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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The city of Columbus has agreed to pay $10 million to the family of André Hill, an unarmed Black man fatally shot by former Columbus police officer
Preston — The annual budget public hearing May 20 will be the first in-person meeting since the pandemic hit in March 2020, giving voters the chance to gather and comment on the $4 million town and $12.48 million school budgets. Despite spending increases in both budgets, the proposed tax rate would drop by a quarter mill, after the Board of Finance voted to use $450,000 in town surplus funds to offset any tax increase. The entire budget process was left to the Board of Finance last spring according to Gov. Ned Lamont’s pandemic executive order. But Lamont is lifting most pandemic restri...
Published May 12. 2021 4:38PM | Updated May 12. 2021 4:48PM Kevin Gorden, Special to The Day Ledyard — Next week marks the annual Town Meeting and budget vote. Officials note there are a couple of changes in this year's process. The annual meeting on Monday, May 17, can be attended either in person or remotely via Zoom at http://bit.ly/ledyardtm21, or audio only by telephone can be accessed at 1 (646) 558-8656. The meeting ID number is 992 0672 3840 and passcode is 820981. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the high school auditorium. It will be adjourned to a townwide referendum the ...
New London — Jeanne Milstein, the city’s Human Services Director, says a $200,000 boost in funding in the mayor’s proposed budget could reduce the number of mental-health-related calls to police. She is developing a plan for a Peer Navigator program and looking to hire at least three people “with lived mental health experience” to perform follow-up work with individuals with mental health issues who find themselves dealing with police officers. About 40% of police calls for service in the city are mental health related and Milstein said the program could reduce that number and curta...
East Lyme — Taxpayers voted at the end of Monday night's hybrid town meeting — through a chorus of ayes from those in the high school auditorium and a show of hands from those accessing the meeting remotely — to adjourn to a referendum vote on the proposed $77.9 million budget for 2021-22. The referendum will take place from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 19, at the East Lyme Community Center. The finance board's proposed budget comes in at $52.21 million for education, $19.38 million for general government, $5.72 million for debt service and $683,113 for capital. The total re...