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Mayor Mark Lauretti’s proposed 2023-24 city budget moves on to the Board of Aldermen unchanged after the Board of A&T deadlocked on whether to pass it on. ....
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. ....
Shelton Apportionment & Taxation board passes unchanged budget to Aldermen Brian Gioiele FacebookTwitterEmail Exterior of Shelton City Hall, in Shelton, Conn. Jan. 11, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media SHELTON Democrat Board of Apportionment and Taxation members’ attempts to add more money to the mayor’s proposed education budget failed and the original plan is now with the aldermen. A&T failed, with two tie votes along party lines, to approve any recommendations to Mayor Mark Lauretti’s proposed 2021-22 fiscal year $128,225,767 city budget, a $43,728 increase from the proposed spending plan. If the mayor’s budget is approved as proposed, the mill rate would be 22.03, a 1.74 reduction. The proposed spending plan projects a 98.85 percent tax collection rate, according to Finance Director Paul Hiller. ....
Shelton official: Budget workshop schedule a disservice to taxpayers Brian Gioiele FacebookTwitterEmail Mayor Mark A. Lauretti presented his budget for Fiscal Year 2021-2022 to the Board of Aldermen and the Board of Apportionment and Taxation at Shelton City Hall in Shelton, Conn., on Thursday April 1, 2021.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media SHELTON Allowing the Board of Apportionment and Taxation only two workshops is not enough time for a full analysis of Mayor Mark Lauretti’s proposed budget, one A&T member says. A&T will holds its first budget workshop Thursday when the Board of Education will present its budget. The meeting will start at 6 p.m. in the City Hall auditorium and can be viewed live on the city’s website. ....