Brian Lockhart at the Advocate is reporting that a new bonding package might be in the making.

State Sen. President Pro Tempore Donald Williams, D-Brooklyn, said he hopes to have a new, two-year borrowing package for the legislature to consider by early next month.

“We hope to settle on something within the next two weeks,” said Williams, who spent the afternoon in Norwalk meeting with state Sen. Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, and members of the city’s AfterSchool Alliance. He also visited the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk.

Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell on Oct. 6 vetoed a $4.6 billion, Democrat-backed state bonding bill passed by the General Assembly Sept. 20, calling it too expensive.

Democrats did not have the votes in the Senate to override the veto, leaving Williams and House Speaker James Amann, D-Milford, to come up with a plan Rell would support.

Amann, during a visit to Norwalk on Thursday, said he and Williams were discussing a date to call lawmakers back into session to vote on a new package.

Williams yesterday said he is willing to make some concessions to Republicans concerned about a $1 billion, 10-year expansion of the state’s university system.

But he said the revised bonding bill will not include a wholesale downsizing of earmarks for projects in municipalities throughout the state - including $500,000 for the Maritime Aquarium.

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A few of the other local earmarks at risk are $3.2 million for flooding prevention in Norwalk, $1 million for dredging Norwalk Harbor, $2 million for the Child Guidance Center in Stamford and $1.5 million for the Bruce Museum in Greenwich.

Sen. Joan Hartley, D-Waterbury who criticized the $1 billion university bonding was right to do so. Williams should remove it and let the legislators vote on that separately.

source: Advocate, Dems plan to submit revised bond package, By Brian Lockhart, October 20 2007