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CEMA
For the first time, we now have a dedicated website for CEMA's annual Golf Outing. After last year's highly successful outing at the PGA course TPC River Highlands in Cromwell where we had 138 players, members said they wanted to go to the Foxwoods course, Lake of Isles, in 2018. Our event will be held on Monday, May 7.
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CEMA
The pre-buy moratorium ends this Saturday, March 31. Thereafter you can offer and collect pre-buy heating fuel contracts and payments, until the moratorium kicks in again in November. As always the moratorium has not affected budget plans or budget payments, so long as those budget payments are spread out over the year without deposits loaded upfront, so that they don't act like pre-buys. This pre-buy moratorium was enacted as a result of isolated incidents where retailers have gone out of business, still owing customers for deliveries paid with pre-buy money.
PMAA via CEMA
Congress approved a $1.3 trillion spending bill which would fund the government through the end of the fiscal year on September 30. The bill includes funding for: fencing on the U.S. border with Mexico; combatting opioid addiction; building roads and strengthens background checks for guns.
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CEMA
Registration is fully open for the Eastern Energy Expo, May 20-23 at Foxwoods Resort Casino. Full information can be found on their website. Featured events include a Women in Energy track; OESP's Care to Ride and golf outing; Hospitality Night; and a keynote by Major Dan Rooney on "A Patriot's Calling, Living between Faith and Fear." Attending the trade show itself is free for non-vendors. In addition, there are several days of business sessions for owners and management; and technical sessions put together by OESP, for service professionals.
NEFI via CEMA
Reminder! A recent rule by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) requires the use of seat belts by all passengers riding in a commercial motor vehicle (CMV). NEFI has learned that the new requirement issued in August 2016 is being enforced at roadside inspections.
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CEMA
The gas utility tariffs for April 2018 are in. You can compare these rates to your own prices. Gas delivered commodity prices were slightly compared to last month, on average 4 cents lower than March. The utility tariffs published for April below are expressed in heating oil gallon equivalents, and so present gas rates on a British thermal unit (Btu) to Btu equivalent basis with heating oil.
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CEMA
CEMA associate member Belpointe Asset Management, LLC is offering members a complimentary luncheon at the Baci Grill in Cromwell, Connecticut, starting at noon on April 26. You are invited to join us for an educational session with lunch, at no cost. They will discuss an important issue regarding retirement plans.
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CEMA
CEMA is now an Aflac agent through CEMA Member Services Coordinator Nickey Kollie (nickey@ctema.com). Here's an update on an useful resource available from Aflac. With the changing health care environment, your job is more challenging than ever.
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CEMA
For nearly three decades, CEMA associate member Gray, Gray & Gray's Energy has conducted a heating industry survey that has has allowed them to provide a "snapshot" of the retail oil and propane industry, helping to establish industry benchmarks and the standards by which company performance is measured.
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Federated Insurance via CEMA
The distracted driving epidemic continues to wreak havoc on our nation’s highways. In 2016, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported more than 2,000,000 injuries. Worse yet, they counted 37,461 deaths related to motor vehicle traffic crashes on U.S. roadways. The death toll is rising 5-8 percent annually and there is no end in sight.
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Federated Insurance via CEMA
The "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act," which was passed by Congress in December 2017, made significant changes to individual, business and estate taxes, and became effective as of Jan. 1, 2018. While the business related provisions are considered permanent, the individual and estate tax provisions only remain in effect until Dec. 31, 2025, when they are subject to a "sunset" and will revert back to 2017 law.
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Foley Carrier Services
Last month the Department of Transportation (DOT) announced some changes to the federal drug testing panel. These changes, which were made to address our nation's growing opioid crisis, will provide for a more comprehensive drug screen by including synthetic opioids as part of the standard test. Previously, these substances were only included on optional, expanded panel screens.
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Westfair Online
Several bills designed to improve workers' lives — including one that would raise the state’s minimum wage from $10.10 to $15 an hour by 2021 and index it to keep pace with inflation — have been approved by the Connecticut Labor and Public Employees Committee.
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The Hour
State Sen. Len Suzio, R-Meriden, is critizing Connecticut's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority for failing to take adequate action to protect consumers from a billing problem involving Eversource Energy and The United Illuminating Co. Suzio called PURA's commissioners "toothless watchdogs," after the regulatory agency issued a draft ruling requiring that minor changes be made to customers bills.
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The Connecticut Mirror
A coalition of Connecticut construction businesses and trades launched a new advertising campaign Wednesday to press for a major state investment in transportation. And though the text of the new ads from Move CT Forward — which are airing on television, radio and online — don't specifically endorse establishing tolls and raising gasoline taxes — one of the key sponsors of this coalition is backing Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposals to do both.
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CT News Junkie
Unable to find enough support for a bill that would immediately allow tolls to be constructed on Connecticut's highways, the Transportation Committee approved a bill that would create a two-step process. The first step in the process would be directing the Transportation Department to conduct an environmental study.
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