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On March 21, 2020, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont issued emergency Executive Order No. 7I providing for approval of FYE 2021 municipal and regional school district budgets without reference to the voters:
In acting to adopt the FYE 2021 budget, municipal budget-making authorities and regional board of educations must:
Pursuant to the Governor's emergency Executive Order No. 7C (Order 7C), issued March 15, all municipal and regional school district budget deadlines for the preparation of FYE 2021 budgets that fall on any date prior to and including May 15, 2020, are extended by 30 days. Municipal legislative bodies (for town meeting towns, boards of selectman) and regional board of educations may alter or modify the schedules and deadlines pertaining to the preparation and submission of a proposed budget and the deliberation or actions on the budget by the legislative body or other fiscal authority, including any required public hearing, publication, referendum or final budget adoption.
For purposes of Orders 7C and Order 7I, "municipalities" include all municipalities and quasi-municipal corporations, whether created by statute, ordinance, charter, legislative or special act, including but not limited to any town, city or borough, whether consolidated or unconsolidated, any village, school, sewer, fire, lighting, special services or special taxing districts, beach or improvement association, any regional water or resource recovery authority or any other political subdivision of the state or of any municipality having the power to make appropriations or to levy assessments or taxes.
Municipal legislative bodies and budget-making authorities and regional boards of education received relief in the Governor's emergency Executive Order No. 7B, issued March 14, (Order 7B) from the requirements of the State and local open meeting laws regarding remote participation in public agency meetings. Order 7B provides that Connecticut General Statutes Sections 1-206, 1-225 and 1¬226, and local open meeting charter, ordinance, or regulation provisions are suspended to the extent necessary to permit any public agency to meet and take such actions authorized by the law without permitting or requiring in-person, public access to such meetings, and to hold such meetings or proceedings remotely by conference call, videoconference or other technology, provided that:
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On November 22, Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy announced that he is appointing Jay Nolan to serve as his appointee on the state's recently created Municipal Accountability Review Board.
Day Pitney LLP has once again been recognized as Connecticut's number one bond counsel firm by volume, serving as bond counsel on issues in Connecticut totaling approximately $1.7 billion in 2016, according to The Bond Buyer, a daily newspaper serving the municipal bond industry.
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Hartford, Conn., May 26, 2016 - Day Pitney LLP represented the State of Connecticut as lead bond counsel and disclosure counsel in a general obligation refunding bond sale of $501.4 million. The sale resulted in saving of $75.5 million in debt service costs over the life of the refinanced bonds. The Nappier administration has an active debt refunding program which has saved taxpayers $1.1 billion to date.
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