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House Minority Leader Themis Klarides and Senate Republican leader Len Fasano
A new state plan to pay off nearly $550 million of Hartfords bonded debt led some legislators Wednesday to consider reducing other forms of aid to the capital city.
Asserting the plan never was properly authorized by legislators, House and Senate Republicans pledged Wednesday to try to reduce grants to the capital city to offset disputed debt assistance.
The GOP caucuses also called on Gov. Dannel P. Malloys administration and state Treasurer Denise L. Nappier, a Hartford Democrat, not to implement the new arrangement. But both offices signed it Wednesday. The deal also has been approved by the City Council.
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Read the full article at: https://ctmirror.org/2018/03/28/debt-assistance-cost-hartford-state-aid/
