ual sports.

It also could require

all clubs to operate through
their affiliated schools, under
the direction of district busi-
ness staff, to increase account-
ability and prevent mistakes. It
also could prevent booster
clubs from giving to individual
students, with the exception of
scholarship programs, or from
sending students to outside
camps.
If regulations are enacted,
they could apply to any group
the school designates as an af-
filiated booster club, and the
CIAC could train club officials
in the rules the same way it
trains athletic directors and
coaches, Niehoff said.
Following legal recommen-
dations, officers of the Nau-
gatuck Football Alumni
Association will be required to
attend seasonal training ses-
sions and will account for in-
come and expenses in a central
treasury account maintained
by the school principal, Frank
Johnson Jr., president of the
association, said.
We would like to think we
can continue to help, and we
would help under any guide-
lines they ask us to comply
with, Johnson said.
The club does not have a
board, was never incorporated
and Johnson declined to say
how much money it has raised.
The group has helped buy
equipment for the football
team, paid Pop Warner fees for
children who could not other-
wise afford them and has also
donated to police officers bat-
tling cancer, Johnson said.
Seymours group, the Wild-
cat Kickoff Club, is incorporat-
ed as a nonprofit and raised
about $15,000 last year for the
football program, President In-
grid Conlan said.
The money buys T-shirts
and shorts, after-game meals,
parties and equipment. Every
year, the booster club sends
seniors to events hosted by the
Walter Camp Football Founda-
tion at Yale University. The
club has a charter and bylaws
that prohibit it from giving
money to individual players,
but the principal and athletic
director do not have any say in
how it spends its money.
Personally, I would keep it
separate, because we really
have nothing to do with the
school and we need to keep
those clear lines between what
the school is and what the club
is, Conlan said.
The Torrington High School
Scholastic Athletic Booster Club
supports all athletic programs
at the school through season
ticket sales and concessions at
winter basketball games.
The club raised more than
$6,000 last year and also pays
for uniforms, equipment, din-
ners and awards ceremonies,
said Pat Fairchild, club presi-
dent. Members do not make
purchases without the athletic
directors approval, but there is
no formal requirement that
anyone from the school look
over the groups finances,
Fairchild said. Some sports also
have parent groups that could
be raising more money than the
booster club, Fairchild said.
Fairchild said she was not
sure how her group would re-
act to mandatory training ses-
sions.
If it got to be something that
was a little too much, I think
our group would disband be-
cause its just so informal, she
said.
Chris Sarlo, football coach at
Kennedy High School in Wa-
terbury, runs his teams boost-
er club and said it is perhaps
not succeeding for that reason.
His duties as football coach
prevent him from devoting
much time to the Eagles End-
zone Club, which stopped rais-
ing much money after the
recession hit. Parents and
alumni have not taken on the
responsibility, Sarlo said.
Theres got to be a way that
we can finance our own pro-
gram, Sarlo said. Thats the
way it should be done.
The Oxford High School
Booster Club began to form be-
fore the school opened five
years ago and raises money for
every sport, arts group or other
club associated with the
school. The principal, athletic
director and fine arts chair-
man are all board members,
said President Cathy Prowe.
The club, an incorporated
nonprofit, already has imple-
mented some of the practices
the CIAC might consider for all
booster clubs. School teams
and groups have their own line
items in the booster clubs ac-
count, where they can deposit
money earned from individual
fundraisers. Prowe said the
booster club coordinates
fundraising activities for every
team and group so they are all
successful.
Theres one overseeing
body, Prowe said. If you
have 12 different booster clubs
and they all want to fundraise
at the same time and theyre all
doing a car wash, then theres a
lot of overlap.
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ther, banning the sale of bottled
water, except during emergen-
cies. Starting Jan. 1, it will fine
stores that sell contraband wa-
ter up to $50 per infraction.
Peter Baker, president and
CEO of Watertown-based Crys-
tal Rock water company, said
efforts to ban a healthy product
are misguided.
To put people in a position
of not being able to buy a
healthy product doesnt make
any sense at all, Baker said.
In Connecticut, no town or
city has taken such a drastic
measure as to ban the product
completely, but six municipali-
ties New Haven, Ridgefield,
Easton, Norwalk, West Hart-
ford and Bridgeport have
vowed not to use their own
funds to buy bottled water.
Its sending the right mes-
sage to the public that we have
great public water systems and
to stand up and continue to in-
vest in them long-term, Macon
said.
In New Haven, the in-house
bottled water ban went into ef-
fect last year. Alderman Justin
Elicker, who proposed the idea,
said it has been a success.
