Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has agreed to take potential cuts in municipal aid “off the table” in exchange for laying off another 1,000 state employees, according to the CTNewsJunkie report.
The layoffs would come in addition to the 5,500 previously announced.
According to The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities Canton was set to lose about $66,000, mostly from Town Aid Road Grants.
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CCM predicted that West Hartford would hae lost $230,615. Farmington would have lost $236,737 and Simsbury was going to lose $97,368.
The news came after legislators convened today to begin a special session to deal with the projected $1.6 billion deficit in the state budget left by the rejected concession deal with state employees.
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