09/24/19 |
Municipal Leaders Make Push To Free Up Infrastructure Grants |
09/24/19 |
Ridgefield Battles Vaping At High School, State Legislature |
09/16/19 |
CCM Calls On Governor, Legislature To Pass The Bond Package — $150 million In Critical Infrastructure Improvement And Repair Funding At Stake |
09/16/19 |
Small Green Initiatives add up to Big Green Savings in North Stonington |
09/16/19 |
Opioid Settlement Money Must Be Used To Fight The Scourge |
09/09/19 |
Property Taxes A Drag On All Of CT, Not Just Hartford |
09/09/19 |
Gov. Lamont on CT Property Taxes And Immunization Records |
08/29/19 |
The Wheels On The Bus: Bus Transportation Serves Millions Across CT |
08/29/19 |
Branford animal shelter director spends week in kennel |
08/16/19 |
State Bonding Gridlock Stalls Summer Repaving Funds |
08/16/19 |
DEEP Goes Deep On Recycling And Energy |
08/05/19 |
Finding The Right Audience For CT's Largest City |
08/05/19 |
Local Leaders From Across U.S. Met In Bridgeport For Women In Municipal Government And Hispanic Elected Local Officials |
07/24/19 |
General Assembly Easily Approves School Construction Grants |
07/24/19 |
Harbor Views on New Haven |
07/10/19 |
Farmington Canal Bike Trail Connects 12 CT Communities |
07/10/19 |
Upheaval In Recyclables Market May Cause CT Towns To Lose Serious Bucks |
06/27/19 |
New Haven Board of Alder Leaders Inject Community Voice In Development Boom |
06/27/19 |
Teacher Pension Cost Debate May Not Be Over Yet |
06/14/19 |
Ashford Conservation Commission Cleans Up Roads For Nature And Beauty |
06/14/19 |
CCM: Legislative Session Nets Out For CT's Munis |
06/07/19 |
CCM Presents Initial Assessment of Enacted State Budget and 2019 General Assembly Session |
06/06/19 |
A Delicate Balance For A First Ring Suburb |
05/30/19 |
Pension Offsets Bill Would Be The Worst And Most Costly Workers Compensation Legislation In Years |
05/30/19 |
Connecticut’s Middle Class Endure Sisyphus-like Punishment |
05/24/19 |
Waterbury Looks To Brand Cities Recent Growth |
05/24/19 |
Local News Is In A Hidden Golden Age |
05/23/19 |
CT&C May 2019 |
05/17/19 |
Seymour Collaborates With CT Economic Resource Center |
05/17/19 |
Proposed Deal Presented On PTSD Benefits For Police And Firefighters |
05/10/19 |
Wilton Brings Departments, Organizations In The Know On Tax Credits |
05/10/19 |
Rising Local Recycling Costs Putting Pressure On Lawmakers To Pass Plastic Bag Ban, Expand Bottle Deposit System |
05/02/19 |
Mansfield Public Library eliminates Most Fines On Late Books |
05/02/19 |
CCM thanks Appropriations and Finance Committees For Actions That Aid Connecticut Property Taxpayers |
05/02/19 |
Democratic Lawmakers Support Lamont’s Plan To Have Cities And Towns Pay For Teachers’ Pensions |
04/30/19 |
CCM Statement In Response To Appropriations Committee Budget Plan |
04/26/19 |
Municipal Leaders Meet With Lamont But Neither Side Makes Any Promises |
04/26/19 |
CT Municipalities Say They Have Made Big Cutbacks |
04/22/19 |
OP-ED: Municipalities Present Solutions To Minimum Budget Requirement For Education |
04/22/19 |
CCM Survey: Towns And Cities Have Sought To Limit Budget Increases, And Cut Back Services, As They Fight For Needed Level Of State Aid For July 1 |
04/15/19 |
CCM To host Regional State-Local Legislative Updates On April 16,17 and 18 In Six Regions Across Connecticut |
04/12/19 |
Brooklyn Seizes Opportunity To Install Solar Panels For Maximized Value |
04/12/19 |
Triple Crown Charity On Tap |
04/12/19 |
Cities And Towns Could Face $24M Hit From Minimum Wage Hike |
04/05/19 |
Hartford Raises Legal Age To Purchase Tobacco Products |
04/01/19 |
CCM reports that towns and cities respond to opioid addiction crisis with wide range of increased services and costs |
03/29/19 |
Cities Project: A Statewide Newsroom Collaboration |
03/29/19 |
What One Local Government Did Right |
03/22/19 |
Middletown Looks To Expand Alternative Energy Resources To Renters, Low-Income Homeowners |
03/22/19 |
New Haven Parking Scofflaws Owe City $13.8M |
03/18/19 |
CCM Membership Now Includes All 169 Towns And Cities For The First Time In CCM’s 53-Year History |
03/15/19 |
Hartford, New Haven invest in gun safety |
03/15/19 |
Don't trash recycling |
03/08/19 |
