Brookfield has instituted a hiring freeze of new municipal employees, with the exception of those positions that are for health and welfare, such as police officers.  The town is also going to have to look at across the board spending cuts as well.

The new education funding numbers released by Governor Dannel Malloy this month showed that the ECS grant to the town is zeroed out.  That's a loss of $1.5 million.

First Selectman Steve Dunn says the town does have some contingency fund money, but not enough to cover the amount the town may get cut.

Dunn says they have to prepare for that from now, in case funding doesn't change once a budget is approved by the General Assembly.  He added that it will be too late in December to do anything about the cuts.

He says Brookfield lost almost $600,000 in state funding last year.