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June 19, 2009
General Assembly Passes CCM Legislation To Allow Municipalities To Re-Open Budgets To Account For ARRA Education Funds
The General Assembly today, in Special Session, passed legislation sponsored by CCM to allow municipalities
to reduce their adopted budgeted appropriations up to the amount of funding boards of education will receive
directly from the stabilization portion of the federal stimulus act (ARRA).
The legislation is found in Section 19 of HB 6901. It reads:
For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, notwithstanding any provision of the
general statutes or any special act, municipal charter, home rule ordinance or
other ordinance, the board of finance in each town having a board of finance, the
board of selectmen in each town having no board of finance or the authority
making appropriations for the school district for each town may reduce its budgeted
appropriation to the local or regional board of education by an amount up to
the limit of funds received directly by such board from the State Fiscal Stabilization
Fund pursuant to Title XIV of the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009, P.L. 111-5, for such fiscal year, provided that upon passage of the
municipal budget prior to June 30, 2009, such board of finance or such authority
making appropriations for the school district for each town failed to account for
the direct provision of such fiscal stabilization funds to such local or regional
boards of education.
The bill, which contained several education-related matters, passed the House 127-1 and the Senate 35-0.
House Deputy Speaker Emil “Buddy” Altobello and Senate Education Committee Chairman Tom Gaffey
shepherded the bill through their respective chambers. It was immediately transmitted to the Governor.
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For more information, please contact Jim Finley (jfinley@ccm-ct.org) or Gian-Carl Casa (gcasa@ccm-ct.org)
of CCM, or (203) 498-3000.
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