Donovan accuses Gov. of hiding $100 mil
Posted by Mark Davis, WTNH Chief Political Correspondent on December 14th, 2009
Wallingford (WTNH) – Lawmakers are scheduled to address the latest round of budget cuts Tuesday. The Speaker of the House is accusing the Governor of not telling the whole story in the budget crisis.
The Director of the Wallingford Community Day Care Center, Kathy Queen, is predicting that hundreds of kids at the state’s 105 community day care centers will lose access to pre-school programs if the Governor’s latest budget cuts become law.
“Force 600 parents to quit their jobs in order to care for their children leads to the closing of multiple child care center and layoffs of almost 100 teachers,” said Queen.
A teacher brought kids from the Burns Early Learning Center in Hartford to the Capitol to demonstrate the point that $121 million in cuts will affect kids statewide of all ages.
“[In total], 36 percent of the $337 million in cuts proposed by the Governor directly target our children,” said Rep. Toni Walker [D] of the Human Services Committee.
“It would mean that 4,800 at risk youth would remain on our streets, tempted by all of the illegal temptations that our teenagers are faced with,” said Joe Andreana of Connecticut Boy & Girls Clubs, Inc.
The Governor keeps saying that everyone has to give to get us out of this crisis.
“She doesn’t tell us the whole story,” said Rep. Chris Donovan [D], Speaker of the House.
Rep. Donovan accused the Governor of hiding millions of dollars in potential savings from him and the public; that a section in the Governor’s agreement with the state labor unions could produce another huge round of savings.
“There are provisions for the Governor to save another $100 million in that agreement,” said Rep. Donovan.
Because of that, and the potential that the spending cuts will result in thousands of job losses, Rep. Donovan said there will be no action on the budget at Wednesday’s scheduled Special Session.
A spokesman for the Governor said the $100 million savings provision in the union agreement has never been hidden from anyone.
While there will be no action on the budget, Tuesday, Rep. Donovan said he expects some action before Christmas.
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~Peace Glenna~
First off, budgets should have been frozen at 2007 levels, from municipalities to federal government...because of the severity of this financial mess, at least for a minimum for 5 years....this would give time to see just how much LESS revenue will be coming in( and there WILL be less...) and try to adjust to it...THEN you start cutting...and there are TONS of things that CAN be cut...........our smoke & mirror life styles have to change in this country and some of that will take time...then simple math takes over.....money coming in Vs the money going out.........THAT will accelerate on what needs to be looked at to be eliminated...and DONT move the money around...meaning if $1,000,000 is saved somewhere just MOVE that to something else......money NEEDS to be saved here, not just another shell game that in the long run winds up costing us MORE...in a way, thats whats going on here now...even when we have had surplus's, we were borrowing money...THAT was sick and we are paying the price for it now.....
property taxes & income taxes need to be left the hell ALONE....... DONT put anymore financial strain on people NOW......we are payin ENOUGH that we cant keep up with...takes some of these "mandates" on spending and stick em where the sun dont shine.....where is "MY" mandates on receiving MORE money??? when THAT happens THEN lets talk keeping up with the pathetic "mandates"....
Then the "scare tactics"...
"" “It would mean that 4,800 at risk youth would remain on our streets, tempted by all of the illegal temptations that our teenagers are faced with,” said Joe Andreana of Connecticut Boy & Girls Clubs, Inc. ""
I got news for some of you...the "illegal temptations" will STILL be there.........they are there when the times are GOOD and they are there when the times are BAD..........
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