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Representatives Perillo, Miller and Senator Kelly React to PerkinElmer Layoffs
State Representatives Jason Perillo (R-113), Larry Miller (R-122) and State Senator Kevin Kelly (R-21) today expressed disappointment at the announcement that Shelton’s PerkinElmer would layoff seventy-five employees. The manufacturing company, headquartered in Waltham Massachusetts, announced the layoffs in conjunction with the moving the manufacturing of some of their product lines from Connecticut to sites in Singapore and the United Kingdom.
The layoffs are schedules to take place in the latter half of 2012 and into 2013. PerkinElmer employs five hundred people in the Town of Shelton, and the news sent shockwaves through the valley community at the end of last week.
The legislators jointly sent a letter to Department of Labor Commissioner Glen Marshall on Friday afternoon expressing their concerns over the layoffs, and requesting that the department’s Rapid Response Team be dispatched to educate the displaced workers about job search assistance, unemployment benefits and training opportunities.
They also expressed concerns that the entire Shelton-based PerkinElmer manufacturing operation may be in jeopardy of being moved overseas which would result in a devastating loss of jobs and hardship to families in the area.
Roll back taxes in 2012
Opinion by Rep. Jason Perillo
If Connecticut state government is remembered for one thing in 2011, it will be the incredible new tax burden thrust upon the middle class following the passage of Governor Malloy’s budget – the largest tax increase in state history. Among the most painful taxes was new income tax rates signed into law in May but made unfairly retroactive to January 1, 2011.
These retroactive taxes were confusing for residents and businesses and resulted for some in a huge sum of money coming due during the holiday season due to payroll problems processing the unusual retroactive withholdings.
Many of my constituents were understandably upset to discover this unexpected, additional financial burden just before Christmas and Hanukah, all thanks to the state’s overspending.
To add insult to injury, state budget analysts are now projecting an $83.7 million surplus for fiscal year 2012 which was largely funded by those same retroactive tax increases.
This multi-million dollar surplus was created through over-taxation and done so at a time when Connecticut families can afford it the least.
Highway Designated in Honor of Police Sergeant Orville Smith
SHELTON- State Representative Jason Perillo joined Mayor Mark Lauretti and Police Chief Joel Hurliman this morning before a crowd of local residents and police officers as the Police Sergeant Orville Smith Memorial Highway was officially unveiled.
The dedication comes fifteen months after Sergeant Smith was killed in the line of duty while directing traffic at the intersection of Route 110 and Indian Well Road during a holiday fireworks display. Sergeant Smith was standing near a marked police cruiser with emergency lights flashing when he was struck by a vehicle, driven by an alleged drunk driver that veered onto the shoulder of the road.
Smith was also a volunteer firefighter and a former Marine.
Perillo:Legislature Restores Low-Income Heating Funds
State Representative Jason Perillo (R-113), a member of the legislature’s budget-writing Appropriations Committee, expressed relief this week that the committee had chosen to restore funding to the state’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Plan (LIHEAP) in joint action with the Energy and Human Services Committees.
The restoration was unanimous and bi-partisan, as the legislative panels changed Governor Malloy’s recommendations on the distribution of a federal block grant for the program.
“Governor Malloy proposed providing heating assistance only to those eligible state residents who use home heating oil or propane to heat their homes,” said Rep. Perillo. “Unfortunately, that excludes roughly 80,000 families that were able to receive the assistance when we provided it last winter just because they use natural gas, electricity or some other means of heat generation. We felt it was far too risky to leave so many families literally out in the cold this winter. Thankfully, support for this was unified, across party-lines and unanimous.”
