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Vermont Business Magazine Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) has been awarded a contract by GlobalFoundries to provide onsite maintenance and operations support for its microprocessors and water fabrication units at GlobalFoundries’ Burlington, Vermont and Fishkill, New York locations. Fluor will book the undisclosed contract value in the second quarter of 2017. The project will be managed through Stork, part of Fluor’s diversified services segment.

Vermont Business MagazineCommunity Care Network and College of StJoseph have partnered to make college more affordable and accessible to CCN employees and their families.The partnership, through CSJ’s corporate cohort program, offers CSJ’s associate, bachelor and graduate programs to CCN employees at a reduced tuition rate. Additionally, CCN has developed a tuition reimbursement program for its employees in tandem with the CSJ agreement.

Vermont Business Magazine Mayor Miro Weinberger, joined by Governor Phil Scott, members of the Vermont Mayors Coalition, and other community leaders, today launched a state-wide coalition – the Vermont Climate Pledge Coalition – to help achieve the December 2015 Paris Climate Agreement pledge by the United States and to mitigate the impact of the Federal government’s recent withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.

Vermont Business Magazine Before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Senate alone held over 100 hearings and roundtables on health reform. Hundreds of amendments were considered by the Senate Finance and HELP Committees during an exhaustive markup process, with 160 amendments by Republican Senators adopted. The process itself stretched for so long – more than a year – in the vain hope that Republicans would come to the table and stay at the table. The final Senate bill included more than 145 Republican-authored amendments. The legislation was posted for nearly a week before the Finance Committee marked up the bill. The same can be said for the HELP Committee. More than 160 hours were spent on this Senate floor in considering the Affordable Care Act. Contrast that with the action of today’s Senate. No hearings. No debate. No process. No score. And as of now, no bill. In the House, and now in the Senate, this charade boils down to bumper sticker politics. It certainly is not a solid, serious, vetted, workable, fair and equitable plan or policy.

Vermont Business Magazine Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) announced Tuesday that Vermont will receive more than $11 million in new affordable housing and community development funds from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Earlier this year, as Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Leahy successfully negotiated the fiscal year 2017 appropriations act, which included funding for HUD, the department responsible for administering the nation’s affordable housing programs, including the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME programs. Vermont will receive approximately $7 million in CDBG funds, $3.4 million in grants from the HOME program and more than $635,000 for homelessness assistance grants.

Vermont Business Magazine The Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation (GBIC) will hold its 63rd Annual Meeting on June 21, 2017 from 5 pm to 7 pm at the Echo Leahy Center on the Burlington Waterfront. Awards will be presented at 6 pm. The meeting is being dedicated to C Harry Behney, former President of GBIC who passed away earlier this year.

Vermont Business MagazineQuébec,Vermontand theState of New Yorktoday announced that they will continue to work together to restore and protect the waters and natural resources of Lake Champlain. Meeting inCrown Point, NY, the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight against Climate Change,David Heurtel, on behalf of the Premier of Québec, together with the Governor ofVermont,Phil Scott, officials from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and representatives from the states ofNew YorkandVermont, joined Monday in the signing ceremony for the fourth edition of the Lake Champlain Action Plan, entitledOpportunities for Action: An Evolving Plan for the Future of Lake Champlain.

Vermont Business MagazineThe University of Vermont was one of three institutions of higher education whose work to address high risk drinking and other substance misuse was honored with a Prevention Excellence Award at the ninth annual Campus Prevention Network Summit in Boston on June 12. The award was presented byEVERFI, Inc., a leading technology innovator. The Campus Prevention Networkis a nationwide initiative of over 1,700 institutions dedicated to creating safer, healthier campus communities.

Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott appointed David Soucy on Monday as Senator for the Rutland District, serving Rutland County. He will serve alongside Senators Peg Flory (R) and Brian Collamore (R).Soucy will be sworn in this week, and was one of three nominees put forward by the Rutland County Republican Committee. He will be participating in the veto session, which beginsWednesday.

Soucy, a resident of Killington, was appointed to fill the seat vacated by former Senator Kevin Mullin (R), who was recently appointed as chair of the Green Mountain Care Board. Keeping with traditional practice when replacing a member of the Legislature, Gov. Scott selected a replacement from the same political party.

Vermont Business MagazineVermont Attorney General TJ Donovan joined a coalition of states in filing alawsuitagainst the USDepartment of Energy (DOE) for failing to publish finalized energy efficiency standards for five products: portable air conditioners, uninterruptible power supplies, air compressors, walk-in coolers and freezers, and commercial packaged boilers.

Vermont Business Magazine DrJoanne Mather Conroy has been selected as the second Chief Executive Officer and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, Board of Trustees Chair Anne-Lee Verville has announced. The appointment was made by a unanimous vote of the Board at a special meeting on June 14.Conroy will assume her role at D-H on August 7,2017.

Vermont Business Magazine The northern New England law firm Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC has adopted a new policy that awards up to 12 weeks of paid leave to new parents. Specifically, the new DRM policy, when combined with its short term disability program, provides up to 12 weeks of paid leave to mothers of newborn children and up to six weeks of leave to fathers and partners of birth mothers, as well as to the parents of adopted children aged 16 and younger. The policy was approved by directors in March and announced by Deputy Managing Partner Peter B Kunin in April.