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On Friday, Gov. Dannel Malloy announced a decision to hold back $91 million in state aid to keep the budget balanced.
With the budget changes from Malloy, a total of 160 municipalities will see budget cuts and nine will get more state funds, according to CT Mirror.
Only one town in Fairfield County — Sherman — will seen an increase in state funding, according to figures published by CT Mirror. The big losers — with seven-figure cuts in funding — include Bethel, Bridgeport, Fairfield and Stratford, CT Mirror reported.
Here is the overall change in municipal aid funding from last fiscal year for the towns and cities in Fairfield County, with Malloy's latest cuts added in:
- Bethel: -$1,143,927
- Bridgeport: -$6,361,222
- Brookfield: -$241,411
- Danbury: -$223,679
- Darien: -$28,164
- Easton: -$43,981
- Fairfield: -$1,141,283
- Greenwich: -$115,035
- Monroe: -$896,682
- New Canaan: -$13,413
- New Fairfield: -$601,205
- Newtown: -$861,622
- Norwalk: -$194,322
- Redding: -$62,954
- Ridgefield: -$177,258
- Shelton: -$934,599
- Sherman: +$2,233
- Stamford: -$258,287
- Stratford: -$3,199,303
- Trumbull: -$573,831
- Weston: -$63,142
- Westport: -$213,405
- Wilton: -$135,820
Click here for the story at CT Mirror.
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