Cities And Towns Face Soaring Recycling Costs, CCM Urges State Action |
03/08/19 |
CT Mayors Band Together In Attempt To Sue Opioid Makers |
03/08/19 |
Brookfield To Rreinvigorate Growth With Easy To Understand Zoning Rules |
03/01/19 |
West Hartford Makes Extensive Use Of Free CCM Service To Save Money On Prescriptions |
03/01/19 |
Aresimowicz Backs Tolls |
02/22/19 |
Town Officials Concerned About Aid Levels, Shift In Teacher Pension Costs In Lamont Budget |
02/22/19 |
Hamden Addresses Critical Infrastructure Needs |
02/21/19 |
CT&C February 2019 r1 |
02/21/19 |
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02/20/19 |
CT&C February 2019 |
02/15/19 |
Manchester Adds Voting District To Ensure Enfranchisement |
02/15/19 |
Lamont: Cut back On Bonding To Manage Debt -- CCM Has Concerns |
02/08/19 |
CCM Leader O'Leary Builds Closer Relationships with Gov, Assembly, OPM |
02/08/19 |
Norwalk has multiple bus projects in the works |
02/08/19 |
Editorial: Take A Deep Breath And Consider Regional School Alternatives |
02/01/19 |
Underfunded Teacher Pension Fund could hinder future budgets |
02/01/19 |
Bridgeport Saw It And Fixed It |
01/25/19 |
CCM, Towns Push Tax Relief For Unpaid Federal Workers As Result Of Government Shutdown |
01/25/19 |
Newtown Educates Citizenry About Fire Prevention |
01/18/19 |
Tolls, Special Ed. Funding, Shared Services On Same Page for Mayor & Senator |
01/18/19 |
Middletown Earns Sustainable CT Certification |
01/15/19 |
2018 Annual Report |
01/11/19 |
Plastic Coyotes Protect Middletown Park From Geese |
01/11/19 |
Legal Recreational Weed Moving Closer To CT |
01/03/19 |
Wilton Prepares For Snowfalls By Optimizing Routes |
01/03/19 |
Take Care of Pensions Now |
12/21/18 |
Give More Time To Assess Cost Of Bills |
12/21/18 |
Mayor of Waterbury Re-Elected To Lead Connecticut Towns And Cities in 2019 as CCM President |
12/14/18 |
Trash diversion Looks For A Smarter Way In New Haven |
12/14/18 |
TV news, newspaper websites lead pack for citizens seeking info |
12/06/18 |
The Pension Buck Stops Here |
12/06/18 |
State Mandates: Fiscal Note Impact Not ‘Potential Minimal’ |
11/28/18 |
Getting Around On Two Wheels: Projects Around State Support Burgeoning Biking Culture |
11/28/18 |
Lamont Transition Gets Busy With 15 Policy Committees with Dec. 12 Deadline |
11/28/18 |
To Report Bullying And Bad Student Behavior, CT Schools Turn To Anonymous Reporting Apps |
11/20/18 |
Innovative Ideas for Managing Local Governments |
11/20/18 |
CT&C November 2018 |
11/16/18 |
Home Grown Businesses: Winchester looks to grow small businesses |
11/16/18 |
Mayors Pitch Lamont On Transit, $chools |
11/09/18 |
How Can Counting Votes in CT Towns Take Less Time? |
11/09/18 |
Advocacy Groups Vow Cooperation With Gov.-Elect During 'Honeymoon' Phase |
11/05/18 |
CCM Names State Senator George Logan of Ansonia and State Representative Jason Rojas of East Hartford as State Legislators of the Year |
11/05/18 |
CCM publishes fourth and final report in its “Election Campaign 2018” series: Regionalism: Working Together For Tomorrow |
10/24/18 |
Lamont, Stefanowski and Griebel Set For Final Debate On The Night of October 30 at CCM Convention at Foxwoods |
10/24/18 |
Hartford Becomes First CT Town To Raise Tobacco Purchasing Age To 21 |
10/18/18 |
Ansonia church, businesses help buy ballistic helmets for Ansonia Police |
10/18/18 |
CCM is live with “2018 Election Central” website to engage voters to push candidates on state-local issues |
10/11/18 |
New Haven Home Sale Price Doubles In 13 years |
10/11/18 |
CCM Publishes Third Report In Series, Property Tax Dependency and Achieving Property Tax Relief |
10/03/18 |
Ansonia-Derby School Regionalization Effort Kicks Off |
10/03/18 |
CCM Publishes Second Report In Campaign Series, Issues In Funding Local Public Education |
10/02/18 |
CCM's Local Public Education Funding Report |
09/25/18 |
Lamont Offers Tax Relief In Jobs Plan; CCM Wants To Work With State |
09/25/18 |
Hartford Area Teens Continue Focus on Gun Violence Prevention |
09/18/18 |
2018 Election Report: Unfunded Mandates |
09/17/18 |
Single-Use Plastic-Bag Ban Instituted In Greenwich |
09/17/18 |
CCM Publishes First Report In Its “Election Campaign 2018” Series, Unfunded State Mandates: The Corrosive Impact on Property Taxpayers |
