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Gov. budget chief questioned by local lawmakers

Concerned members of the General Assembly's Finance Committee are grilling Governor Malloy's budget chief. 

 

Brookfield Representative Stephen Harding, whose district also includes the Stony Hill section of Bethel, says his towns will lose out.  While he appreciates that the state is trying to mitigate a large deficit and rightly restructure the Education Cost Sharing formula, doing it on the back of children is wrong. 

 

Wilton Representative Gail Lavielle says municipalities will raise local taxes to make up for proposed state cuts.  She says many community leaders are reeling from the sheer amount of state aid cuts being proposed.

 

Moving some teacher pension costs off onto municipalities was a concern Redding Representative Adam Dunsby, who also serves as Easton First Selectman said one-third is an arbitrary number and questioned why it's not 25 percent.  He wanted to know if the municipal contribution would stay at one-third, or go up to 50 percent.  Budget chief Benjamin Barnes said the number was what the administration thought was a tolerable amount for municipalities, given their significant involvement in setting teacher salaries and hiring teachers.

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