Democratic and Republican mayors from the state’s largest cities will hold a press conference Friday morning at the capitol to blast Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget.
According to the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, the mayors will discuss Gov. Malloy’s “proposed complicated and unprecedented changes in the structure of state aid grants to cities and town, as presented in the Governor’s proposed budget.
CCM says that municipalities risk “losing $86 million in state aid that helps fund non-education operating expenses. State aid has been diverted to education and capital programs.”
“The impact of the proposed elimination the property tax on motor vehicles, without providing any state funding reimbursement to municipalities – that would result in at least a $520 million loss in local revenues annually.”
Among the mayors attending Pedro Segarra, Mayor of Hartford, William Finch, Mayor of Bridgeport, Mark Boughton, Mayor of Danbury, Neil O’Leary, Mayor of Waterbury and John DeStefano, Jr., Mayor of New Haven.
The mayors will speak at 11:30 Friday morning at the Legislative Office Building.
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Soon after, Malloy and/or his lackeys will respond strongly, calling the mayors misinformed and otherwise insulting their intelligence, just as they have done to any opposition in the past.
That’s how they do it in the Obamanation.
Ha!
Rut Roh- trouble in river city. The Governor is getting called out on his shell game with the spending cap.
When it comes to new and ingenious ways to increase spending with money we don’t have, you can’t beat a Democrat.
‘beat a democrat’. Sounds like fun
Behave yourself.
I was talking about Democrats, rally/billy/jimmy/susan. You’re a Tory. Even democrats can be accused of being patriotic and loving America. Not true of Tories
>>‘beat a democrat’. Sounds like fun
Yeah but in this state it’s too much like whack-a-mole.
What the mayors have to understand is the ‘power-grab’ effect of the proposals….without automobile taxes going directly to the towns, the towns become more dependent on state for the ‘give-backs’, which allows the state to increase taxes to accomplish the power grab and decide which towns get the money….
Some towns, anyway. I could picture certain wealthier suburbs having “eff you” money.
Yeah, as much as I griped about my vehicle taxes, somebody — wish I could remember for certain who it was — pointed out to me that in Hartford, that might be the most significant piece of property that the majority of people with any money own. Compared to West Hartford we might be screwed.
(Thoughts welcome)