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February 6, 2009
How to Spell Mandates Relief - with costs for individual mandates
The Governor and the General Assembly have a tremendous opportunity to
champion fiscal relief to towns and cities during this recession – no allocations
necessary, no special funding required, no taxes raised – by simply enacting
policies that give Hometown Connecticut relief from suffocating state mandates.
This much-needed relief will provide immediate cost savings to communities
and residential and business property taxpayers.
The attached menu of relief-options is a compilation of state mandates that have been identified time and time again by state and local leaders as burdensome public policies. Now is the time for action.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Repeal or Postpone
- Reform
- Prohibit
- The Cost of Education Mandates
- Bristol
- Monroe
- Case Study
- Prevailing Wage
- Evicted Tenants
Appendix I: State-Mandated Property Tax Exemptions
Appendix II: Town-by-Town Total State-Mandated Real
Estate Property Tax Exemptions as a
Percentage of Net Total Real Estate
Appendix III: Extrapolations: Estimated Statewide Fiscal Impacts
of Mandates
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