East Hartford Legislative Delegation Responds
I received a letter yesterday dated March 9th from our Reps. Larson, Genga & Rojas and Senator LeBeau in response to the letter I sent them on Feb. 25th requesting emergency legislation providing an exemption for East Hartford from Minimum Budget Requirements and binding arbitration awards.
According to the letter they are working on it but can’t gt it done in time. I disagree, if they wanted to do it it would be introduced by now. Incidentally the MORE commission presentation on the first round of recommendations does not indicate at all that there is any intention of suspending binding arbitration or Minimum Budget Requirements now or in the future. There is however plenty of reference to the commission being significantly behind new and increased taxes at the state level. They call them “revenue streams”. See for yourself. http://housedems.ct.gov/more/More3_3_10.pdf
Make no mistake, because of inaction by our legislative delegation our taxes in this newly adopted budget are almost $200 per year higher than they would otherwise be if we were free to set our Board of Education budget at reasonable levels.
If they continue to not act on these issues our taxes will increase another $400 next year.
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Hmm, that’s all our elected officials can muster? I think that everyone knows that any action taken by the General Assembly in this session will not have any impact on the current budget picture. What about 2011 and beyond? They must be waiting for the economy to make that long awaited complete turn-around so they don’t have to do anything. Do I sound a little annoyed? You betcha.
As you should.
If we knew our delegation was going to act their action could indeed have an impact on this budget. We could cut appropriately from the Board of Education knowing that by that an exemption is in the works to protect our state dollars from being pulled back.
I can’t wait to see how these guys campaign this year, assuming they have competition. They have been good for absolutely nothing but introducing bonding earmarks. Debt and taxes…. where is the leadership?