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EYE ON CONNECTICUT: Organization working to recruit minorities to run for office

Most towns will have local elections later this year. Channel 3 spoke with one organization about how it is trying to recruit new faces to run for office. “To envision where you’ve never really seen yourself is scary,” said Bloomfield Mayor Suzette Debeatham-Brown. Debeatham-Brown is proud to hold a first: The first Caribbean-born mayor in Bloomfield’s history. A year after protestors took to the streets demanding an to end systemic racism, Debeatham-Brown holds another distinction. She is the only person of color currently holding the top elected office in any town in Connecticut “Our municipal leadership across the state did not pair up or reflect the constituencies of which we serve,” said Joe DeLong, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities executive director.

CCM: Labor reforms in Senate bill unneeded, misguided | Hartford Business Journal

The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities is calling on state leaders to oppose a Senate bill expanding the power and reach of public-sector labor unions, arguing the proposal would place new burdens on many towns and cities and complicate the relationship between municipal employers and their workers. The legislation, known as SB 908, would require public employers to supply unions with employees’ contact information, give union officials access to new employee orientations, and allow public employees and retirees to authorize deductions from their salaries or retirement payments to pay union dues. Co-sponsored by Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven, and Sen. Julie Kushner, D-Danbury, the bill was recently passed out of the Labor Committee and added to the Senate’s calendar.

Three measures seek to promote regional sharing, cost savings

By Tom Condon, CT Mirror Connecticut’s heavy reliance on local property taxes is a millstone around the state’s neck, critics have long asserted. They say high property taxes are a drag on business, promote sprawl and bad land use and penalize land-poor municipalities. A number of people believe this burden can be significantly reduced by sharing municipal services on a regional basis. Three measures are afoot that could encourage more regional services. One is a bill before the General Assembly that would revive a dormant grant program to provide funds for regional services provided either by the state’s nine councils of governments (COGs) or six regional education service centers (RESCs). It’s one of two proposed bills aimed at promoting shared services.

Three measures seek to promote regional sharing, cost savings

Three measures seek to promote regional sharing, cost savings
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A fight over housing segregation is dividing one of America s most liberal states

A fight over housing segregation is dividing one of America s most liberal states
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