Letter: Shelton mayor, A&T chair working to cripple board's budget input May 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail To the Editor: For those of you who haven’t yet done so, I highly encourage you to go to the city’s YouTube channel and watch the videos of the three Board of Apportionment and Taxation/Board of Aldermen meetings held to discuss the budget this year. They were held on April 22 with the Board of Education, April 27 with some (but not all) of the city department heads and the vote was taken on April 29. Please know that, although an overwhelming majority of the city voted through the charter revision vote last November to retain the Board of A&T as an integral part of the budget oversight process, the mayor and the current chairman of A&T, Jay Francino-Quinn, have done their very best to cripple the ability of the Board of A&T to conduct budget hearings or to have any meaningful input into the budget process.