Recently I was asked by Governor Rell serve on a municipal mandate relief commission to help with the growing budget crisis in Hartford. Our charge was to develop a list of unfunded mandates that are passed along to cities and towns by the state and present them to the Legislature [...]
The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities has come out strongly against Gov. M. Jodi Rell's proposal to cut $84 million in the middle of the fiscal year in state aid for cities and towns.
CCM submitted the following written testimony to the budget-writing appropriations committee during a public hearing Wednesday that lasted [...]
From nursing home operators to the mentally ill, more than 300 people spoke at the state Capitol complex Wednesday on a snowy day to protest Rell's proposed budget cuts on a wide variety of services.
The crowd was so large that the budget-writing appropriations committee took the rare' [...]
There is no consensus yet on Gov. M. Jodi Rell's municipal panel of mayors on her proposal to cut $84 million for cities and towns in the current fiscal year.
Rell has called for a special session on December 15, but it is unclear whether the Democratic-controlled legislature will take any [...]
Chief elected officials from 10 cities and towns will meet for the first time Thursday morning to talk about how to cut $84 million in municipal aid.
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Chief elected officials from 10 cities and towns will meet for the first time Thursday morning to talk about how to cut $84 million in municipal aid.
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The absurdest play known as the state budget shifted to House Speaker Chris Donovan, D-Meriden, who responsed, finally, to Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s proposal to cut $466 million from the current plan, including $84 million in aid to cities and towns.
Update: from -Connpolitics.tv (WTNH)
Update 2: More on the cuts headed to cities and towns
Update 3: State’s Budget Problem: No Money -Connecticut Local Politics
For those who missed this morning’s “In Our Opinion” on that bastion of conservatism, the Norwich Bulletin, they gave another run down on Connecticut’s sorry financial [...]
The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities is out with a new radio commercial that seeks to block state-aid cuts for cities and towns.
Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell is asking the Democratic-controlled legislature to cut back aid by 3 percent, which amounts to $84 million for the municipalities. Rell has called a [...]
It's official.
The state's planned cut in the sales tax will not take effect January 1. Many legislators had predicted that the contingent tax cut would never happen because of the continuing weakness in the economy.
But the blocking of the tax cut did not become official until the state comptroller certified - [...]
