Bill Text: CT SB00538 | 2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Establishing An Office Of Regional Efficiency Development.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-05 - Motion Failed (JF) [SB00538 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2018-SB00538-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 538
February Session, 2018		LCO No. 3212
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Referred to Committee on FINANCE, REVENUE AND BONDING
Introduced by:
(FIN)

AN ACT ESTABLISHING AN OFFICE OF REGIONAL EFFICIENCY DEVELOPMENT.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2018) (a) There is established an Office of Regional Efficiency Development to oversee and coordinate the delivery of regional services to municipalities. Said office shall be within the Office of Policy and Management for administrative purposes only. The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall hire or assign sufficient staff for the Office of Regional Efficiency Development such that each region of the state is assigned at least one administrator and one staff person.

(b) The Office of Regional Efficiency Development shall identify municipal services that would be more efficiently delivered on a regional, rather than municipal, basis and would result in measurable reductions in property tax and improvements in service. Such services shall include, but not be limited to, emergency dispatch, property tax assessment and collection and administrative office functions. Said office shall develop, in consultation with municipal and regional stakeholders, short-term and long-term plans for such regional services identified and shall implement such plans.

Sec. 2. Section 4-66k of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2018):

[(a)] There is established an account to be known as the "regional planning incentive account" which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account within the General Fund. The account shall contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the account. Moneys in the account shall be expended by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management [in accordance with subsection (b) of this section for the purposes of first providing funding to regional planning organizations in accordance with the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section and then to providing grants under the regional performance incentive program established pursuant to section 4-124s] for the purposes of the Office of Regional Efficiency Development established pursuant to section 1 of this act.

[(b) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, funds from the regional planning incentive account shall be distributed to each regional planning organization, as defined in section 4-124i, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2013, in the amount of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars. Any regional council of governments that is comprised of any two or more regional planning organizations that voluntarily consolidate on or before December 31, 2013, shall receive an additional payment in an amount equal to the amount the regional planning organizations would have received if such regional planning organizations had not voluntarily consolidated.

(c) Beginning in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, and annually thereafter, funds from the regional planning incentive account shall be distributed to each regional council of governments formed pursuant to section 4-124j, in the amount of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars plus fifty cents per capita, using population information from the most recent federal decennial census. Any regional council of governments that is comprised of any two or more regional planning organizations, as defined in section 4-124i, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2013, that voluntarily consolidated on or before December 31, 2013, shall receive a payment in the amount of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars for each such regional planning organization that voluntarily consolidated on or before said date.]

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2018	New section
Sec. 2	July 1, 2018	4-66k

Statement of Purpose:

To establish an Office of Regional Efficiency Development to identify and improve the delivery of municipal services on a regional basis.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]