In her final State of the State address as governor, M. Jodi Rell made it clear that creating jobs and balancing the state’s growing $515 million budget deficit should be lawmaker’s top priority.
“Thousands of trees will be felled for the hundreds of bills that will be filed on dozens of topics,” Rell said. “But our efforts, our energies, this session should be focused on just two core issues: creating jobs and balancing our state budget.”
Rell has proposed a revised $18.9 billion budget plan for fiscal 2010-2011 that includes no new taxes and fees. But it depends on hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus funds and deferring pension contributions to balance the budget.
