After a day filled with intense, last-minute negotiations, Democrats on the General Assembly’s Appropriations Committee appeared poised late Monday to bring the expenditure portion of a new, two-year spending budget to a vote Tuesday.
Full details were not available late Monday, but the package, according to sources would:
- Position the legislature to scrap the controversial shift of more than $400 million in teachers’ pension contributions onto cities and towns. This would be done through a combination of alternative spending reductions and revenue enhancements, the latter to be identified by the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee.
