This legislative session, an important bill that will help individuals with intellectual disabilities is being considered. I've co-sponsored SB 294, An Act Concerning Services for Individuals With Intellectual Disability, to ensure that people with intellectual disabilities who have requested social services are properly informed and updated on the status of their request.
Earlier this week, I attended the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Hartford Region Open Choice Program hosted by the Capitol Region Education Council (CREC). The event commemorated the contributions of the founding districts: Farmington, Simsbury, South Windsor, and West Hartford.
Farmington received a $200,000 grant for the construction of a fire fighter training facility to be shared with the Town of Avon. The facility will consist of a 1,100 square foot building that will be built to resemble a house and support Class A fires to allow fire fighters the opportunity to practice working under live fire conditions. It will be located on Round Hill Road in Farmington on a parcel of land purchased by the town and adjacent to the existing police firing range.
State Representative Mike Demicco (D-Farmington & Unionville) marked the General Assembly’s passage of SB 573, a ban on variable rate electricity contracts for residential electric generation service – a first in the nation change.
