of executive orders and guidance around reopening, performing contact tracing and assisting the public schools and town departments so they could continue to operate.
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Lights at the end of the CIAC tunnel Spring season set, green light given for indoor track dual meets; wrestling still sidelined By Sean Krofssik Record-Journal staff
If all that comes to pass, it will mark the full return to state high school sports in CHESHIRE — Depending on Connecticut since the fall of their sport, many high 2019. The CIAC pulled the school athletes received plug on what remained of good news following the the winter tournaments last CIAC Board of Control meet- March as the state shut ing last week. down in the face of the pandemic. The entire 2020 The CIAC met with represpring season was canceled sentatives from the Connecticut Department of Pub- and, while an abbreviated 2020 fall season was played, lic Health and Gov. Ned Lamont’s office Thursday, Feb. there were no state tourna18 to discuss how COVID-19 ments. Ditto for the current winter season. revisions made by the National Federation of State “We should have the opporHigh School Associations tunity to have a full schedule may impact interscholastic during the spring season athletics. time frame,” CIAC Executive Director Glenn Lungarini The upshot? Restrictions were loosened on some win- said Feb. 18. “That includes league and state tournater sports — indoor track, competitive dance, competi- ments.” tive cheer — and a full sea“We want to keep in mind son has been set up for that we are trending in the spring sports. right direction, but we will The CIAC spring season will still be dealing with COVID begin on March 27, with the in the spring,” Lungarini regular season running April added. “The best insurance 10 through May 27, followed is still to do your part and taking mitigating steps to reby traditional state tournaduce the spread of COVID.” ments from June 1-13.
The spring season was always a priority for the CIAC after losing all of the 2020 campaign due to the COVID-19 outbreak. “The focus of the Board since the onset was to provide as full of a spring experience as possible,” Lungarini said. “Other sports had full regular season and a league tournament last year, but missed the state tournament. The spring athletes lost those things and we’re excited we’ve reached a point in our COVID response that we can plan some sense of normalcy to our kids.” “We still have some work to do with mitigation strategies for all sports, including boys lacrosse,” Lungarini added. Feb. 18, the CIAC also gave updates on the winter sports of competitive cheerleading, competitive dance, wrestling, indoor track jumping events as well as the spring sport of boys lacrosse. All were previously
deemed high risk for the spread of COVID-19 and recommended not to be played.
can’t move forward with wrestling.”
Earlier this month, however, the National Federation did away with the “high, moderate and low” risk categories for each sport, instead directing individual states to take other factors into account, such as community infection rates, to determine what sports are safe to play. That’s what led to the CIAC convening with DPH and Lamont’s office. Now, all sports appear to be moving forward with the exception of wrestling, which remains limited to conditioning and non-contact skill work in four-person cohorts. The CIAC hoped it could stage wrestling dual meets in March, but the DPH held to its original recommendation. “We understand the challenges that still exist with wrestling,” Lungarini said. “At this point, we agreed we
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Change made to vaccine rollout; Positive cases decline locally A major change to Connecticut’s vaccination schedule was announced Monday, with the state continuing with a mostly age-based system to make the rollout less complicated after seeing the challenges other states have faced in vaccinating essential workers and people with underlying health conditions. “The lesson learned here from all these other states is, complexity is the enemy of equity and speed, which makes it the enemy of public health,” Max Reiss, spokesman for Gov. Ned Lamont, told The Associat-
ed Press. Beginning March 1, anyone aged 55 to 64 will be allowed to get a COVID-19 vaccine. That group will be followed by people 45-54 on March 22; 35-44 years on April 12; and everyone else 34 years and younger on May 3.
ple, will be allowed to get their shots in March at dedicated clinics set up for them. No specific date has been announced yet.
thirty-five patients were hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed COVID19. There had been 7,523 COVID-19associated deaths.
