Yesterday, when discussing local revaluation, I expressed concern about the probable nastiness arising from revaluation disruption hitting as state grants to towns dry up.
It begins.
Seen in the Courant:
The state budget crisis edged closer to Connecticut’s classrooms Wednesday, when the state school board reluctantly endorsed more than $280 million in potential spending cuts next year.[…]
The state board cautioned that $230 million of rollbacks in Education Cost-Sharing grants would slam the budgets of towns and cities. The cuts would be "nothing more than a transfer of the fiscal crisis from the state to local districts and municipalities," the board wrote in a prepared resolution.
The list of cuts is only a recommendation, one that Gov. M. Jodi Rell can tweak, overhaul or ignore as she prepares her state budget proposal for release in February. But with Connecticut facing a projected $6 billion deficit over the next two years, state officials anticipate reductions in every part of government.
