Connecticut homeowners pay 20 percent more in property taxes than residents of its nearest neighbors, even as home values in the Nutmeg State have declined, according to a new study released Wednesday. “As a percentage of housing value, Connecticut homeowners now pay 20 percent more than New Yorkers and almost ...
The Town of Ellington’s Board of Education was able to reduce their contractual payments to school bus company First Student, Inc. by 75 percent for the period covering the closure of schools due to the pandemic, saving the town $444,000. According to an agreement signed and approved by the Ellington ...
Stephen Barone, a Hartford police officer who was fired after being caught on video telling a group of young men that he felt “trigger happy,” has filed a grievance against his termination. The City of Hartford confirmed the grievance has been filed but there has not yet been a hearing. ...
In an email to his constituents on Wednesday, Rep. Josh Elliott, D-Hamden, wrote “there will necessarily be a combination of property tax increases or loss of services,” in Hamden, which has been struggling under crushing debt and unfunded pension liabilities for well over a decade. Elliott’s email includes a lengthy ...
The COVID-19 has forced social distancing measures to be put in place and part of that social distancing is avoiding potentially crowded civic engagement practices like in-person municipal voting. Gov. Ned Lamont’s executive orders suspended in-person voting requirements for the adoption of municipal budgets and setting mill rates and some ...
Schools are closed across Connecticut and many municipal buildings and offices are running on reduced schedules in response to the COVID-19 public health crisis, but towns may not see much in the way of cost-savings from those closures. Harwinton First Selectman Michael Criss says his town has closed most municipal ...