Legislators to hear tentative budget plan today
"The choices are ugly"
Published: May 04, 2010
After hearing for the past three months about "ugly" budget-balancing options like imposing surcharges on electric bills and raiding clean energy programs that sustain thousands of jobs, state legislators could be asked as early as today to approve them.
Sources said Gov. M. Jodi Rell and the legislature's Democratic majority reached a tentative deal late Monday to balance the next state budget, including a borrowing plan to be financed with revenue from both controversial energy sources.
Send to friend
Printer-friendly version
I think everybody recognizes we have to do a budget and they recognize that the choices are ugly
-Denise W. Merrill
Comments
Post new comment