09/07/18 |
Eastern Connecticut Towns Receive Funding For Concrete Foundation testing |
09/07/18 |
CCM and Environmentalists Debate ‘Model’ Fracking-Waste Ordinance |
08/30/18 |
West Haven is one step closer to seeing The Haven Shopping Center Open |
08/30/18 |
Gubernatorial Debate Schedule Set -- with CCM Hosting Finale |
08/28/18 |
CT&C August 2018 |
08/23/18 |
Stamford High School Health Center Is A Model For Student Health |
08/23/18 |
CCM Devises Model Ordinance For Towns To Prohibit Hydraulic Fracturing Waste At The Local Level |
08/16/18 |
Moderator And Panelists Announced For Likely Last Gubernatorial TV Debate Sponsored By CCM, WTNH NEWS 8, Hartford Courant |
08/16/18 |
Landslide Lamont Offers Mayors A Deal |
08/16/18 |
Derby Saves Thousands On Prescription Drug Costs Through CCM Program |
08/09/18 |
Crumbling Foundations Trending As A Campaign Issue |
08/09/18 |
State’s first cohousing community to be built in Bethany |
08/02/18 |
Pomfret: Using Nature’s Lawnmowers To Keep Weeds And Brush in Check |
08/02/18 |
NBC30 Forum -- At A Price: The Cost of Local Town Living |
07/26/18 |
Norwalk Park: Brownfield Remediation in Action |
07/26/18 |
Pension Shortfalls Loom Large; Two Experts Talked Solutions With CCM |
07/20/18 |
Bethel Joins 50 Other Towns For Sustainable CT |
07/20/18 |
CCM, Legislators And Municipal Leaders Discuss Special Education Cost Issues |
07/06/18 |
In New Britain: From Tool Manufacturing Hub To Data Center |
07/06/18 |
Car Tax Bills Jump Along With New State Cap |
06/29/18 |
DPS 2018 |
06/28/18 |
CCM, CIRMA moving Headquarters to Long Wharf in New Haven This Fall |
06/28/18 |
CCM Applauds Supreme Court Decision On Internet Sales Taxation; Urges State To Authorize Fair Sales Tax Treatment For All CT Retailers |
06/22/18 |
CCM, Municipalities Sue PURA Over Broadband Decision |
06/22/18 |
Vexatious FOI complaints Subject Of New Law |
06/18/18 |
Connecticut Town & City June 2018 |
06/14/18 |
CCM Urges General Assembly To Override Governor's Veto Of New Legislation That Would Prohibit The Executive Branch From Cutting Education Aid In The Mddle Of The Fiscal Year |
06/14/18 |
Banking on a Community: Start Community Bank aims to make a difference in New Haven |
06/05/18 |
Who Rescued Who? North Haven Invests in its Pets |
06/05/18 |
Jobs and Town Aid Roads Top Bond Commission Agenda |
05/31/18 |
Unallocated FY 18 Town Aid Road (TAR) |
05/24/18 |
New Haven Aims To Solve Parking Problems Downtown |
05/24/18 |
Big Pharma Asks Court To Dismiss Cities’ Opioid Lawsuits |
05/24/18 |
Telecom Industry, Towns Continue Fight In Municipal-Broadband Case |
05/17/18 |
Local Cameras To Help Bristol Police Keep City Safe |
05/17/18 |
CCM Presents Checks To Three Statewide Charities Totaling Nearly $40,000 After First Ever Philanthropic Event |
05/17/18 |
SeeClickFix Grows Into Role Helping Towns Manage Storm Response |
05/10/18 |
CCM Statement Assessing 2018 General Assembly Session and State Budget |
05/10/18 |
A Railway Runs Through It. “Port of Naugatuck” aims to develop unused land and revitalize an entire area. |
05/10/18 |
Legislature Overwhelmingly Enacts Bipartisan CT budget; Municipal Aid Shielded |
05/03/18 |
Dozens Of Nonprofits Denied Tax-Exempt Status As Towns And Cities Look For Needed Revenue |
05/03/18 |
Municipal Lobby Makes Final Push To Protect Emergency Reserves From Labor |
04/30/18 |
CCM To Host Last Gubernatorial TV Debate Of The 2018 Election Cycle: Event To Be Sponsored and Led By WTNH 8, Hartford Courant |
04/27/18 |
Trumbull Day is Back! |
04/27/18 |
CCM Trying to Protect Local Fund Balances In Last Weeks of Session |
04/18/18 |
Meriden Turns to Social Media for Library Use |
04/18/18 |
Understanding the Great Connecticut Taxpocalypse |
04/17/18 |
CT&C April 2018 |
04/13/18 |
In Closing Weeks: CCM Urges General Assembly To Pass Key Legislation Protecting Municipal Fund Balances |
04/13/18 |
Wall Street Firm Says Federal Tax Limits Could Hurt CT Towns |
04/13/18 |
Towns and Cities Adamantly Oppose Costly, Unnecessary, New Benefit For Police And First Responders |
04/06/18 |
Offshore Wind Could Be A Boon To New London's Port |
04/06/18 |
Hearst Newspapers: A New Game Board Needed in CT |
03/29/18 |
