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Malloy’s latest budget tweak boosts Norwalk’s ECS, zeroes out 28 towns
Updated 11:49 p.m. Wednesday to add links to Hartford Courant story, Malloy’s revised budget plan. NORWALK, Conn. – If it’s Wednesday, that must mean Norwalk won’t see any cuts to its Education Cost sharing funding in the 2017 budget. That’s different from Sunday, when sources said Norwalk was taking a nearly $58,000 hit to its…
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Democrats applaud city’s cut of shared sales tax revenue
Updated 12:44 a.m. Thursday. NORWALK, Conn. – Five Norwalk Democratic politicians held a news conference Wednesday morning to tout how the city benefits by sharing sales tax revenue with the state. It’s a way to reduce burdensome property taxes in Norwalk, said state Sen. Bob Duff, who noted the city is in line to…
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Wilms again takes aim at state ECS formula
NORWALK, Conn. – State Rep. Fred Wilms (R-142), who filed papers to open his 2016 re-election campaign committee last week, said in a Thursday press release he will continue his fight to change the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula. Wilms campaigned on the issue two years ago when running for the House seat vacated by…
