State Rep. Robert Godfrey, D-Danbury, told six superintendents and a dozen area board of education members that he doesn't think it is possible for Gov. M. Jodi Rell to give schools the same amount of state money next year as this year, as she promised Feb. 4 .
"It's going to be a very bloody and messy spring," Godfrey said Monday during a legislative breakfast that the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education held at Danbury's central office. "Don't count on the money she's announced as coming to school districts."
He believes Rell's 2009-11 proposed spending plan is at least $2.6 billion short of being balanced.
Rell's proposal is based on her budget office's estimate of a $6 billion deficiency. The state Office of Fiscal Analysis predicts it to be more like $8.6 billion.
In other words, don't believe what the governor is spewing, funding for municipalities WILL be cut.
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