Fiscal Panel’s Formula For Revitalizing CT Provokes Some Pushback |
03/29/18 |
Moody’s: Connecticut Cities and Towns Feel Pressured By State’s Fiscal Woes |
03/22/18 |
Raymark in Stratford Makes Short List For Redevelopment |
03/22/18 |
Towns Told To Make Up For State Education Cuts |
03/16/18 |
Despite Snowstorms, Town Road Grants Remained Stalled |
03/16/18 |
CCM Backs Plan To Revitalize CT — Despite Possible Risk To Local Aid |
03/09/18 |
CCM Board Unanimously Endorses Package Of Initiatives Presented by State Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth |
03/09/18 |
Bill Would Allow Higher Fees For FOI Requests If For “Commercial Purposes,” Electronic Records |
03/01/18 |
CCM Assesses Recommendations By Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth |
03/01/18 |
Timber! – at Sharon's Housatonic State Forest |
03/01/18 |
Legislators Consider Action On CCM Regional Efficiencies, Sharing Services |
02/23/18 |
Towns Face Tax Pressures After Slow Recovery From Great Recession |
02/23/18 |
Governor: Towns Need More Affordable Housing |
02/20/18 |
Connecticut Town & City February 2018 |
02/16/18 |
House Speaker Calls for Eliminating Car Tax -- Again |
02/15/18 |
CCM Calls on Governor & State Bond Commission To Take Action To Release Critical Infrastructure State Aid Promised For Towns In Second Half of FY 2017-18 |
02/07/18 |
See-Click-Fix! Hamden Joins Growing Number Using Mobile App |
02/07/18 |
Governor Unveils Proposed Muni aid -- Better Than Last Year, But Some Towns Still Zeroed Out |
02/07/18 |
Big Public Labor Unions Don't Want This Debate |
01/29/18 |
Editorial -- Connecticut’s S.O.S. -- Mayors ask Hartford to save them from collective bargaining |
01/29/18 |
Editorial -- Yes, change how state benefits are set for public employee |
01/25/18 |
Ellington Dairy Farm Expands– and – Wants All to See |
01/25/18 |
CCM: End Collective Bargaining for Pension, Health Benefits -- Current Costs Are Unsustainable |
01/18/18 |
Supreme Court: CT's Education System Is Flawed, But Not Unconstitutional |
01/18/18 |
Woodbridge Budget Presentation Second To None |
01/11/18 |
Malloy Chief Says No To $5M for Three Towns For Car Taxes |
01/11/18 |
Ansonia Public Works Chief In Spotlight For Saving City Money |
01/03/18 |
Back to Life! Apartment Complex Key to New Britain Revitalization |
01/02/18 |
Mayor of Waterbury to lead Connecticut towns and cities in 2018 as CCM President |
12/20/17 |
Body Camera Ready: Stamford Latest Police Force to Sign Up |
12/20/17 |
Lawmakers Delay Action, Special Session On Medicare Program Until The New Year |
12/19/17 |
CTC December 2017 |
12/07/17 |
Editorial: Change Needed To Drive State Forward |
12/07/17 |
CCM’s first-ever statewide student contest posed the question: What is cool about your local government? More than 100 middle and high school students responded with winners from Milford and South Windsor |
11/30/17 |
CCM Names State Legislator of the Year -- Senator Gayle Slossberg of Milford |
11/30/17 |
New CCM Initiative Helps Towns Become More Sustainable |
11/30/17 |
Editorial: Legislators — Take This Small Step To Help Cities and Towns |
11/22/17 |
First Bike-Sharing Program in CT Set To Roll In New Haven |
11/22/17 |
Minority Leader Calls For Special Session To Stop New Munciipal Aid Cuts |
11/20/17 |
CCM Response To OPM Anouncing New $91 Million Cut in State Aid |
11/16/17 |
Local Party Control Shifts Across CT After Municipal Elections |
11/16/17 |
Boost for New London With Condo Complex Planned for City Center |
11/08/17 |
Hartford Gets Boost from UConn: Campus in State Capitol Lauded |
11/08/17 |
Welcome to CT's Newly Elected Mayors And First Selectmen |
11/03/17 |
Farms In Four CT Towns Improve Energy Systems |
11/03/17 |
Administration, Legislators At Odds Over The Math of Local Aid Cuts |
10/27/17 |
Cities and Towns Exhale With Budget Vote |
10/27/17 |
Bipartisan State Budget Protects Municipal Aid, Achieves Significant Municipal Reforms |
10/27/17 |
Wethersfield Remembers Its Seniors: Town Offers Many Programs for Elderly |
10/20/17 |
Cops to Hamden: “How We Doing?” Residents Surveyed on Police Response, Other Issues |
10/20/17 |
Legislative Leaders Reach Tentative Deal With No Teachers' Retirement Contribution by Towns |
10/16/17 |
