"Just the Facts"

No spin. No jargon. CCM's aggressive statewide advocacy campaign to carry the municipal message through the critical budget-making process up to the end of the 2013 General Assembly session.

The CCM message is concise and straightforward:

CCM's "Just the Facts" campaign delivers a message that clearly states the consequences of proposed cuts in municipal aid and new unfunded state mandates.  

This new ad campaign urges state leaders to do no harm to municipalities by passing a state budget that protects municipal revenues, residential and business property taxpayers, and the quality of life in Hometown Connecticut. 

CCM ANALYSES/RESPONSES
to  Proposed State Budget

• CCM Responds To MORE Commission Recommendations Presidented on May 21 By House Speaker Brendan Sharkey -- CCM News Release, May 21, 2013

• MORE Commission, Final Recommendations -- Attachment To CCM News Release  -- CCM, May 21, 2013

• Appropriations and Finance Committees'  Proposed FY2014 State Budget: Impacts On Towns And Cities -- CCM, May 14, 2013

• Appropriations and Finance Committees' Proposed FY2014 State Budget: Aid To Municipalities-- CCM, May 14, 2013

• CCM Memo To MORE Commision on Final Recommendations of Subcommittees  -- CCM, May 14, 2013

• With Three Weeks To Go in Session: CCM Begins Airing Radio Message on May 13, Calling On State Legislators To Say "No! To Unfunded State Mandates"  -- CCM News Release, May 13, 2013

• Click Here to Read Attachment to CCM May 13 News Release -- on Special Cardiac Benefits  -- CCM, May 13, 2013

• Click Here to Read Attachment to CCM May 13 News release -- on Special Mental Stress Benefits  -- CCM, May 13, 2013

• Click Here to Listen to CCM's New Radio Spot -- Say No To Unfunded State Mandates  -- CCM, May 13, 2013

• Updated CCM Analysis for Municipal Aid -  Appropriations Proposed FY2014 Budget -- CCM, May 13, 2013

• Click Hear to Listen To May 7 Update on Statewide CCM Radio Spot -- Do No Harm To Towns and Cities -- CCM, May 7, 2013

• CCM Analysis of State Budget Proposals: Town Aid Road (TAR) and the Local Capital Improvement Program (LoCIP) -- CCM, May 1, 2013

• FY2014 TAR Estimates, Attachment to CCM Analysis, May 1, 2013

• FY2014 LoCIP Estimates, Attachment to CCM Analysis, May 1, 2013

• FY2014 Appropriations Change in Unrestricted General Fund Revenue By House District, CCM, April 29, 2013

• FY2014 Appropriations Change in Unrestricted General Fund Revenue by Senate District, CCM, April 29, 2013

• FY2014 Appropriations Budget Analysis, CCM, April 29, 2013

• CCM "Ask" - Post Approps/Finance -- State Budget and Towns and Cities, CCM, April 23, 2013

• Click Here To Hear New Updated Version of CCM Radio Message: Do No Harm To Towns And Cities -- CCM Radio Spot, April 23, 2013

• Change in Municipal General Fund Revenue (Unrestricted) in FY14 Under Appropriations Committee's and Governor's Proposed Budget -- CCM, April 23, 2013

• Change in Municipal General Fund Revenue (Unrestricted) in FY14 Ranked by Town Loss -- CCM, April 23, 2013

• Impact of Governor's Proposed Budget: Legislative Leadership, Appropriations and Finance Committee Members'  Districts -- April 10, 2013
• Remarks by CCM President from CCM Day on Hill -- April 10, 2013
• Talking Points On Non-Education Municipal Aid from CCM Day on Hill -- April 10, 2013
• Talking Points on Mandates Relief from CCM Day on the Hill -- April 10, 2013
• "The List" -- Solutions for Reasonable Relief from 12 Unfunded Mandates, from CCM Day on the Hill  -- April 10, 2013
• Short-Term Mandates Relief Strategy, from CCM Day on the Hill -- April 10, 2013
• Talking Points on Relief from Legal Notices Mandate, from CCM Day on the Hill -- April 10, 2013
• Talking Points on the Manufacturing Transition Grant from CCM Day on the Hill -- April 10, 2013
• Challenge of Financing Local Government in Connecticut -- CCM News Release and Editorial Background Bulletint, March 26, 2013