THERE ARE MANY REA-
SONS GET RID OF BOTTLED
WATER and almost no reasons
to keep it, said Elicker, citing
environmental concerns and
the high cost of bottled water.
Even the state of Connecticut
is phasing out bottled water in
its offices. It has let many of its
contracts lapse with bottled wa-
ter suppliers, including Crystal
Rock, according to a Corporate
Accountability International
report.
The state has reduced its an-
nual spending on bottled water
by more than $450,000 since
2007 and the Department of
Administrative Services pro-
curement policy requires the
use of tap water over bottled
water.
Environmental groups such as
350 Connecticut also support a
reduction or elimination of
bottled water usage. Bottled wa-
ter generates a large amount of
plastic waste, much of which
cant be recycled or isnt prop-
erly disposed of in the first place.
We certainly support ag-
gressive reductions in the use
of bottled water, as both the
bottling process and the trans-
port of the filled bottles gener-
ate unnecessary greenhouse
gas emissions, said Laura
McMillan, spokeswoman for
350 Connecticut. In addition,
plastic bottles persist in oceans
for years, damaging the health
of marine life.
Further, bottled water may
be less safe than tap water that
is properly treated, according
to Corporate Accountability In-
ternational. Public water is
held to strict regulatory stan-
dards by the Environmental
Protection Agency; private bot-
tled water companies are most-
ly responsible for policing
themselves. Also, there are
concerns that some plastic con-
tainers may introduce carcino-
gens into water.
However, according to the In-
ternational Bottled Water Asso-
ciation, by federal law, the Food
and Drug Administration regu-
lations that cover the safety and
quality of bottled water are just
as stringent as those governing
tap water. Also, the trade asso-
ciation says that bottled water
containers are safe, as theyre
approved by the FDA.
THE FDA HAS DETERMINED
that the containers used by the
bottled water industry are safe
for use with food and beverage
products, including bottled wa-
ter, and that they do not pose a
health risk to consumers, ac-
cording to the International
Bottled Water Associations
website.
Still, bottled water opponents
say the product is many times
more expensive than tap water
and some of the costs are
hidden. Corporate Accountabil-
ity Internationals report says
that the U.S. bottled water mar-
ket requires energy equivalent
to 54 million barrels of oil a
year as much as 2,000 times
the energy required to produce
tap water. Also, the transport of
bottled water across state lines
contributes to pollution.
The New Haven alderman,
Elicker, said he wouldnt sup-
port a measure as extreme as
banning bottled water from
stores. Hed rather see an out-
right ban of soda than water.
But many are eagerly watch-
ing to see if Concord, Mass.s
full-fledged bottled water pro-
hibition works. At Black Eyed
Sallys restaurant in Hartford,
bottled water has been banned
altogether and no one seems
to miss it, said owner James
Varano.
We did ban bottled water,
and by mistake stopped buying
bottled sparkling as well,
Varano said. No one com-
plained, so actually we wont
have any bottled water.
BOTTLED: Efforts to ban healthy
product misguided, local CEO says
Mitchell College in New London.
CEFIA is also partnering with
GreenerU, a private firm in
Waltham, Mass., that works with
colleges and universities to
achieve energy conservation
and green energy goals on cam-
puses nationwide.
Typically the problem is
that, for smaller colleges, these
things cost money, said Bert
Hunter, CEFIAs chief invest-
ment officer. We are providing
$1 million in loans to a ... special
purpose company established
by GreenerU, and it will pro-
vide energy service contracts to
the participating colleges.
Through the savings the col-
leges will derive from the ener-
gy-efficiency measures, they
will make payments to
GreenerU, which will in turn
repay the financing that CEFIA
is making available.
Thats an example of how CE-
FIA can bring in private fund-
ing to make a project possible
by leveraging the roughly $50
million in capital it has raised
mostly from a line item on state
consumers electric bills, as
well as from proceeds of the Re-
gional Greenhouse Gas Initia-
tive. CEFIA also has the ability
to work with the state treasur-
ers office to issue bonds for
some projects.
Before CEFIA was estab-
lished, the Connecticut Clean
Energy Fund relied strictly on
offering grants and rebates as
an incentive for such projects.
In the past, Hunter said,
for every dollar of ratepayer
money we put up, we attracted
a dollar. The focus and intent
(now) is to take that ratepayer
dollar and attract $5 to $10.
CEFIA, Goldberg added, is fi-
nalizing financing and loan ve-
hicles that ... would look to
utilize $15 million of public
money with the intention of ...
attracting upwards of $75 mil-
lion of private capital, a 5-to-1
return on the states investment.
