HARTFORD—There’s no better way to understand how the state’s fiscal woes will affect municipal budgets than to hear from the people in charge of them. More than two dozen leaders–mayors and first selectmen–from communities throughout the state were at the Capitol on Tuesday for a roundtable discussion organized by House Republicans. Rolling back a bevy [...]
Democrat-Dominated Panel Ducks Vote on $9 Million Contract Proposal
The state legislature’s Appropriations Committee Thursday abdicated its responsibility to the people of Connecticut when the Democrat-dominated panel declined to vote on a $9 million state employee union contract, state Representative Arthur J. O’Neill, an Appropriations Committee member, said today.
“Although the Appropriations Committee is not obligated to [...]
On Wednesday morning, January 21,2009, House Republican Leader Larry Cafero joined a panel of legislative leaders for discussion on the state budget and how it effects small towns at the Annual Connecticut Town Meeting sponsored by the Connecticut Council of Small Towns (COST). The state budget deficit for the current fiscal year is estimated [...]
Governor M. Jodi Rell’s office has announced her budget office, the Office of Policy and Management, has projected budget deficit for the current fiscal year has now hit $922 million. The income tax, business tax, and sales tax have all collected well under estimated figures.
Governor Rell said in a statement:
“Our state is challenged as never before - and [...]
Jim Amann told the news media this week that he has turned down the cushy job offer from House Speaker Christopher Donovan. News reports said Donovan, a Democrat from Meriden, first offered Amann a $120,000-a-year job just a few days after taking the House speaker post that Amann gave up to focus on his run [...]
That didn’t last very long. Former House Speaker Jim Amann was out of state government for exactly nine days.
The New London Day is reporting that Amann has now been hired by his successor, Speaker Christopher Donovan of Meriden, to serve as an “adviser.”
Amann, who is running for governor, will be paid $120,000 annually for this new post, [...]
TORRINGTON–Selectmen and mayors of Northwest Corner communities are used to tightening their belts in rocky financial times but this year they are more concerned than ever about the threat of diminished state aid. State lawmakers are faced with a massive budget deficit this year and even bigger deficits over the next four to five years. [...]
In another round of ineffective half-measures, the Democratic majority in the General Assembly convened once again to address the growing budget deficit faced by the state. They managed to cut only $131 million from a deficit which may be between $800 million and $1 billion for the current fiscal year according to numbers expected to [...]
During this evening’s session of the State House of Representatives, House Republicans offered an amendment which would cut the salaries of state legislators by 5%, contending that while the citizens of Connecticut are facing pay cuts and layoffs, members of the legislature ought to share in the difficulties created under the current economic downturn and [...]
The State House of Representatives will take up Governor Rell’s plan to mitigate the budget deficit this afternoon. Some of the features of her proposal will delay the creation of a Department of Aging, cut tourism marketing funds, delay new purchases of state vehicles, transfer roughly $100 million from other accounts into the general fund, [...]
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