How Much Would Your Town Get Under Lamont’s Proposed Budget?

Some towns would gain and some would lose state funding under Gov. Ned Lamont’s proposal for town aid grants, including the Education Cost Sharing grant, the largest operating grant to K-12 school districts.

The state’s $2.3 billion Education Cost Sharing program would continue to follow a previously authorized schedule of increases, growing by more than $157 million in the first year of the new biennium and by another $11 million in the second.

Similarly, the grant that reimburses communities for a portion of the revenue they lose because certain properties are exempt from local taxation also will grow as planned, by about $40 million over the next two years combined.

The Goshen News has extracted the following data for the 11 towns within our readership area from the statewide tables published by CT Mirror.

Total aid: How much money might your town get from the state this year?

Total statutory formula aid according to Gov. Ned Lamont's proposed budget adjustments. The total number includes payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT), motor vehicle tax reimbursement, supplemental revenue sharing grant, Mashantucket Pequot & Mohegan fund grant, town aid road, local capital improvement (LoCIP), municipal grants-in-aid, education cost sharing and adult education.

Source: CT Office of Policy and Management

Some towns will see changes in the amount of education aid they receive.

Education Cost Sharing grant: How much money might your town get for your public schools?

Total educational cost sharing according to Gov. Ned Lamont's proposed budget adjustments.
 

Source: CT Office of Policy and Management