The agency already has is-
sued three or four requests for
proposals that encourage devel-
opers to seek financing instead
of grants for projects, he said.
These competitive opportu-
nities are structured to value
loan and financing projects
over grant and subsidy proj-
ects, he said.
BECAUSE IT HAS GIVEN CEFIA
THE ABILITY TO LEVERAGE
state money with private capital,
the state has set lofty goals that
otherwise would be much more
difficult to achieve. For example,
it has set a goal of weatherizing
80 percent of the states residen-
tial units houses, condos and
apartments by 2030.
Thats a really huge initia-
tive thats going to take a lot of
capital to achieve, Goldberg
said.
Thats capital that cannot
come from ratepayer funds
alone, Hunter added.
Hunter also said letting the
market determine which proj-
ects to finance is important.
What we are not intending to
become is the Fannie Mae of
energy loans, he said. Were
trying to ... make it easier for
capital to come into the market-
place in a mature way.
Many private lenders are re-
luctant to become involved in
energy projects, he said, be-
cause they see the loans as un-
secured and dont understand
the underlying benefits. Using
state funding to reduce a
lenders risk will make it easier
for them to become involved,
Hunter said.
We feel that once they un-
derstand the market and the
technology better, theyll get
comfortable and see this as a
very promising sector where
they can do very good lending
business, he said. Were con-
vinced that the risks are worth
taking and are well balanced.
The Brookings-Rockwell re-
port agrees. It notes that con-
ventional energy sources have
the advantage of built delivery
systems, favorable tax policies,
low marginal costs at existing
generation plants, and vastly
larger scale, as well as funda-
mentally lower costs ....
Because of that, the report
states it is difficult to finance
even small-scale clean-energy
projects, even ones with little
technology risk, without some
form of governmental or other
financial support that make the
projects cost competitive.
It then cites CEFIA as one
possible model for making low-
cost financial assistance avail-
able for such projects.
Daniel Esty, commissioner of
the state Department of Energy
and Environmental Protection,
said the new agency and its fi-
nancing ability are a step away
from the states past clean-en-
ergy efforts.
The way that money has
been deployed in the energy
arena hasnt produced good re-
sults, he said. Its an attempt
to harness private capital and to
shift from the government try-
ing to pick winners.
He added that the state is very
excited about being considered
a breakthrough model.
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Jugs of bottled water move along an assembly line inside the plant at Crystal Rock in Watertown
on Thursday.
That may not be swift. Build-
ing a clearer picture of what
happened will take more time
and possibly more people, U.S.
officials said Friday, speaking
on condition of anonymity be-
cause they were not authorized
to discuss the ongoing investi-
gation publicly.
Intelligence officials are re-
viewing telephone and radio in-
tercepts, computer traffic,
satellite images and other clues
from the days before the at-
tacks the kinds of material
routinely gathered in a conflict
zone where al-Qaida affiliates
are known to operate and
Libyan law enforcement has
made some arrests. But investi-
gators have found no evidence
pointing conclusively to a par-
ticular group or to indicate the
attack was planned, White
House spokesman Jay Carney
said, adding, This is obviously
under investigation.
Early indications suggest
the attack was carried out not
by the main al-Qaida terror
group but al-Qaida sympa-
thizers, said a U.S. intelli-
gence official, speaking on
condition of anonymity be-
cause he was not authorized
to discuss the investigation
publicly.
One of the leading suspects
is the Libyan-based Islamic
militant group Ansar al-Shari-
ah, led by former Guantanamo
detainee Sufyan bin Qumu.
The group denied responsibili-
ty in a video Friday but did ac-
knowledge its fighters were in
the area during what it called a
popular protest at the con-
sulate, according to Ben Ven-
zke of the IntelCenter, a
private analysis firm that mon-
itors Jihadist media for the
U.S. intelligence community.
The U.S. had been watching
threat assessments from Libya
for months but none offered
warnings of the Benghazi at-
tack, according to another in-
telligence official who spoke
on condition of anonymity be-
cause he was not authorized to
speak publicly about U.S. intel-
ligence matters.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine,
questioned whether the con-
sulate had taken sufficient se-
curity measures, given an
attempt to attack the consulate
in Benghazi a few months ago.
Carney said that given the
9/11 anniversary, security had
been heightened.
It was, unfortunately, not
enough, he said.
LIBYA: al-Qaida sympathizers suspected
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaks during the Transfer of Remains
Ceremony on Friday at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking
the return to the United States of the remains of the four
Americans killed last week in Benghazi, Libya.
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