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Published May 18. 2021 7:58PM
By KEITH M. PHANEUF, The Connecticut Mirror
State legislators pushed back in bipartisan fashion Monday against Gov. Ned Lamont s plan for spending nearly $3 billion in federal pandemic relief, insisting on greater investments in business relief, tourism and recreation, and health care and social services.
The Appropriations Committee s proposal for American Rescue Plan Act funds also declined to leave large pools of discretionary funds for the governor to assign over the next three years.
The committee s proposal, coupled with a competing plan Lamont offered last month, now will be the foundation for final negotiations between executive and legislative branch leaders. A final plan for the federal money which includes more than $2.8 billion in flexible funding and $142 million specifically earmarked for capital projects is expected to be adopted before the regular 2021 General Assembly session closes on June 9.
Jessica Hill / AP
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont reached a deal between the state’s largest health care workers’ union and the nursing home industry late Thursday afternoon that would avert a strike Friday at 26 facilities. The nursing home operators still must finalize contract details with workers.
The agreement came two hours after the administration sweetened its offer to fund the industry in the next state budget. Nursing home operators still must finalize contract details with workers
“We have a basic agreement, which is a four-year deal, to put front-and-center our nurses who have been there at the nursing homes taking care of our seniors through thick and thin over the last 14 months,” Lamont said at 4:20 p.m. as he opened his televised briefing on the state’s coronavirus containment efforts. “And they will be getting a significant raise over the next four years.”
By Keith Phaneuf, Jenna Carlesso, CT Mirror
Gov. Ned Lamont reached a deal between the state’s largest health care workers’ union and the nursing home industry late Thursday afternoon that would avert a strike Friday at 26 facilities.
The agreement came two hours after the administration sweetened its offer to fund the industry in the next state budget.
“We have a basic agreement, which is a four-year deal, to put front-and-center our nurses who have been there at the nursing homes taking care of our seniors through thick and thin over the last 14 months,” Lamont said at 4:20 p.m. as he opened his televised briefing on the state’s coronavirus containment efforts. “And they will be getting a significant raise over the next four years.”