However, this fell shy of the original budget estimate because of the delayed opening of the Mohegan Sun casino. As concern grows for this continued trend, maybe the time for state budget conversion to GAAP, which is scheduled to begin in FY 2000, has finally come. The Response Has Been Overwhelming Close to 13,000 copies of CPEC Foundation's new 1997 Connecticut Municipal Guide have been distributed in under a month's time. The guide utilizes CPEC's extensive database to provide information on local economies, spending, taxes and schools for all of the state's 169 cities and towns. Municipalities are grouped into six regions so that comparisons can be made between cities and towns as well as with the statewide average.
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If you are interested in more detailed municipal information, there's CPEC's Connecticut Municipal Budgets 1995-96. Please note that the 1996-97 edition is due out in the spring of 1998. We've been hard at work revamping and improving our Web site. Try out CPEC's new relational municipal database. Choose from a list of 20 towns and with a keystroke you can compare up to five towns on a variety of key indicators.