Ali Oshinskie / Connecticut Public
Originally published on July 15, 2021 1:04 pm
Cities and towns around the state are seeing record levels of funding from COVID relief funds and the state budget this year. But lawmakers in the Naugatuck River Valley worry what happens when the sugar high of federal dollars wears off.
Federal COVID relief funds helped to bolster the state budget this year. But there’s a problem with this source of funding according to Republican Rep. Nicole Klarides-Ditria of Derby, Beacon Falls and Seymour. “We really feel that this is going to set us up for a budget shortfall in 2 years,” she said,
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