CCM responds to Moody’s actions downgrading credit ratings of towns and cities as state budget impasse drags on |
10/16/17 |
CCM statement in response to Governor's latest budget proposal |
10/13/17 |
Still No Budget: CCM Doesn't Want Pensions Pushed on Towns |
10/13/17 |
Fairfield Goes “Electric” -- Cars and Bikes on Display |
10/05/17 |
CCM Board calls on Governor and General Assembly to establish a new Pension & Retirement Benefits Reform Commission and not transfer any teachers’ retirement costs to towns until commission assesses matters |
10/05/17 |
Municipal aid hits multiply as big grants are cut |
09/28/17 |
CCM Statement In Response to New Report By Municipal Market Analytics |
09/28/17 |
Branford RR Station Is Path for Development |
09/22/17 |
Local Officials Continue To Worry About Budget Stalemate As Oct. 1 Nears |
09/22/17 |
Helping Those In Need: Volunteers help feed Hartford, West Hartford Residents |
09/16/17 |
CCM Statement on Budget Bill Adopted by the General Assembly |
09/14/17 |
The Time for Municipal Line-Item Veto of Education budgets Has Come |
09/13/17 |
CCM and COST Joint Statement on Budget Proposal by House and Senate Republicans |
09/08/17 |
CCM Responds to Governor's Latest Budget Proposals |
09/08/17 |
Municipal Leaders Have Shown You Our Sustainable Plan — What Is Yours? |
08/30/17 |
Higher Income Taxes For CT’s Wealthy May Still Be in Play |
08/30/17 |
How Many Cities & Towns Face Insolvency Over Budget Stand-0ff? Malloy Begins Counting |
08/25/17 |
Westport Police Gear Up For Citizen Police Program |
08/25/17 |
Report From Malloy Seeks To Re- Frame Debate Over Changes To, Need for, State Aid |
08/17/17 |
CT&C August 2017 |
08/17/17 |
Growing Number of Towns Consider Lawsuit Against Pharmaceutical Companies Over Opioid Addiction |
08/17/17 |
Municipal Fund Balances At 5 percent Fall Far Short Of Needed Financial Buffer |
08/09/17 |
Municipal Officials Fear Info Sought By Malloy Could Lead To Slashed Aid |
08/09/17 |
Connecticut Towns Mull Shrinking Fiscal Options As They Wait For State Budget |
07/28/17 |
Municipalities Are Increasingly Struggling Without Budget Deal In Place |
07/24/17 |
Over 60 Towns & Cities Respond to CCM Survey Illustrating Service & Fiscal Constraints Imposed On Local Governments As New Fiscal Year Begins Amidst Continuing State Budget Impasse |
07/21/17 |
Groton Fire Department Begins New Outreach Effort |
07/21/17 |
Group of CT Municipalities Explore Lawsuit Against Opioid Drugmakers |
07/14/17 |
CCM: Time For Dueling Press Conferences on Budget Proposals Is Over |
07/05/17 |
State To Allow More Input on Cellphone Antenna Placement |
07/05/17 |
Truth – House Dems Sales Tax Fairer Than Onerous Property Tax Hike |
06/30/17 |
Democrats Call For Sales Tax Increase; Possible Vote July 18 |
06/30/17 |
CCM Response To Revised Two-Year Proposed State Budget From House Democratic Leaders |
06/29/17 |
Without State Budget, Towns Could See Steep Cuts Under Malloy’s Executive Order |
06/21/17 |
Cities, Towns Ask State Leaders in TV Ad, ‘Are You listening?’ |
06/15/17 |
Without a CT Budget by July 1, The Options Are All Bad |
06/15/17 |
Lack Of State Budget Brings Uncertainty To Cities, Towns |
06/08/17 |
Towns Rattled By State's Budget Uncertainty |
05/31/17 |
Lawmakers 'Growing Tired' Of Local Leaders Blaming Legislature For Fiscal Woes, Speaker Says |
05/25/17 |
CCM Again Pushes Its Sweeping Plan As Budget Talks Intensify |
05/18/17 |
Cities and Towns Face Massive State Aid Cuts Under Revised Budget Plan |
05/11/17 |
Towns Ask Why CT Officials Won’t Touch Teachers’ Pensions |
05/11/17 |
Malloy Proposes Immediate Budget Cuts, Would Withhold June Local Aid Payments |
05/05/17 |
Punishing Property Tax Just Keeps Growing |
04/26/17 |
Sales Tax Proposal Contingent On Cost-Control Measures Being Adopted |
04/21/17 |
Teachers Union, Local Leaders Speak Out Against Pension Cost-Shift Proposal |
04/13/17 |
Northeastern CT Town Leaders Struggle With Creating Firm Budgets This Year |
04/07/17 |
Legislators Hear From Mayors, First Selectmen; Unknowns in State Budget Causing Worries |
04/07/17 |
CCM Launching New Video Ad to Support HB 7293 and 6937 – Key Cost Containment Proposals Highlighted in CCM’s “This Is Different” Report |
04/07/17 |
Gov’t Sector Bleeding Jobs in Connecticut |
