State Rep. Bill Buckby urges changes to ECS formula and explains legislative "short session" pressures
State Rep. Bill Buckby described Connecticut's long and short legislative sessions, warned that compressing work into short sessions limits public input, and backed a proposal to raise the ECS foundation amount per pupil from $11,525 to $18,681 with automatic inflation adjustments to relieve municipal property-tax pressure.
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State Rep. Bill Buckby, the representative for New Milford's 67th District, used a town livestream to explain the difference between Connecticut—————————long and short legislative sessions and to press for changes to the state's Educational Cost Sharing (ECS) formula.
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