Published January 13. 2021 4:13PM | Updated January 13. 2021 7:38PM
KEITH M. PHANEUF, The Connecticut Mirror
Gov. Ned Lamont has to close a whopping $4.3 billion deficit in the next two-year state budget, but he won’t make cities and towns bear the brunt of that fiscal pain.
Lamont told the Connecticut Council of Small Towns at its annual meeting Wednesday morning that he wouldn’t propose cuts to municipal aid, which totals nearly $3 billion per year. COST represents 110 towns with populations of 30,000 or less.
The governor, who was the keynote speaker at COST’s annual town meeting held virtually this year also said he won’t attempt to bill municipalities for a share of Connecticut’s massive teacher pension fund debt.