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Back in Connecticut, and the focus now switches to Hartford and state issues.
The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities released it's legislative agenda - the annual wish list - of items they are hoping the governor and General Assembly will address this session. No surprise, property tax relief tops the agenda. It's been the number one item on the CCM legislative agenda for as long as I can remember.
The other two top priorities are controlling development sprawl and using the state surplus for bonding purposes to invest in Connecticut's infrastructure.
All good ideas, but never easy to implement. And at this point, lawmakers don't have a lot of answers either. How this will all play out is really an unknown at this point until Gov. M. Jodi Rell sends over her proposed 20007-09 two year budget proposal - which lawmakers will go over and amend - and evenutally adopt their own budget proposal covering the next two years.
One of the biggest hurdles facing the General Assembly and the governor this year, as I noted in a previous column in the newspaper, will be the constitutionally mandated spending cap. It's not an issue of how much money the state has to spend - it's an issue of how can it spend, and where and on what.
The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities released it's legislative agenda - the annual wish list - of items they are hoping the governor and General Assembly will address this session. No surprise, property tax relief tops the agenda. It's been the number one item on the CCM legislative agenda for as long as I can remember.
The other two top priorities are controlling development sprawl and using the state surplus for bonding purposes to invest in Connecticut's infrastructure.
All good ideas, but never easy to implement. And at this point, lawmakers don't have a lot of answers either. How this will all play out is really an unknown at this point until Gov. M. Jodi Rell sends over her proposed 20007-09 two year budget proposal - which lawmakers will go over and amend - and evenutally adopt their own budget proposal covering the next two years.
One of the biggest hurdles facing the General Assembly and the governor this year, as I noted in a previous column in the newspaper, will be the constitutionally mandated spending cap. It's not an issue of how much money the state has to spend - it's an issue of how can it spend, and where and on what.
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