Workforce

• The Governor's budget cuts funding for at-risk youth summer workforce programs in half.
• Without state support, communities must raise property taxes to keep these programs running or leave young people without productive summer opportunities.

Education Aid

• While the proposal includes an overall increase in Education Cost Sharing (ECS), it results in a decrease in the grant amount for a number of towns.
• ECS funding has decreased by $407 million in real terms over the past decade.
• There is no proposed increase in funding for the Excess Cost grant next year. The grant is underfunded in the current year by at least $50 million.

PILOT

• Towns and cities lose over $1 billion is revenue for property tax exemptions on state-owned and private college & hospital property.
• While this PILOT funding has been increased in recent years, it remains underfunded by at least $400 million.
• The governor’s proposal would actually decrease PILOT slightly.

Pequot-Mohegan Fund

• The $52.4 million appropriated for the grant in 2025 is well below the peak funding of $135 million 2002.
• As gaming revenues have steadily increased in recent years, the share of those revenues going to fund the grant has decreased, from 23% in FY 16 to an estimated 18 percent in FY 25.
• The governor’s proposal would add no new funding for the grant.