The State Bond Commission meeting scheduled for July 28, 2006 has been cancelled.

There will be a special meeting of the State Bond Commission on Friday August 11, 2006 at 10:30 a.m. in Room 1-E of the Legislative Office Building.

Senate Appropriations Subcommittee News

July 18, 2006 - Washington, D.C. – The Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appopriations Subcommittee today approved their spending bill for fiscal year 2007. $272M for EETT has been placed back into the 2007 by the Senate. We're half-way there...now it’s back to the House where we will need to convince the conference committee to “level fund” the program.

Minutes of EETT Bidder's Conference Available

If you were not able to attend the Bidder's Conference on July 14th @ ACES, there is a second conference scheduled for August 8th @ CREC from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. If you would like a copy of the minutes taken at the July meeting, call me (860) 713-6553 or send a request via e-mail.

CECA represented at Senator Lieberman's Press Conference

Nina Hansen (just retired and former president of CECA) represented CT at the Washington press conference sponsored by Senator Lieberman supporting the reinstatement of EETT. In addition to the article below sent to us by SETDA, here are links to additional articles sent to us by Nina. Article 1, Article 2, Article 3

Nina (left), ISTE's CEO, Don Knezek and Senator Lieberman