The Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations is recommending the legislature change state statute to allow municipal meetings to be held online, ending the requirement that municipal governments hold in-person, open meetings, according to a draft copy of the ACIR’s recommendations on which executive orders to keep and which to discard. ...
The Town of Vernon has sent its own bill to Eversource, demanding $84,000 in reimbursement for costs the town incurred during a nearly-statewide blackout following Tropical Storm Isaias. “The Town of Vernon sustained significant monetary damages directly attributable to Eversource’s lack of preparedness and inability to adequately respond to power ...
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 ...
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 ...
On an April 22 conference call with municipal leaders in the Capital Region Council of Governments, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said “at some time, we will have to face the need to tighten our belts” in order to pay for $2 trillion in federal bailouts. “When I say tighten our ...
A newly-ratified agreement between the Town of Vernon and a town bargaining unit has ended the automatic deduction of union dues from employee paychecks in response to the Supreme Court’s Janus v. AFSCME decision. The agreement between the Town of Vernon and the renamed Directors Independent Unit was approved by ...