The Connecticut Municipal Consortium for Fiscal Responsibility is sponsoring two more regional forums to bring together local board leadership and/or their designees to meet with area legislators. The bipartisan grassroots alliance promotes a three-point cost-management agenda whose planks are common to the legislative platforms of CCM as well as CABE and COST.

The broad alliance consists of a diverse array of Town and City Councils....Boards of Selectmen and Aldermen... as well as those of Education and Finance. To date...... 184 Boards/Chairs representing 109 towns and cities throughout the state have joined in supporting this initiative to help strengthen a municipality's ability to more effectively manage its own local fiscal affairs.

The two forums are set for :

• the Council Chamber at the Avon Town Hall Complex on Rte 44 - 60 West Main St. in Avon Center on Wednesday January 24th @ 7:30PM
• the Meeting Room at the Ellington Town Hall - 55 Main St in Ellington on Monday January 29th @ 7:30PM.

In late November, this coalition of boards from all three perspectives - municipal, fiscal, and education - held three similar forums in Torrington, Oxford, and Bozrah. Local participation is important in strengthening the message to legislators that mandate reform is important to municipalities..... and an important factor in taking on property tax reform issues.

For info on the meetings...... or on the Consortium............ please contact the Board of Finance Chairman for the Town of Granby - Michael Guarco - via his email budgetguru06035@aol.com .