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Avon council authorizes rebuttal after state denies growth levy appeal
Summary
Following a state denial of its 1782 growth levy appeal, Avon officials voted to reject the state’s 1782 determination and submit a focused rebuttal seeking roughly $505,000 for recurring public‑safety costs; council approved Resolution 2026‑03 and directed staff to file before the Jan. 14 rebuttal deadline.
Avon — The Avon Town Council voted on Jan. 8 to authorize a rebuttal to the Department of Local Government Finance after the agency denied the town’s excess growth levy appeal, a decision town staff said was based on the DLGF’s finding that Avon had a “sufficient fund balance.”
Town manager Ryan Cannon told the council the denial notice arrived Dec. 31 and said the majority of the appeal sought levy relief to fund recurring public‑safety costs, including hiring three police officers. Cannon said staff prepared a narrower rebuttal focused on ongoing expenses and recommended rejecting the DLGF’s 1782 determination so the town could ask the agency to reconsider…
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