Resident Trooper Funding, Town Aid Road Money Concerns for Local Leaders at Budget Forum
Rep. Larry Cafero on Friday met with local leaders from the district he represents during a forum at the Capitol designed to give legislators a better idea of the budgetary problems municipal officials are dealing with in this sour economic climate. It was the second budget forum hosted by House Republicans, and Cafero noted that [...]
Cafero, House Republicans Hold Forum with Municipal Officials
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 [...]
House and Senate GOP Call for Budget Action During Special Session
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCBuYmCfX9M&hl=en] Republican budget proposal will protect municipal state aid, fund Early Reading Success, encourage small business growth and reduce state gas taxes Amid skyrocketing gasoline prices, worsening economic indicators and pleas for help from taxpayers, educators, nursing homes, private providers, public housing authorities, Mayors and First Selectmen; Legislative Republicans today reintroduced their alternative budget proposal [...]
House Republicans Offer GOP Budget on House Floor
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJlKLVA_Lec&hl=en] This evening House Republicans offered the GOP alternative budget on the floor of the House as an amendment to HB 5617, An Act Making Revisions to the Charter Oak Health Plan. Majority Leader Chris Donovan suggested that the amendment was not germane to the bill, to which Deputy Speaker Robert Godfrey, currently in the chair, [...]
Republicans Offer Alternative Budget
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qND_aJYO8Xs&hl=en] Today House and Senate Republicans offered a balanced alternative budget proposal that cuts state gas taxes, eliminates a business tax, and offers thousands of stae employees an early retirement plan that will reduce spending by $163 million next year according to the non-partisan Office of Fiscal Analysis. The plan balances taxes and spending, does [...]
