For more than two decades, state government has cut the amount of the casino gaming revenues it shares with all cities and towns.
But municipal advocates urged Gov. Ned Lamont and the General Assembly Wednesday to reverse that trend, noting that while budget caps have kept state coffers flush, inadequate aid has left many communities struggling.
“It was a great injustice,” New London Mayor Michael Passero, president of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, said during a morning press conference at the Capitol.
“Revenues which were intended for municipalities — especially municipalities like mine — started to be diverted [in 2002] because of the state’s own fiscal woes,” he added.
