Mayor Includes Tax Cut In Proposed Hamden Budget

HAMDEN, CT — Mayor Curt Balzano Leng has proposed a budget that includes the town’s first tax cut in a decade, according to the New Haven Register.

The Register reports Leng proposed a $22.3 million budget for 2017-18 to the Legislative Council this week that carries a 44.38 mill rate, one mill less than the current 45.38 mill rate.

The proposed budget includes $78 million for the Board of Education, but doesn’t include potential state education aid that could bring the total to about $85 million, and represents a 1.6 percent increase over this year’s school budget (the school board had sought a 2.4 percent increase), according to the Register.

The Register reports the budget includes an additional $10 million in aid from the state, which Leng said was the best estimate of what Hamden will receive but could ultimately change based on what the state does.

Read more at the New Haven Register here.