2005 Formal Opinions

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• The Honorable Donald E. Williams, Senate President Pro Tempore and the Honorable Martin M. Looney, Senate Majority Leader, 2005-019 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  This letter is in response to your request for a formal legal opinion as to whether Executive Order No. 7 (the "Order") establishing a State Contracting Standards Board (the "Board") is unconstitutional, in whole or in part, as a violation of the separation of powers clause of article second of the state Constitution.

• The Honorable James T. Fleming Commissioner, 2005-018 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  You have asked several questions about the propriety of a possible transaction between the Department of Public Works ("DPW") and the Eastern Connecticut State University Foundation, Inc. ("Foundation") whereby the DPW would agree via a lease/purchase agreement to purchase the "Foster building" in Willimantic, Connecticut, which was donated by the Foster family to the Foundation on or about December 15, 2000.

• Brian Sigman, Executive Director, Board of Education and Services for the Blind, 2005-017 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  You have asked whether the Board of Education and Services for the Blind ("BESB") has the authority under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-303 to seek to provide all the food services that Central Connecticut State University ("CCSU") determines are desirable at the University if BESB decides it wants to pursue that location for the placement of blind vendor operated food service facilities.