— Associated Press The state’s most recent report showed 109 positive cases in North Haven. That works out to an average Cases dip in of 32.9 daily cases per 100,000 peoNorth Haven ple. The only exception to the DemocratAs of Feb. 18, the total of laboratory- The previous report showed 132 casic governor’s new rollout will be for confirmed and probable COVID-19 es in town, and in the Feb. 4 report, pre-K-12 school staff, including North Haven claimed 161 cases. teachers, and professional childcare cases reported among Connecticut providers. That group, which is esti- residents was 273,101, including — Citizen report mated to include about 100,000 peo- 256,139 laboratory-confirmed and 16,962 probable cases. Five hundred
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NHFD awarded FEMA grant New role for town attorney The Cheshire Town Council recently appointed Jeffery Donofrio from the law firm of Ciulla & Donofrio, LLP, in North Haven, as the new town attorney. Donofrio is currently the town attorney for both Berlin and North Haven, and has been practicing commercial litigation in Connecticut since 1990. Donofrio is expected to start in his new role on April 1. Cheshire Town Council Chairman Rob Oris expressed his support for the new appointment, which was made at the Feb. 9 meeting.
“The Town Council received numerous excellent responses and options and the process was thorough and was led by the Planning Committee of the Town Council,” he said at the meeting. “I believe attorney Donofrio is an excellent fit for Cheshire and I am sure he and his firm will provide Cheshire with top-notch legal services at a cost-effective rate. I sincerely thank our current attorney, Al Smith, and all his associates, for their years of service to Cheshire.” Donofrio’s contract was negotiated to $9,250 per month. — Record-Journal staff
FEMA recently announced $2.5 million in direct assistance grants to 84 volunteer and combination fire departments nationwide through the agency’s FY2020 Assistance to Firefighters Grant COVID-19 Supplemental program. The announcement included a grant awarded to the North Haven Fire Department for $77,277. A volunteer fire department means a fire department that has an all-volunteer force of firefighting personnel. A combination fire de-
Connecticut State Treasurer and Trustee of the Connecticut Higher Education Trust, Shawn T. Wooden, has relaunched the state’s 529 college savings plan under new program manager, Fidelity Investments.
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The gradual trend of companies relying on gig workers, the sudden blurring of home and work during the pandemic, and the decades-long weakening of unions are all contributing to a push by Connecticut lawmakers to resolve through legislation questions once answered by collective bargaining.
in terms of enlightened public policy and social policy,” Looney said. “Unions tend to drive issues not only regarding wages for their own members, but also try to help to create a sort of labor standard in the broader community.”
Union density, the percentage of unionized workers, has shrunk by half since 1983, when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the data consistently. It dropped from 20.1% to 10.8% in Should seniority determine who gets 2020, according to survey data released called back after a layoff? Must an employ- last month. Union density in the public er reimburse a remote worker for internet sector was 34.8%, more than five times the access? What notice is owed about sched- 6.3% in the private sector. ule changes, especially important to those About 17% of the overall work force in who juggle more than one job or need Connecticut were union members in 2020, care for children? a number that has been relatively stable With only 6% of private-sector workers since 2015, other than a dip to 14.5% in represented by unions, state lawmakers 2019 that unions see as a statistical fluke say they have a role in the conversation. due to the limited sample size. “I think that we have an obligation to ad“Even when the union density was much dress the changing nature of work,” said higher, we always pushed for things for all Sen. Julie Kushner, D-Danbury, a retired workers,” said Sal Luciano, the president of UAW executive who co-chairs the commit- the Connecticut AFL-CIO. “The deck is altee overseeing labor legislation. “And if ways stacked against working people.” you look at what’s happened over the last In 2019, the General Assembly passed a many decades … at the same time that work has changed, we’ve seen income in- law raising the minimum wage in increments to $15 in 2023. It also created a paid equality absolutely go through the roof.” family and medical leave program, essenEmployers and trade groups, some with a tially a mandated disability insurance bennational reach, recoil at the reach of some efit for private-sector workers at a cost of bills filed this year, calling them an intruone half of 1% of wages. sion in labor-management relations while businesses struggle to regain their footing Several of the bills filed this year were the during a recession induced by COVID-19. subject of public hearings Thursday, Feb. 18 before the Labor and Public Employees Proponents call them a necessary correcCommittee, long the venue for wedge istion in a rapidly evolving world. sues separating Democrats from Republi“I do think we are starting to see more and cans and labor from management. more of these bills,” said Eric Gjede, the vice president of government affairs at the House Minority Leader Vincent J. Candelora, R-North Branford, said he sees inconConnecticut Business and Industry Assosistencies in the legislature’s approach to ciation. “It’s trying to create a flat level of what should and shouldn’t be left to colbenefits, the same requirements in every lective bargaining. workplace, regardless of size or industry.” Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven, said the relationships between employer and employee have always rippled across society, appropriately inviting the attention of policy makers. What’s new is that lawmakers are taking the lead, not codifying and broadening gains won by labor in select industries, as was the case in 1938 when Congress banned child labor and established a standard work week — first 44 hours, now 40 — and a minimum wage in many industries.