03/31/17 |
Raising The State Sales Tax Not Off The Table |
03/24/17 |
Labor Agreements Impede Shared Services, Cities Say |
03/24/17 |
Democrats Eyeing Sales Tax Hike To Plug Holes In Next CT Budget |
03/17/17 |
Milford Seminars: Small Businesses Begin With Big Dreams |
03/17/17 |
Trump’s Education Budget: 4 Things To Know For CT Schools |
03/10/17 |
Leadership Unable To Get Municipal Relief Vote Over Finish Line |
03/03/17 |
Has Regionalism’s Time Finally Come? |
02/24/17 |
Battles Over Labor’s Wages Heat Up At Capitol |
02/17/17 |
State Budget Fallout Slams Fairfield |
02/17/17 |
Lawmakers Renew Debate Over Workers’ Comp Coverage For PTSD |
02/10/17 |
No One Wants A Share of CT’s Teacher Pension Bill |
02/03/17 |
CCM Executive Director: State Should Act Outside ‘Comfort Zone’ To Create Economic Stability |
02/03/17 |
Gov. Malloy Proposes Financial Oversight Board to Monitor Troubled Municipalities |
02/03/17 |
Malloy Proposes Easing Mandates On Cities And Towns |
01/27/17 |
Governor, House Speaker Commend CCM and Municipal Leaders for New, Intriguing and Thoughtful Proposals |
01/27/17 |
CCM Recommends Sweeping Changes To Buttress Municipal Finances |
01/24/17 |
CCM To Release Major Report on a "New Way Forward" for CT Cities and Towns; Executive Director DeLong says "This Report is Different" |
01/06/17 |
CCM, CBIA and CT AFL-CIO reconvene Project B.E.S.T. economic summit: Report released on new findings from work groups at 2016 CCM Convention |
01/05/17 |
Malloy's Feb. 8 Budget Proposal To Recalculate Municipal Aid, Education Funding |
01/03/17 |
CCM says $50M In Mid-Year Budget Cuts To Municipalities Is Untenable |
12/19/16 |
Reaching Across Borders Can Be A Win For Towns, Cities |
12/05/16 |
Walker: ‘Devastating’ Cuts Cannot Solve CT’s Budget Woes |
11/23/16 |
Portland First Selectwoman To Head Connecticut Conference of Municipalities |
11/23/16 |
O’Leary Elected Vice President of CCM |
11/16/16 |
CCM Calls For State To Repeal Spending Cap |
11/11/16 |
2016 CCM Convention to take place November 14-15 at Foxwoods Resort. Nearly 1,000 participants from over 130 municipalities will gather as CCM marks its 50th year of service to towns and cities |
11/04/16 |
CT Continues To Rely Too Heavily On Property Tax To Fund Education |
10/21/16 |
CT’s Fiscal Woes Could Mean Higher Municipal Borrowing Costs |
10/21/16 |
Organization Draws Focus To Poverty, Struggling CT Cities |
10/14/16 |
DPH Considers Regionalization, Local Leaders Have Big Concerns |
10/07/16 |
CCM, CBIA & CT AFL-CIO to Reconvene Economic Summit Nov. 14; House Speaker Brendan Sharkey to Lead Regional Policy Development at Summit |
10/05/16 |
Group Warns: As Cities Go, So Go The Suburbs |
10/05/16 |
CCM Raises Alarm On Urban Poverty: Report Says Big Cities Struggle To Serve Neediest |
09/20/16 |
California Company Alarms CT Towns With Letters Proposing 120-Foot 'Utility Poles' |
09/12/16 |
CCM launches its “Election Campaign 2016” with new public policy report, The Property Tax: How Over-Reliance Jeopardizes Connecticut’s Economic Future. |
09/08/16 |
CCM initial statement in response to Superior Court decision in CCJEF v. Rell school-funding decision |
09/08/16 |
CCM Initial Statement In Response To Superior Court Decision in CCJEF v. Rell School-Funding Decision |
08/29/16 |
CCM panel ramping up for comprehensive policy development on municipal fiscal operations and regional service delivery |
08/26/16 |
Towns Wary of Local Spending Cap As State Begins Revenue Sharing |
08/24/16 |
Push for Regional Cooperation Intensifies in Connecticut |
08/22/16 |
Point Counterpoint; Lori Pelletier, CT AFL-CIO vs. Joe Brennan, CBIA |
08/12/16 |
New CCM report shows how local officials can best combat drug abuse in their communities |
08/10/16 |
New CCM Report Shows How Local Officials Can Best Combat Drug Abuse in Their Communities |
08/09/16 |
Town Declines State Grant Over Objections To Municipal Spending Cap |
08/03/16 |
CCM And Its Sustainability Task Force Partners With ECSU To Present Best Practices In Sustainability Efforts In CT |
07/18/16 |
Report: CT, New England States Lag Nation In Capital Spending |
07/07/16 |
CT Towns, Medical Examiner Compromise On Handling Of Remains |
07/01/16 |
