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House passes measure making it easier for towns to merge services
Keith M. Phaneuf, CTmirror.org
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Joe DeLong, executive director of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, in a 2016 file photo.Hearst Connecticut Media
The House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday afternoon that would make it easier, politically, for municipalities to merge services.
The bill, which now heads to the Senate, gives cities and towns the option of merging services regardless of whether local charter provisions appear to block such a move an accommodation requested by the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities.
“This is a step in the right direction,” CCM Executive Director Joseph DeLong said shortly after the Democrat-controlled House voted 88-59 to approve in a vote largely along party lines.