“As laudable as that concept is, those are all matters of collective bargaining,” said Candelora, a business owner. “And you can’t have it both ways and tell Republicans that we can’t statutorily amend pension benefits, but then we can come in and legislate other benefits. To me, it is a direct contradiction.” See Unions, A10
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One of the bills heard Feb. 18 was House Bill 5198, filed by a member of his caucus, Rep. David Yaccarino, RNorth Haven. The measure would set standards for when employers must reimburse employees for broadband, cell phones and other things necessary to work from home.
While the concept resonates especially loudly during the pandemic, Yaccarino filed a similar bill years ago at the urging of a constituent, Frank Tropeano, who was assigned by his then-employer, a health insurer, to work from home.
cott, the ranking Republican on the labor committee, told him he was opposed on principle to nearly any intrusion by government into the employer-employee relationship, which he called “a free agreement between two people.”
Tropeano said his company was able to shed office space but shifted the burden for technology to its employees.
Tropeano there is an imbalance in the relationship between employer and employee if the employer ceases to act in good faith. But Gjede of CBIA said businesses are ready to discuss what types of expenses should be reimbursable under state law.
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House Bill 6343, proposed by four Democrats, is intended to protect gig workers by tightening the definition of an independent contractor under state law. A labor lawyer, Richard Hayber, said the bill should redefine a three-prong legal test of who is an employee, and entitled to benefits, as opposed to an independent contractor. One of the prongs is whether a worker provides service outside the employer’s place of business. “But this loophole ignores the present realities of our workforce, a large portion of which work at home or on the road, such as Grubhub
drivers,” Hayber said. “These workers clearly perform duties that go to the heart of the business.” The measure is opposed by the Internet Association, a trade group whose members include Grubhub, Amazon, Google, Uber and Lyft, among others. In written testimony, the association complained the bill would “fundamentally change how internet companies that provide needed economic opportunities to residents and businesses struggling to survive in a pandemic operate in Connecticut. Moreover, this proposal would cause significant economic hardship for numerous businesses already struggling to maintain a workforce and continue operating during the COVID emergency.” Looney is the sponsor of Senate Bill 658, a bill requiring employers to respect seniority when calling back workers after a layoff during the pandemic. He said his bill was prompted by the layoffs of hundreds of thousands of workers in Connecticut since the detection of COVID in March. Without union contracts protecting seniority, Looney said, he fears that older
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workers will remain sidelined as employers call back laid-off employees. Others said there is a risk of racial discrimination, as well. “While job loss has been universal, it has been particularly devastating to workers of color. During the first peak of the pandemic in April 2020, Latino workers had the highest unemployment rate nationally at nearly 19%, followed by Black workers at 16.4%. White workers had the lowest unemployment level at approximately 13%,” said Sean Edmund Rogers, a professor of industrial relations at the University of Rhode Island. Preliminary data indicates a higher percentage of white workers were called back. Looney also is a sponsor of Senate Bill 668, which would require advance notice for scheduling changes, though the current version is a statement of intent, not a fully drafted bill. How much notice would be required is to be determined. The bill was opposed as impractical by the Connecticut Hospital Association and the Connecticut Restaurant Association. Scott Dolch, the executive director of the restaurant group, said 600 restaurants have gone out of business during the pandemic, and considering any bill complicating operations for restaurants was “thoughtless.” There may be an effort to limit its reach to big box retailers such as Walmart, the nation’s largest private-sector employer and a notorious foe of unions. The rationale is the national chains have the wherewithal to offer decent notice on work schedules. When Kushner was a UAW executive, the union organized workers at Foxwoods Resort Casino, where reliable scheduling was an issue, she said.
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Friday, February 26, 2021
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