CCM calls on state to continue staffing New Haven and Hartford prisoner detention centers |
07/01/16 |
Our State: A Good Place To Be Evicted, Except For Towns |
06/07/16 |
Malloy Makes ‘Last Minute’ $20 million Cut to State Aid -- Can Towns Depend on Projections? |
06/03/16 |
CCM Statement Regarding Last-Minute $20 Million Cut to Towns and Cities |
05/27/16 |
State Handing Towns Responsibility For Unclaimed Human Remains |
05/25/16 |
Senate Leader Pledges Commitment to Capping ‘Unfair’ Car Tax |
05/24/16 |
Some Win, Some Lose In State Aid Allotments |
05/13/16 |
Five Things To Know About the Budget Implementer: Retirement For All, Yard Goats, Diapers and More General Assembly |
05/13/16 |
A handshake, then a vote on Connecticut’s next budget |
05/12/16 |
CCM Expresses Concerns Regarding Two Aspects of the Budget Implementer Bill |
05/11/16 |
CCM, Local Elected Officials Urge Lawmakers To Make Structural Changes |
05/03/16 |
CCM says that the Governor’s latest budget proposal calls for nearly $120 million in state aid cuts |
04/29/16 |
CCM Applauds House & Senate Democrats for Budget; Republicans for Mandates Relief Package |
04/27/16 |
CCM calls on State to immediately release $60 million in funds that are overdue to towns for critical transportation projects |
04/21/16 |
A Connecticut compromise on firefighters’ cancer relief |
04/21/16 |
CCM Launches TV Ad Campaign For Last Weeks of Session |
04/12/16 |
Bill to Allow Fewer Polling Places in Primaries Back After 4 Years |
04/07/16 |
Appropriations Budget Falls Far Short of Closing Deficit |
04/04/16 |
Committee bill Would Eliminate State Venue Tax, in Favor of Local One |
03/30/16 |
2016 CCM Services Brochure |
03/29/16 |
CCM: Deficit Package A Win For Property Taxpayers |
03/28/16 |
Our View: Municipal aid reduction would be tax hike by another name |
03/28/16 |
Editorial: Mind the cities and the good will come |
03/18/16 |
Big City Mayors Urge Lawmakers To Maintain Property Tax Relief |
03/16/16 |
Republicans pitch furloughs, restore hospital aid, put municipal revenue sharing at risk |
03/16/16 |
Guilford residents save big on prescription drug costs through CCM |
03/16/16 |
Municipalities look to streetlights to save money |
03/02/16 |
Municipal leaders pushing for change in spending cap |
03/02/16 |
Cities and towns: don’t burden us with unfunded mandates |
03/02/16 |
Towns Look To Fend Off Budget Cuts |
03/01/16 |
Transportation Committee Debates Merits Of DMV Bill, Delinquent Motor Vehicle Taxes |
02/29/16 |
First responders back broader PTSD coverage; Mayor O'Leary warns of bill's potential cost |
02/29/16 |
More than 70 municipal leaders to assemble for CCM Day on the Hill on Tuesday, March 1 at the State Capitol; News conference set for 10:45 a.m. with state legislative Leaders |
02/26/16 |
Legislators Nearing Deal On Cancer Coverage For Firefighters |
02/22/16 |
Connecticut towns scramble as DMV lists thousands of vehicles in wrong municipalities |
02/19/16 |
Berlin Saves Residents Over $70,000 From CCM Prescription Drug Discount Program |
02/16/16 |
Firefighters' cancer compensation deal close, but far from a done deal |
02/15/16 |
Firefighters, towns talk compromise on cancer bill |
02/12/16 |
DMV is a car wreck, don’t blame towns |
02/10/16 |
Governor, municipalities at odds over car tax and DMV |
02/09/16 |
Speed DMV lines by shedding collection role; problematic for towns |
02/05/16 |
CCM is working with Governor and Legislators to advance proposed state budget as it affects towns and cities |
02/01/16 |
Big budget changes uncertain as lawmakers return to Capitol |
02/01/16 |
Op-Ed --In Connecticut: We Must Become the Change We Want to See, by Joe DeLong CCM Executive Director |
01/29/16 |
CCM reminds state leaders that unfinished business remains on three issues of concern to towns |
01/20/16 |
OP-ED | What CCM Means by ‘Collaborating for the Common Good’ |
01/20/16 |
Municipal lobby wants to shed ‘special interest’ image |
01/15/16 |
Video on CTN: CCM Capitol News Briefing on the Launch of Statewide Media Campaigns |
01/14/16 |
Municipal Lobbying Group Launches TV Ad Campaign |
01/13/16 |
CCM launches simultaneous media campaigns to advance public's understanding of state aid and property taxes and CCM's collaborative efforts for towns and residents |
