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Reply May 17, 2021 The Connecticut Water Works Association (CWWA), which represents municipal, regional and private water companies serving residents and businesses throughout Connecticut, is urging lawmakers to include investment in water infrastructure funding in its plan to allocate federal funding under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Subscribe Recognizing the importance of replacing and upgrading aging water infrastructure to provide residents and businesses with safe, reliable public water supplies, the ARPA emphasizes that funds may be used to make investments in water infrastructure, including building or upgrading facilities and transmission, distribution, and storage systems, the replacement of lead service lines and climate change initiatives, said Elizabeth Gara, Executive Director of the Connecticut Water Works Association (CWWA). Given the lifelong impact of lead exposure on children, the U.S. Treasury Interim Final Rule encourages states to ....
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From left, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities Executive Director Joe DeLong, Council of Small Towns Executive Director Betsy Gara, and former Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. (CTMirror.org) For some municipal leaders, the state legislature’s 2015 promise to send hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to cities and towns is one of the worst examples of fiscal bait-and-switch in Connecticut politics. And for the Democratic state legislators who won re-election after making that pledge the promise is something they’d like to forget. That’s because the Municipal Revenue Sharing Account, the mechanism through which municipalities would receive a portion of the state sales tax, also has become a recurring pain in the legislature’s side. ....
For some municipal leaders, the state legislature’s 2015 promise to send hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to cities and towns is one of the worst examples of fiscal bait-and-switch in Connecticut politics.
And for the Democratic state legislators who won re-election after making that pledge the promise is something they’d like to forget.
That’s because the Municipal Revenue Sharing Account, the mechanism through which municipalities would receive a portion of the state sales tax, also become a recurring pain in the legislature’s side. ....
6 years later, the pledge to share sales tax receipts with CT towns is still unfulfilled Keith M. Phaneuf, CTMirror.org FacebookTwitterEmail Joe DeLong, executive director of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalitiesfile photo For some municipal leaders, the state legislature’s 2015 promise to send hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to cities and towns is one of the worst examples of fiscal bait-and-switch in Connecticut politics. And for the Democratic state legislators who won re-election after making that pledge the promise is something they’d like to forget. That’s because the Municipal Revenue Sharing Account, the mechanism through which municipalities would receive a portion of the state sales tax, also become a recurring pain in the legislature’s side. ....