Post by Logan on Jan 30, 2016 0:22:14 GMT -6
HARTFORD — Austere, painful and filled with hard choices.
Those are some of the words lawmakers and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy are using to describe the state budget and the upcoming legislative session.
Malloy won't reveal his spending plan until lawmakers formally convene next week but on Friday he provided a few hints of what his proposal will look like.
"It's an austere budget," Malloy told reporters just minutes after the State Bond Commission met to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in borrowing to pay for scores of program grants and capital projects around Connecticut.
At issue is an estimated shortfall of $552 million, or about 3 percent of the state budget, for the fiscal year that starts July 1.
Read more: www.courant.com/politics/hc-austere-painful-budget-20160129-story.html
Those are some of the words lawmakers and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy are using to describe the state budget and the upcoming legislative session.
Malloy won't reveal his spending plan until lawmakers formally convene next week but on Friday he provided a few hints of what his proposal will look like.
"It's an austere budget," Malloy told reporters just minutes after the State Bond Commission met to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in borrowing to pay for scores of program grants and capital projects around Connecticut.
At issue is an estimated shortfall of $552 million, or about 3 percent of the state budget, for the fiscal year that starts July 1.
Read more: www.courant.com/politics/hc-austere-painful-budget-20160129-story.html