UPDATE: ctmirror.org/story/13139/cities-win-state-employees-lose-budget-deal
The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, an advocacy group on behalf of cities and towns, says Bridgeport is slated to lose nearly $1 million in state funding for the budget year that begins July 1 if Governor Dannel Malloy’s Plan B is implemented following a dramatic rejection of proposed union concessions by state workers. The General Assembly is meeting today in special session to take up Malloy’s proposed cuts.
Malloy has said his cuts will not mess with education funding this budget year (wait until next year!) with municipal budget years set to start July 1. The cuts to municipalities would come in the form of Town Aid Road grants, payments in lieu of taxes for state property, and colleges and hospital reimbursements. CCM calculates the cut to Bridgeport at $907,069 and could be higher. CCM sent this letter to legislators urging rejection of Malloy’s cuts.
The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities urges you to reject (1) the over $54 million in municipal aid cuts proposed by the Governor in each year of the biennium, and (2) the proposed elimination of the municipal‐aid exemption from existing or enhanced gubernatorial rescission authority.
Virtually every town and city has adopted their FY12 budget, set a tax rate, and sent tax bills out in the mail. Hometown CT relied on the municipal aid in the Adopted State Budget.
See the attached for some of the town‐by‐town impacts of the proposed municipal aid cuts. Please note that the town‐by‐town impacts of about $30 million in proposed cuts were not provided.
The proposed cuts include a 50% cut in Town Aid Road grants (‐$15 million) and 5% cuts in PILOT State Property and in PILOT Colleges and Hospital reimbursements (‐$9.4 million). The proposed TAR cut comes on the heels of one of CT’s worst winters that decimated town snow‐removal budgets. The PILOT cuts would hurt our poorest cities and towns that host state‐mandated tax exempt property. Such property benefits regions and the state as a whole but the host communities take the tax loss hit. The cut list goes on to include elimination of Interdistrict (Non‐Sheff) Cooperation funding (‐$7.2 million), elimination of After School Programs (‐$4.5 million), Priority School Districts (‐$4 million), as well as cuts to Charter Schools (‐$1.8 million), and elimination of funding for Tourism Districts (‐$1.7 million), etc.
CCM urges you to protect the towns and cities and the residential and business property taxpayers in your legislative district. Reject these proposed cuts in municipal aid and protect the municipal aid exemption from gubernatorial rescission authority.
A full list of cuts to municipalities here.
Watch for Mayor Moonbeam to run his reelection based on he didn’t raise taxes. Then he will institute a mid-year mini tax. Typical Bill “Bait and Switch” ploy.
Malloy said everyone in the state would be sharing the pain. The only ones sharing any kind of pain are the taxpayers …
Most people saw this coming and warned of it. however the lemming voters chose to pull their usual handle. This time they will be hurt even though they may not have paid taxes to the DRS. Sales tax, clothing tax, liquor tax and decreased medicaid payments. When those without skin in the game start to be hurt maybe and only maybe will the politicians change. Until the people have direct control in their life, instead of letting career politicians live their lives the people will continue to suffer. My one hope is that someday they will no longer suffer in silence.
If you look at the list, we made out a lot better than Hartford or New Haven with a larger population.
Bridgeport is going to get hit with a close shave. Oh Schick!
HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will order up to an additional 1,000 layoffs and abandon plans to cut $54 million in aid to Connecticut’s cities, aides and legislative officials said Thursday afternoon.
The decision comes amid a flurry of last-minute maneuvering as majority Democrats in the Legislature take up Malloy’s requests for unprecedented authority to deal with the state’s $1.6 billion deficit and to cut back on state workers’ benefits.
That didn’t last too long
It’s Politics 101. The art of cutting a deal.
Piss off and lay off the union members if you have to but leave the cities alone. Let the workers know they are in this by themselves.
Then cut back services where the public will know it. Close state parks. Close Motor Vehicle offices on Saturday or an additional day during the week. Get the public mad at the workers and not the governor.
If I had a dog that looked like Bill Finch, I’d shave its ass and teach it to walk backwards …
Once again, liberalism is a mental disorder. If it weren’t for the moonbats and corruption in Bpt, this tax and spend liberal would not be in office.
*** High & tight from now on? *** Tip @ your own risk! ***