Total Municipal Aid: How Did Your Town Do? - Hartford Courant Total Municipal Aid: How Did Your Town Do?
Speaker of the House Joe Arisimowicz and House Minority Leader Themis Klarides sum up their views on the budget that passed 126-23 in the House.
State aid to municipalities – which tops $2.6 billion a year – is reduced by more than $30 million in each of the two years of the newly approved budget. The largest reduction is a five-percent across-the-board cut in the first year in educational cost-sharing funds for all but the state’s poorest districts. Much of that money is restored in the second year under a new funding formula, while other municipal grant programs are cut.