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Friday, February 28, 2020
Middlefield votes to sell property to Habitat for Humanity By Everett Bishop Town Times
In a unanimous vote in the affirmative, the town of Middlefield voted to sell the property at 171 Hubbard St. to Middlesex Habitat for Humanity.
Rev. Jeanette Hicks distributes ashes to Dave Montgomery, left, and Frank Ovchar as part of Ashes to Go services. Photo by Everett Bishop, Town Times
Churches collaborate on Ashes to Go effort By Everett Bishop Town Times
Ash Wednesday services brought the Durham and Middlefield communities together outside of church. On Wednesday, the Middlefield Federated Church, the United Churches of Durham and the Church of the Epiphany joined to distribute ashes as part of the United Churches’ annual Ashes to Go services.
Rev. Jeanette Hicks, of United Churches, has been been providing ashes to people on the go in Durham since she joined the congregation in 2016. “The idea is about bringing the observation of Lent out to the people instead of expecting people to come into the church,” she said.
“[W]e’re here to connect with people and help them connect to God,” said Pastor Rebekah Forni of Middlefield Federated Church. “People will have tears in their eyes when they receive their ashes. We don’t know the story behind those tears, but there are stories.”
The vote occurred at a public hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 18. The regularly scheduled Board of Selectmen meeting was momentarily adjourned in order to hold the hearing. First Selectman Edward Bailey said the town had initially received the property through a “tax foreclosure” in July. Since then, the town has done some “remediation work” on the land before they were approached by Middlesex Habitat for Humanity.
“We discussed terms and conditions of selling the property to Habitat for Humanity and in essence that boiled down to what we had invested in the property … and that included the unpaid taxes, legal fees to gain possession of the property and maintenance costs,” said Bailey. Habitat for Humanity purchased the property from the town for $53,424. The town and Habitat for Humanity reached an agreement to subtract the taxes accrued over the projected nine-month construction period of the home from the purchase price of the property, which was estimated at $55,705. See Habitat, A13
Lent — the 40 weekdays Ashes were distributed in from Ash Wednesday to the parking lot of United Easter — is marked by penitence and fasting. See Ashes, A13
Scout builds picnic tables for popular park By Everett Bishop Town Times
Five new picnic tables can be found at Allyn Brook Park thanks to the efforts of a local teenager.
Nick Vestergaard, a senior at Coginchaug High School, crafted the picnic tables as part of his project to become an Eagle Scout. When he learned that
Durham Parks and Recreation wanted more picnic tables for the Pickett Lane park, Vestergaard jumped into action. See Scout, A6
First Selectman Edward Bailey and Selectman Carol Bufithis led a town hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 18 concerning the sale of 171 Hubbard St. to Habitat for Humanity. The motion passed unanimously. Photo by Everett Bishop, Town Times
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“I’ve grown up around Allyn Brook Park and I wanted to do something that would be good for my local community,” Vestergaard said. “There are a lot of community events in the park, including summer camps run by Parks and Rec and the Strong School cross country meets. These tables will provide a better space to conduct those activities.”
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Yeah, I’m getting older, and I’m getting better too You knew it was coming. Yes, I will once again be extolling the virtues of Birthday Month. (It’s March, just in case you forgot. I’m sure you didn’t, though.) I think it would be safe to assume that you will be reading a column of this nature every year at this time. Spoiler alert! Most people of my years are fervently wishing their birthdays would just skip over
them, not depositing another year onto their timeline. I have a friend who is six weeks older than me, and I think he is actually offended when I call him up to wish him a Happy Birthday. February 14 finds him, every year, staring out the window, asking “How did this happen?” I tell him that we cannot do anything about that hefty number, but we can, however, have a darn good time along the way.
And I am having a darn good time. I know what he means, though. We grew up together, and often we wax nostalgic about “the good old days.” The sledding, the ice skating, the snowball fights, the pillow fights. And in our minds it all took place last week. The years have had wings on them, and from the looks of things they are only going to speed up. In my youth I did not give time its proper due.
I thought I had an endless supply of it, so I frittered it away wishing for this thing or that to hurry up and get here – the weekend, Christmas, a fun outing. Now I am more inclined to settle into the moments that have been given me, and cherishing them. Those other things will come soon enough. Meanwhile, let’s live for now. I think Father Time and I are starting to get along a little better. Let’s just
say that I respect him more. I will admit to a period of envying youth. Wow, you have it all ahead of you, and I’m guessing you can still do your squats. It came as a shock, actually, my age, See Carr, A10
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With tolls debate on ice, fiscal issues loom large By Keith M. Phaneuf © The Connecticut Mirror
Connecticut’s tolls debate may be over for now, but that lull only means Gov. Ned Lamont and legislators now must resolve a daunting list of fiscal challenges left in its wake. Absent toll receipts from large trucks, what other measures will be needed to
keep the transportation program solvent for the rest of the decade? Will Lamont, who eased his proposed debt diet to win support for tolls, again try to tighten the purse strings? And will lawmakers respond by again attempting to seize control of Connecticut’s credit card?
