Mandates draining police budgets- The New Haven Register - Serving New Haven, Connecticut: "Many chiefs agree state-required officer training is excessively expensive, and said they hope Gov. M. Jodi Rell will examine this area.
A 14-member panel of legislators, mayors and state leaders convened Thursday, tasked with identifying $84 million worth of mid-year cuts in state aid to municipalities Rell proposed.
Rell has called for a 3 percent reduction in state funding to cities and towns, but has left it to the bipartisan panel to identify specific cuts and ways to offset those reductions through mandate relief.
Vernon Police Chief James Kenney, in conjunction with panel member Vernon Mayor Jason McCoy, has sent a message to state chiefs asking them to identify costly unfunded mandates. Kenney and McCoy could not be reached for comment."
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