Shelton Aldermen debate adding $1.2M to school budget
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Exterior of Shelton City Hall, in Shelton, Conn. Jan. 11, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
SHELTON The Board of Aldermen said it hopes to add some $1.2 million to the education budget for the coming fiscal year.
Board of Aldermen President John Anglace Jr. said during his board’s first budget workshop earlier this week that the additional money had been requested by the Board of Education to cover contractual obligations.
“What we’ve got to do is find a way to provide (the Board of Education) with $1,179,000,” Anglace said.
Mayor Mark Lauretti “acknowledged in his budget address that the Board of Aldermen must put more money in the Board of Education budget,” Anglace added. “We’re all starting on the same page here.”
Shelton Aldermen debate adding $1.2M to school budget
Brian Gioiele
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Exterior of Shelton City Hall, in Shelton, Conn. Jan. 11, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
SHELTON The Board of Aldermen said it hopes to add some $1.2 million to the education budget for the coming fiscal year.
Board of Aldermen President John Anglace Jr. said during his board’s first budget workshop earlier this week that the additional money had been requested by the Board of Education to cover contractual obligations.
“What we’ve got to do is find a way to provide (the Board of Education) with $1,179,000,” Anglace said.
Mayor Mark Lauretti “acknowledged in his budget address that the Board of Aldermen must put more money in the Board of Education budget,” Anglace added. “We’re all starting on the same page here.”
Shelton Apportionment & Taxation board passes unchanged budget to Aldermen
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Exterior of Shelton City Hall, in Shelton, Conn. Jan. 11, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
SHELTON Democrat Board of Apportionment and Taxation members’ attempts to add more money to the mayor’s proposed education budget failed and the original plan is now with the aldermen.
A&T failed, with two tie votes along party lines, to approve any recommendations to Mayor Mark Lauretti’s proposed 2021-22 fiscal year $128,225,767 city budget, a $43,728 increase from the proposed spending plan.
If the mayor’s budget is approved as proposed, the mill rate would be 22.03, a 1.74 reduction. The proposed spending plan projects a 98.85 percent tax collection rate, according to Finance Director Paul Hiller.
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Budgeting in the age of COVID-19: Here is the 2021 spending for Lehigh Valley towns with 10K or more residents
Updated Jan 02, 2021;
Families and friends have mourned hundreds who have died across the region from the coronavirus, thousands more locally have battled the virus and all of us have had to adjust our daily routines to live with the pandemic.
Municipal officials in Lehigh and Northampton counties also have had to contend with the effects of the pandemic including drops in revenue, such as through earned income and entertainment taxes, while still keeping neighborhoods patrolled, roads paved and plowed, fire departments supported and myriad other public services continuing.