Looks like the Norwalk-outers lose one of their own in the “Corda’s Last Stand” resolution being proposed by Matt Miklave, Gwenn Briggs, Doug Sutton and Kevin Poruban. Bill Krummel has seen the light, or rather the sewage, and skipped out of the battle of little budget horn. Bruce Kimmel has adopted the “bring home the bacon” meme, stating “Along with that, we need to press our state legislators into bringing the bacon home to Norwalk to fund our school system.” The that he was referring to was the Corda Compromise plan, where he said, “To raise the cap would require a tax increase, whereas my proposal and (Corda’s) proposal would not,” Kimmel said. “It would be a good idea for the (schools) superintendent to sit down with the mayor and the finance director and come down with a hard number anywhere from $1 million to $1.5 million.”
So let’s see if Kimmel and Corda can manage to communicate to the outers that “Fully funding the BOE budget with an additional $3.2 million” is not even on the table because Corda has dropped the additional funding request to $1 - 1.5 million. And Corda dropped this because, miracles upon miracles, they found budget savings. ANd they found budget savings because they were forced to by the budget recommendations by the BET.
So what sort of budget savings could be made? Mike Lyons, BET member, provided a few documents that might provide some ideas.
Tonight there’s a public hearing by the council’s Planning Committee at 8 p.m. on the capital budget of $12.2 million. The capital budget plan calls for the city borrowing $6.1 million.
Also tonight Democracy For America hosts Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy Dinardo at the Silverstar diner at 7pm.
And finally, the famous “nail house” stand off has reached its conclusion, with with a negotiated agreement that has their house being demolished.
Feel free to use the comments to talk about anything.
