Commission on Mandates to Cities and Towns records
Scope and Content
Includes memorandums, correspondence, notices of meetings, meeting minutes of both the full Commission and the subcommittees, reports, surveys, hearing transcripts, lists of mandates, lists of Commission members, text of legislation, notes, fiscal notes and impact statements, newspaper clippings, consultants reports, and research reference materials.
Dates
- 1974, 1980-1984
- Majority of material found within 1980-1984
Language of Materials
The records are in English.
Restrictions on Access
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Historical Note
The Commission was established by Special Act 81-72 to address the ongoing concerns of cities and towns regarding state mandated programs and regulations. The commission was composed of 27 members. The legislature charged the Commission with identifying and cataloguing existing state mandates as well as studying the fiscal impact on local governments. The Commission divided itself into three subcommittees: Education, Tax Exemptions and Finance, and General Government. The Commission held its first meeting on September 30, 1981. Through the use of surveys, public hearings and consultant studies, the commission issued its final report on January 5, 1983.
The Interim Study Committee on State Mandates was established by Public Act 83-12 to review the provisions of sections 1 and 2 of the act; the feasability of appending an estimate to each bill indicating the type of state mandate and if it creates no new mandate, clarifies a mandate with no substantive changes, imposes additional duties that can be carried out by existing staff at no net increase in cost, creates additional costs but provides offsetting savings resulting in no increase in net costs, imposes a cost largely recovered from federal, state or other external financial aid, or imposes additional net costs of less than one thousand dollars for a single local government or less than fifty thousand dollars on a statewide basis; and submit recommendations to the joint standing committee on Appropriations not later than February 1, 1984, concerning the feasability of a pilot program with respect to any new or expanded state mandates in a subject matter area designated by the Committee. The Committee held its first organizational meeting on September 19, 1983.
Extent
1 cubic foot
Abstract
The Commission was established by Special Act 81-72 to address the ongoing concerns of cities and towns regarding state mandated programs and regulations. The legislature charged the Commission with identifying and cataloguing existing state mandates as well as studying the fiscal impact on local governments. The Interim Study Committee on State Mandates was established by Public Act 83-12. The records consist of memorandums, correspondence, notices of meetings, meeting minutes of both the full Commission and the subcommittees, reports, surveys, hearing transcripts, lists of mandates, lists of Commission members, text of legislation, notes, fiscal notes and impact statements, newspaper clippings, consultants reports, and research reference materials.
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- Connecticut Association of Urban Superintendents Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Connecticut Conference of Municipalities Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Connecticut Natural Gas Company Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Connecticut. General Assembly. Appropriations Committee Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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- Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations -- Connecticut Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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- Minutes (administrative records) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
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- State-local relations -- Connecticut Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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- Title
- RG 002:025, Commission on Mandates to Cities and Towns
- Subtitle
- Inventory of Records
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Connecticut State Library staff.
- Date
- 2018
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
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Repository Details
Part of the Connecticut State Library Repository
