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FIN Committee Hearing Transcript for 03/15/2021 1 MARCH 15, 2021 ib/rr FINANCE, REVENUE & BONDING 9:00 A.M. COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS: Senator John Fonfara, Representative Sean Scanlon SENATORS: Cabrera, Cassano, Cohen, Formica, Hwang, Maroney, Martin, Moore, Needleman, Slap, Witkos REPRESENTATIVES: Barry, Borer, Butler, Carney, Chafee, Cheeseman, Concepcion, Devlin, Doucette, Elliott, Farrar, Hall, Hampton, Hennessy, Kavros DeGraw, Klarides-Ditria, Lemar, Mastrofrancesco, Meskers, Miller, Mushinsky, Nuccio, Paolillo, Perillo, Perone, Phipps, Piscopo, Polletta, Sanchez, Santiago, Stafstrom, Wood K., Wood T., Yaccarino, Ziogas, Zullo, Zupkus REP. SCANLON (98TH): Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the March 15th Public Hearing of the Finance Revenue and Bonding Committee. My name is Sean Scanlon. I'm the House Chair of that Committee. Wondering if my Co-chair Senator Fonfara has any remarks this morning before we get started? SENATOR FONFARA (1ST): Good morning. REP. TERRIE (141ST): Good, good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good, good. Good. SENATOR FONFARA (1ST): That was weird. Just wanted to say that if what you've told me, Mr. Chairman, in terms of number of people have signed up, if that's accurate, I would ask our members in particular, to refrain themselves or restrain themselves, whichever. 2 MARCH 15, 2021 ib/rr FINANCE, REVENUE & BONDING 9:00 A.M. COMMITTEE Today, you always have access to folks, if you needed to, and I would hope that your questions are something that you feel are absolutely necessary. And maybe even more importantly, your comments. And that goes for yours truly, as well that we try to limit ourselves today as much as possible, or else, you probably may see this time with a PM instead of an AM, after it. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. REP. SCANLON (98TH): Thank you, Senator. And as the Senator just alluded to, to our members this morning and to the public, we have over 300 people who have signed up to testify this morning on these Bills. I don't have to tell any of you that we are in session tomorrow. I know these public hearings have a tendency to go on much longer than they probably would, if we were all together in person. We're doing the best. We have an amazing Administrator and Tom Spinella, our clerk; Christina Penn, who have been doing incredible work behind the scenes to prepare us for all these hearings. But, obviously, today is going to be a challenge. And so to the sense that you can limit what you're saying would be helpful to us, don't want to stifle anybody from asking any questions or saying their piece. That's your right as a duly elected Representative or Senator. But just asking folks to help us try to get through today. A lot of the testimony will be repetitive, a lot of the people who have signed up are either for or against it. I'm sure all of us will become very familiar with the most prevalent arguments within an hour or so for each of these Bills. And if we can try to maintain some semblance of just rolling, that would be helpful. As we have done in all our public hearings, we will limit member interactions with witnesses to five minutes per member. And, obviously, the public is 3 MARCH 15, 2021 ib/rr FINANCE, REVENUE & BONDING 9:00 A.M. COMMITTEE limited to three minutes. So with that any comments from Representative Cheeseman or Senator Martin before we get going? REP. CHEESEMAN (37TH): No, just a kudos to everybody for keeping all the balls in the air and let's get the show on the road. REP. SCANLON (98TH): Thank you. All right. Mr. Spinella. THOMAS SPINELLA: Yeah, yep. REP. SCANLON (98TH): Take us where we got to go. Number one is Audrey Patterson. She is in the room. She should be ready to go. AUDREY PATTERSON: Okay, good morning. REP. SCANLON (98TH): Good morning, Audrey. Go ahead. AUDREY PATTERSON: Hello. I just want to make sure you can hear me. REP. SCANLON (98TH): Yes, ma'am. AUDREY PATTERSON: It's a beautiful day. Good afternoon, Senator (Barela) and Representative Scanlon. And the Distinguished Members of the Finance Revenue Bonding Committee. My name is Audrey Patterson, I live in Vernon, Connecticut. I have been a Program Aide a Whole Life for 31 years. I have worked on a similar position at Network Inc. for almost 11 years. I'm here today to testify in support of Senate Bill 821 and at House Bill 6187. At Whole Life and Network, I work with people with mental and physical disabilities. I enjoy my work because I make a difference in other people's lives. I have developed very close relationships with individuals 