For some municipal leaders, the state legislature’s 2015 promise to send hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to cities and towns is one of the worst examples of fiscal bait-and-switch in Connecticut politics. And some Democratic state legislators won re-election after making that pledge.

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With lingering confusion and lack of state guidance, municipal leaders say they are forging their own solutions on how to hold safe annual town meetings during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Avon expects both a budget hearing in April and town meeting on May 3 will be conducted online.

“We want to put a marker down in negotiations with all the parties, Republicans and Democrats and the executive branch, that PILOT is going to be really, really critical to this budget,” House Speaker Matt Ritter said before the vote.