01/05/16 |
City seeks more energy efficient streetlights through partnership with CCM |
12/28/15 |
Mayor Mark Boughton’s statewide stature to increase in 2016 as the president of the 158-member CCM |
12/17/15 |
Danbury Mayor Boughton elected president of statewide municipalities group |
12/17/15 |
CCM Report Highlights Regional Cooperation Efforts |
12/17/15 |
CCM report stresses need for more regional cooperation |
12/15/15 |
CCM Elects New Officers and Board of Directors for 2016; Mayor Mark Boughton of Danbury Elected President |
12/11/15 |
Norwich Bulletin -- Our View: Economic summit produced host of good ideas |
12/10/15 |
End-Of-Session 'Christmas Tree' Bill No Way To Make Law |
12/08/15 |
Economic summit makes key recommendations |
12/08/15 |
Labor, Business, Municipalities Press For Reform Following Summit |
12/08/15 |
Legislator Blasts Budget Implementer Process |
12/08/15 |
Diverse Group of Stakeholders Reaches Consensus on Key Policy Areas |
12/08/15 |
CCM, CBIA and Connecticut AFL-CIO Briefing on CTN to Release Economic Summit Report & Policy Proposals |
12/07/15 |
OP-ED | State‘s Tax Panel Must Resolve Residents’ Biggest Tax Problem—The Property Tax |
12/07/15 |
CCM, CBIA & CT AFL-CIO economic summit: report released on top summit findings |
12/03/15 |
OP-ED | State‘s Tax Panel Must Resolve Residents’ Biggest Tax Problem—The Property Tax |
11/16/15 |
2015 Project B.E.S.T. Summit |
11/11/15 |
Over 175 key CT leaders to convene tomorrow Nov. 12- through Nov. 13 for first-ever economic summit |
11/04/15 |
More than 100 key CT leaders to convene on Nov. 12- 13 for first-ever economic summit brainstormed by CCM, CBIA and CT AFL-CIO |
09/01/15 |
Digital BackOffice to be lead business sponsor of the October 20 CCM Convention and Exposition |
06/17/15 |
Over 80 municipal officials to assemble for June 18 CCM Annual Meeting; New CCM Executive Director to present first major address on the "New CCM" and legislative concerns with coming Special Session |
06/12/15 |
Connecticut's local leaders call for more inclusion and transparency in the state budgeting process |
06/01/15 |
Initial CCM statement in response to state budget agreement |
05/29/15 |
CCM calls on General Assembly to quickly fix Senate Bill 1 to better deliver fiscal relief to hard-pressed property taxpayers and reduce municipal overreliance on the regressive property tax |
05/26/15 |
Coalition unites to oppose new mega mandate for workers' comp; news conference set for Wed., May 27 at 11 a.m. at State Capitol |
05/19/15 |
Enact a state budget that protects property taxpayers, Op-Ed by Joe DeLong, CCM Executive Director |
05/18/15 |
With major cancer presumption bill reaching critical stage, CCM begins airing radio messages calling on legislators to turn aside this costly unfunded state mandate |
05/18/15 |
Click here to listen to CCM radio spot opposing cancer presumption mandate: "If we don't learn from the past, we are destined to repeat our mistakes..." |
05/18/15 |
Click here to listen to CCM radio spot opposing cancer presumption mandate "Proponents are pushing two huge mandates that would unnecessarily cost towns millions..." |
03/23/15 |
New federal data shows low-income students shortchanged for education funding; CCM points to overdependence on property taxes; $600 million underfunding of ECS grant |
03/19/15 |
Special appropriations forum with municipal leaders on Governor proposed budget |
03/10/15 |
Resident state trooper proposal would cost 29 towns $3.1 million; total for all towns would exceed $5 million |
03/05/15 |
CCM says 70 towns and cities would receive less aid |
03/03/15 |
CCM, poised for even greater success, names Joseph DeLong Executive Director |
02/18/15 |
Proposed state budget would maintain overall state aid to towns and cities |
02/03/15 |
CCM asserts: state's tax incidence study finds the property tax is most burdensome and regressive state-local tax on CT residents and businesses |
01/28/15 |
CCM's initial response to DEEP's revised stormwater permit proposal for towns |
01/15/15 |
CCM asserts: serious issues still remain after DEEP signals possible changes to proposed MS4 stormwater permit |
01/05/15 |
CCM's 2015 state legislative priorities announced |