4 MARCH 15, 2021 ib/rr FINANCE, REVENUE & BONDING 9:00 A.M. COMMITTEE I care for. I really enjoy working with them to develop life skills and help them with -- to live a quality life. We provide care for Connecticut's most vulnerable and forgotten population. We aid our individuals but everything from feeding to totality, to even end of life care. Group home workers are the bedrock of the population that the state has forgotten, and that includes their caregivers as well because I feel forgotten. We are paid barely enough to survive on and most deals with such low staffing that we worked ourselves to a breaking point. This, of course, as you would know, impacts the quality of care we are able to provide for our individuals. When we are exhausted and stressed out about how we are going to put food on our tables and keep lights on, it is very difficult to provide the type of compassionate care these individuals need. Short staffing only perpetuates this issue. With appropriate levels of funding, group homes would be able to make -- will be able to pay their staff living wages. This would turn help to hire additional staff, which would then lighten the load on the existing staff. This is the simplest thing possible. We simply need to make the decision as a -- THOMAS SPINELLA: 30 seconds warning, 30 seconds warning. AUDREY PATTERSON: Even the bonds of the service we appropriate. In order to do this, we need them the rate -- we need to raise revenue, it is not acceptable to cut the funding of other central services in order for our -- all central services, one of the richest states in the country we can afford to fund all services appropriately. Please pass Senate Bill 821, House Bill 6187. Thank you. 5 MARCH 15, 2021 ib/rr FINANCE, REVENUE & BONDING 9:00 A.M. COMMITTEE REP. SCANLON (98TH): Thank you very much, Ms. Patterson, for being with us this morning. I don't see any questions. So we're going to move on to witness number two or whoever is next in the room. THOMAS SPINELLA: Yep. John Lee. JOHN LEE: Great, thank you so much. Thank you to Senator Fonfara, Representative Scanlon, Senator Martin, Representative Cheeseman and the Distinguished Members of the Finance Revenue and Bonding Committee. My name is John Lee. I live in New Haven and I'm an organizer with New Haven Rising and a member of the Recovery for All Coalition. I'm testifying in strong support of HB 6187 and SB 821. I work for the education nonprofit LEAP in the [inaudible] neighborhoods. I graduated from Yale in 2018, and I currently live in the Edgewood neighborhood. Working for LEAP, I have the privilege alongside 16 incredible New Haven high school and college students. We mentoring care for our 100 children, ages seven to 12. Our children are resilient despite their circumstances, underfunded school programs, the lack of safe spaces to play and just be kids, strained finances at home from decades of systemic racism and beyond. As I bike from LEAP office in Fair Haven through downtown New Haven to [inaudible] every day, the disparity and care for basic infrastructures intense -- huge shifts in the quality of simple things like road maintenance are visible and emblematic of the fact that equal opportunity does not exist for our children. If you recognize this, you seem willing to address intense disparity with action, especially those who hold wealth and power. 6 MARCH 15, 2021 ib/rr FINANCE, REVENUE & BONDING 9:00 A.M. COMMITTEE Throughout the past fall, kids like King Robinson often told me they were hungry and asked for more snacks. We had animal crackers to feed them. Some of our kids like Maya and Kylie was so hungry, they told counselors that being hungry was causing them to disrupt class and get into fights. This pain me when I remembered that a mile away, a luxurious buffet style your dining halls where you see [my fill 00:08:40] and watch plenty of food go to waste. This spring, I'm grateful that we were able to implement an after-school supper program for our five LEAP sites, feeding 300 kids daily meals with entrees vegetables and fruits. This supper program is state-funded and has real benefits for our kids. They can enjoy a meal, focus in class run around and have fun. But something as simple as this wasn't something other LEAP staff members had previously thought of as possible. I think it's just one example of how we perceive or assumed scarcity in New Haven, how we assume there isn't enough to go around. Anyway, reality, that's just not true. There are an abundance of resources and wealth in our city and our state. It's just a mask and sat on by a few institutions and individuals.
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