A major Wall Street credit rating agency warned Wednesday that federal tax changes could undermine Connecticut cities and towns’ property tax receipts. Continue Reading →
Wall Street firm says federal tax limits could hurt CT towns
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Connecticut Conference of Municipalities
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CCM backs plan to revitalize CT — despite risk to local aid
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Despite a proposal that could jeopardize state aid in the coming years, the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities has endorsed the full report of the Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth, arguing it offers more long-term benefits for the state and its communities. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, ccm, Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, municipal aid, sales tax
Town leaders: Further reform needed for pensions, school funding
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Municipal leaders urged a state study panel Tuesday to support further restrictions on public-sector pensions, ending collective bargaining for retirement benefits and aggressively redistributing education aid from communities losing students to those gaining them. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, Politics, ccm, Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, Connecticut Council of Small Towns, Connecticut state budget, COST
Municipal lobby deserts House Dems on sales tax plan
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One of the leading municipal advocates says the House Democrats’ plan to boost the sales tax to aid cities and towns is flawed — and would be opposed by most mayors and first selectmen. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, budget2017, ccm, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, sales tax
Cities, towns ask state leaders in TV ad, ‘Are you listening?’
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The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities is pressing state officials to deliver a budget that protects cities and towns, unveiling a television commercial Monday that suggests the legislature’s inaction could cost people their homes. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, budget2017, ccm, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities
CCM again pushes its sweeping plan as budget talks intensify
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As state budget negotiations intensify, the organization that represents Connecticut’s cities and towns is doubling down on a sweeping financial plan unveiled earlier this year. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, ccm, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities
Bill to give towns more time to pass budget bogs down in Senate
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State legislators sparred for the second day in a row Wednesday over whether to give communities more time to adopt their local budgets — a fight that left the extension issue in limbo after a 90-minute Senate debate. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, Politics, budget2017, ccm, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities
No one wants a share of CT’s teacher pension bill
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Municipalities and hospitals both fear the new cost burdens they would assume in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget would grow quickly as state retirement benefit costs surge in the coming years. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, Health Care, Politics, ccm, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, Connecticut Council of Small Towns, Connecticut Hospital Association, Connecticut state budget
Malloy proposes easing mandates on cities and towns
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy unveiled a plan Tuesday to ease municipal mandates, including tighter wage standards on construction projects and greater flexibility in property assessments. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, K-12, Labor, Politics, Regional Planning, Schools/Child Welfare, ccm, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities
CCM: Pair sales tax hike, bargaining changes to bolster cities, towns
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Connecticut’s cities and towns unveiled a sweeping financial plan Wednesday that included a major sales tax boost to aid communities, new regionalization incentives and collective bargaining changes. The bargaining changes would be designed to ensure new revenue for towns would not be used to boost wages and benefits for municipal workers. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, K-12, Labor, Regional Planning, Schools/Child Welfare, AFL-CIO, binding arbitration, ccm
Towns watching grant cut as harbinger of things to come
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Connecticut’s municipal leaders are watching closely to see how swiftly —if at all — lawmakers and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy release $30 million in promised-yet-withheld capital improvement funds for cities and towns once the new legislative session gets underway. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, Politics, ccm, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, Connecticut Council of Small Towns, Connecticut state budget, COST, Local Capital Improvement Program
CT’s fiscal woes could mean higher municipal borrowing costs
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A major Wall Street credit rating agency warned Thursday that Connecticut’s state budget woes and “dim economic growth” could make it more costly for its cities and towns to get credit. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, ccm, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, Connecticut state budget, municipal aid, S&P Global Ratings, Wall Street
CCM tries to increase fall campaigns’ focus on urban poverty
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Connecticut’s urban centers are shackled by unemployment, homelessness and other poverty indicators that dwarf those of surrounding suburbs, the state’s chief municipal lobbying group wrote Monday in a bulletin to state legislative candidates. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, Politics, Bridgeport, ccm, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury
Municipalities say CT’s property tax system is unsustainable
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Just days after a landmark state court ruling found Connecticut’s education funding system to be “irrational and unconstitutional,” the chief lobbying group for cities and towns issued a new research paper calling the municipal property tax system “unsustainable.” Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy, K-12, Politics, Schools/Child Welfare, ccm, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, property tax, sales tax
Towns will craft their own plan to regionalize, ease local tax burden
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As state officials increase their warnings that municipal aid may be curtailed in the coming years, Connecticut’s cities and towns will craft their own plan to regionalize services and make local government more efficient. Continue Reading →