“I’ve lost patience,” the governor said last week as he announced the tolls bill had fallen into political limbo. “We’re going to fix our transportation plan, and we’re ready to work with anybody who has a constructive alternative.”
Fixing the Special Transportation Fund What does that mean? For the short term, the governor said, it involves shifting priorities.
On paper, the budget’s Special Transportation Fund — which repays the borrowing that sustains highway, bridge and rail upgrades — is in fine shape, projected to run modest surpluses through 2024. But appearances can be deceiving. Those numbers only hold up if Connecticut keeps fixing infrastructure at its current pace that barely maintains a state of good repair — and
leaves very little for strategic projects that enhance traffic flow. The transportation fund currently supports roughly $800 million per year in state borrowing, which in turns leverages about $750 million in matching federal grants. But DOT officials say as aging, overcrowded highways and bridges demand more costly repairs, $1.5 billionSee Tolls, A11
Bill aims to combat Quality Homecare for Seniors ‘lunch shaming’ State lawmakers are weighing a proposed bill to limit the embarrassment faced by students whose unpaid school lunch debts add up. That embarrassment is commonly referred to as “lunch shaming.” The phrase evokes images of school cafeteria employees replacing a student’s preferred hot meal
with a cold meal, such as a cheese sandwich, in front of peers. Meanwhile, local school officials, reached last week, maintain their current policies do not constitute lunch shaming.
The legislation would also allow school districts to collect donations to pay off meal debts.
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The purpose of the legislation would be to codify into law language ensurState Rep. Mary Mushining “no child goes hungry sky, D-Wallingford, is one and to avoid the embarof the bill’s co-sponsors. Mushinsky described prac- rassment and hunger that would fall on the child,” tices like meal substituMushinsky said. tions as unnecessary and even hurtful toward chilConnecticut’s Child Advodren. cate Sarah Eagan recently testified before the legisla“They are just kids, this ture’s Committee on Chilhappens through no fault dren in favor of the proof their own. Sometimes, parents don’t have enough posed law.
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to-$1.6 billion won’t get the job done, and something closer to $2 billion per year will be needed. Based on that assumption, the transportation fund hits insolvency around 2025 or 2026. As a stop-gap measure, Lamont said he favors taking about $200 million in borrowing supported by the budget’s General Fund — borrowing currently used to support school construction, conservation efforts, state building maintenance and economic development — and shifting that to transportation.
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current wholesale prices, according to the according to the Connecticut Energy Marketers Association. But when oil prices skyrocketed in 2007 and 2008, the tax generated as much as 26 cents per gallon. Regardless of the amount, gasoline station owners say they build the entire cost into the base price charged motorists, who also face a flat, 25-cents-per-gallon retail tax. The wholesale tax last increased in 2013, following a schedule adopted in 2005.
The retail tax last was changed in 2000, when legislators and then-Gov. John G. Rowland lowered it from 32 to 25 cents per gallon.
Another option to mitigate the absence of toll receipts would be to increase sales tax revenues dedicated to transportation.
Neither Lamont nor any legislators have proposed any fuel tax hikes to date this year. The governor often has said tolls and other user fees were more reliable than increasing gasoline taxes, given the increasing fuel efficiency of vehicles.
The sales tax currently provides about 30% of the STF’s revenues, and legislators passed a bipartisan plan in 2017 to increase that share steadily through the mid2020s.
The two fuel taxes together provide roughly half of the revenue for the $1.73 billion Special Transportation Fund.
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This means Connecticut could have borrowed significantly more for infrastructure repairs.
But Connecticut has two taxes that impact the price of gasoline — not to mention one of the highest fuel tax burdens in the nation.
In other words, maintaining that transfer plan wouldn’t push off the projected insolvency of the transportation fund. It just would stop it from happening even sooner.
Lamont and his fellow Democrats in the legislature voted in June to scale back that increase, and Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano, R-North Haven, said officials
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Equally important, they would have helped Connecticut qualify for low-interest federal transportation loans.