• Total Motor Vehicle Tax Revenues Town-By-Town - FY12
• Estimated Town-by-Town Impact of Governor's Motor-Vehicle Property-Tax Examption Proposal

RELATED NEWS STORIES
on Governor's Proposed State Budget

• Senate President Calls For Spending Cap Change To Free Up Resources For Critical Enterprises -- Associated Press, May 21, 2013

• Commission Calls For Eliminating Municipal Public Notices in Daily Newspapers -- Hartford Courant, May 21, 2013

• MORE Panel Also Backs Car Tax Repeal, But Not For Several More Years -- CT Mirror, May 21, 2013

• Lawmakers Float Statewide Motor Vehicle Tax -- CT News Junkie, May 21, 2013

• Town and City Advocates Call For More Local Aid In State Budget -- CT Post, Stamford Advocarte, Danbury News-Times, April 24, 2013

• Legislative Committee Proposes Restoring Some Funds for Municipalities, Less For Education  -- New London Day, April 24, 2013

• Towns Call Dibs On Any April WIndfall In State Tax Receipts -- CT Mirror, April 23, 2013

• OPM Secretary Barnes Predicts State Surplus -- CT News Junkie, April 23, 2013

• CT Lawmakers Pass Budget Bills, Talks To Begin -- Boston Globe, April 22, 2013

• Dems Offer State Budget Proposal, Spending Plan On The Table -- Waterbury Republican-American, April 22, 2013

• Appropriations Panel Presents Review of Malloy's $44 Million State Budget -- CT Post, April 22, 2013

• Democratic Committee Budget Would Hike Spending By 10 Percent -- Hartford Courant, April 19, 2013

• GOP Criticizes Democratic Budget Plans; CCM's Finley, "It's Crunch Time" as CCM Starts Radio Message -- Hartford Courant, April 18, 2013

• Opposition Growing to Malloy Education Funding Plan -- CT Mirror, April 12, 2013

• Malloy Budget Under Fire By Mayors -- Waterbury Republican-American, April 11, 2013

• Education Committee Restores PILOT Funds To Cities And Towns -- New London Day, April 11, 2013

• Towns and Cities Looking For More Money; Committee Deadlines in Next Two Weeks -- Hartford Courant, April 10, 2013

• CCM Day on the Hill Briefing -- the Connecticut Network (CTN), April 10, 2013

• Municipal Leaders Meet in Hartford; Voice Concern Over Budget-- WFSB-TV, Channel 3, April 10, 2013

• CCM-Member Mayors and First Selectmen Keep Up Pressure On Lawmakers To Maintain Funding -- CT News Junkie, April 10, 2013
• Municipal Leaders From Across CT To Assemble for April 10 CCM Day On The Hill -- News Conference Set For 11 A.M.  -- CCM News Release, April 9, 2013

CCM POLICY POSITIONS - 2013

2013 Legislative Priorities

2013 Legislative Program

CCM's State Legislative Proposals to Reduce Gun Violence

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CCM PUBLIC POLICY REPORTS

• Education Finance in Connecticut: Overreliance on the Property Tax -- CCM Public Policy Report, November 2012

• Municipal Finance in Connecticut: Overreliance on the Property Tax -- CCM Candidate Bulletin, October 2012

• Unfunded Mandates = Higher Property Taxes -- CCM Candidate Bulletin, September 2012

ADDITIONAL CCM RESOURCES

CCM's Annual Reports on the General Assembly

CCM, State and Local News

Government Finance/State Budget

General Assembly Handbook