The State Budget's Impact on Contributions to Wethersfield

It isn't usual when towns are getting less money, or in some rare cases more money, than they've gotten the previous year for leaders to be thankful. But considering what could have been, the budget passed by the House and Senate is much better news for Wethersfield, as well as some other towns in north central Connecticut.

Here is a look at how the $41.34 billion, two-year budget passed by a 126-23 vote in the House and a 33-3 vote in the Senate this week affects some towns in north central Connecticut:

• Ellington will be receiving $531,000 less this year than it did last year; next year it will get $217,000 less than fiscal year 2017
• Glastonbury be getting $407,000 less in state funding this current fiscal year than it did in the 2017 fiscal year. For the next fiscal year, 2019, Glastonbury will be getting $612,000 less in state funding than it did in 2017
• Manchester will be receiving the same amount of funding this fiscal year that it did in the 2017 fiscal year. For the next fiscal year, 2019, Manchester will be receiving $152,000 less in state funding than it does this year
• Rocky Hill will be receiving $313,000 less in state funding this current fiscal year than it did in the 2017 fiscal year. For the next fiscal year, 2019, Rocky Hill will be receiving $390,000 less in state funding than it did in 2017.
• Somers will be receiving $325,000 less in state funding this fiscal year than it did last; it will receive $584,000 less in 2019 then it did in 2017
• South Windsor will will receive $758,000 less this fiscal year than it did last; in 2019 it will receive $846,000 less than it received last year
• Southington will receive $1.1 million less this fiscal year; next year it will receive $452,000 less than it received in 2017
• Tolland will receive $573,000 less this fiscal year; it will receive $726,000 less next fiscal year than it did in 2017
• Vernon will receive the same amount of funding this fiscal year; $76,000 less next fiscal year
• Wethersfield will receive $553,000 less this fiscal year; $507,00 less next fiscal year than it received in 2017

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget planned to take much more away from the towns – in some
cases in the millions of dollars – in an effort to divert education funding to the poorer, bigger
cities in the state.

The good news for the towns is the House and Senate votes passed by a substantial margin –
meaning they are veto proof, as Malloy has said he will likely veto the budget if it doesn’t meet
his goals.

Written By Jack Kramer, Patch Correspondent

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