More importantly, the tollscentered transportation plan Lamont supports also was counting on sales tax transfers to the STF to ramp up again in 2022, jumping by more than $180 million that year.
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“I hate to do it this way,” Lamont said. “It’s bonding in place of other things that are priorities, but right now there’s no other option on the table.”
Truck toll receipts would have added $150 million-to$200 million per year.
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Connecticut has one of the highest debt burdens, per capita, of any state, prompting Lamont 13 months ago to propose a “debt diet.”
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The governor relented two weeks ago, proposing $1.77 billion in new general obligation bonding for this fiscal year — borrowing to bevrepaid out of the budget’s General Fund and not the STF.
And there’s also no guarantee legislators will accept the governor’s proposal to redirect $200 million in bonding away from non-transportation projects and into highways, bridges and rail lines.
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That was more than $400 million beyond what the governor wanted, much of its focused on economic development priorities of Democratic legislators. And administration officials made it clear this was an olive branch to build support for tolls. Now that tolls are on hold, sources say the “debt diet” is back in play. Sen. John Fonfara, D-Hartford, co-chairman of the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee, said he hopes the administration’s bonding proposal from two weeks ago is still on the table. “I take the administration at its word,” the Hartford lawmaker said. “I thought those decisions were based in good [borrowing] policy.”
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Legislators from both parties balked last November when the administration unilaterally moved the Office of School Construction Grants and Review — which annually oversees hundreds of millions of dollars in construction grants to school districts — from the Department of Administrative Services and into the Office of Policy and Management. A high-profile agency that houses the governor’s budget staff, OPM is seen as closely involved with implementing the administration’s political agenda. Critics said the move threatens a process that not only works well, but has traditionally been immune from politics. “This reeks of politics,” Deputy House Minority Leader Vincent J. Candelora, R-North Branford, said at the time. “There is not a good reason to make this move.”
Administration officials said the move only was about increasing efficiency, but conceded it would require legislative approval, and submitted a bill this month to retroactively endorse the switch. But the legislature’s Education Committee raised a bill last week to block it. Though full language hasn’t been drafted, the bill’s title starts with “An Act Prohibiting the Transfer of School Construction from DAS to OPM.”
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Durham Public Library’s MiniGolf Adventure is coming up. On Saturday, March 7, from 5 to 9 p.m., people age 21 and over are invited to golf, and on Sunday, March 8, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., families can play.
Absentee ballot applications for the Presidential Primaries are available from the Town Clerk, and via the Town of Durham website and from the website of the Secretary of State.
Trivia Bee The Coginchaug Valley Education Foundation’s Community Trivia Bee is Friday, March 27, 7 p.m., at Strong School. Register at coginchaugvef.org.
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IF YOU Mention A&R CLEANOUT SERThis Ad VICE - Removing conSPRING Yard tents of homes, attics, Clean-Ups garages, basements, Brush, branches, leaves, businesses. Reasonstorm damage able. 203-281-6387. **JUNK REMOVAL** Appl’s, Furniture, Junk, Debris, etc WE CAN REMOVE ANYTHING Entire house to 1 item removed! FREE ESTIMATES Sr. Citizen Discount LIC & INS. 203-535-9817 or CLEAN & REMOVE 860-575-8218 Furniture, appliances, entire contents of: homes, sheds, estates, attics, basements, garages & more. *SPRING YARD Clean-ups* FREE ESTIMATES. LIC & INS. 203-535-9817 or 860-575-8218.
Masonry ALEX MASONRY - 30 yrs. exp. Patios, Ret. Walls, Steps, Brick, Stone, Chimneys. #580443. 203-232-0257 or 203596-0652
LOCAL MASON ALL TYPES OF MASONRY WORK Stonewalls, Sidewalks, Patios, Retaining Walls, Chimney Fireplace, Old Job Repairs. 203-695-2689. tomorismasonry@ gmail.com CT LIC 0641435
Moving and Storage
ROOFING, SIDING, WINDOWS, DECKS & REMODELING. 203-639-0032 email: info@ gonzalezconstruction llc.com Fully Licensed & Insured Reg #577319
RT RELOCATION Your moving and storage specialists. Call for a free estimate. 833-668-3978.
Plumbing GEORGE J MACK & Yalesville Construction SONS - Servicing the Specializing in all phases Meriden area since of residential & 1922. Toilet, faucet, commercial roofing. sink & drain repairs. Water heater replace- Senior citizen discount Insured Free est. ments. 15% Sr citizen 203-265-5200 disc. Member of BBB. HIC#0631937 203-238-2820.
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