Groups providing services to people with mental health, substance abuse, and developmental disabilities are worried about Governor Dannel Malloy's proposal to make additional spending cuts to Connecticut's new budget in order to roll back business tax increases.
The governor announced a plan last week to scrap about $224 million in tax increases over two years, following an outcry from some of the state's major employers.
To make up the revenue, Malloy said legislators could grant him authority to cut spending up to 1.5 percent across the board. Or, he said, lawmakers could make the reductions themselves.
The Connecticut Mirror reports that Sen. Beth Bye, co-chair of the Appropriations Committee, said the governor's proposed business tax cuts might have been better received if he was willing to scale back transportation funding.
Clients and providers of human service agencies plan to hold a news conference on Tuesday to express their concerns about revisiting spending cuts. They said the new two-year, $40.3 billion budget is bare bones.
This report contains information from The Associated Press. Rob Dozier is an intern at WNPR.
