By Norm Needleman, State Senator.
Listening Session on Take Back Our Grid Act
On Tuesday, September 8, 2020 at 10:30 a.m., the Energy and Technology Committee will hold a virtual listening session via Zoom on the Take Back Our Grid Act.
If you’d like to testify, register here. Registration will close on Monday, September 7 at 12:00 p.m. Please email written testimony in Word or PDF format to ETTestimony@cga.ct.gov.
Speakers will be limited to 3 minutes of oral testimony. The listening session will be broadcasted live on cable on CT-N and online here.
Stay Safe this Labor Day Weekend
Holiday weekends usually mean people hold gatherings and get together, but the coronavirus pandemic is still here and your celebrations may look a little bit different this year. Holiday weekends mean most parks can get crowded, so if you head out to the trails, make sure to maintain at least 6-feet apart and wear a mask. If you head to someone’s house or are hosting, sit outside and remain six feet from others. Just take some precautions to keep yourself and others around you healthy this holiday.
Precautions to take if booking a rental home or hotel room:
- Check the new guidance of sanitation procedures of where you will be staying ahead of arrival.
- Maintain social distance from those around you.
- Minimize contact with surfaces: tabletops, chairs, bathroom sinks, covers and high-touch surfaces like elevator buttons and door handles.
- Minimize time in enclosed, less ventilated spaced, like elevators.
- Wear a face covering in common areas.
Precautions to take at a barbecue:
- Have everyone bring their own food and plastic utensils.
- Hot dogs and hamburgers should go directly from the grill to a person’s plate, not a big tray of food.
- Different households should sit together, separately from others.
Precautions to take if going camping:
- Find a campground that has few to no people around you. If there are other campers near you, maintain social distancing and wear a face mask.
- Bring your own soap, hand sanitizer, paper towels, surface disinfectants and toilet paper.
- Avoid contact sports.
- Avoid touching high-touch surfaces areas.
