DeStefano banks on past PILOT funding for city’s budget
Mayor John DeStefano Jr. relies on over $3 million in uncertain funds from the state — including an assumed increase in state PILOT money — in order to balance his budget.
The $464 million city budget for fiscal year 2010, which DeStefano unveiled in a presentation at City Hall on Thursday, represents a $9 million increase over the fiscal 2009 budget. But the budget hinges on several assumptions — including that the state legislature will allocate the same amount of PILOT funding to New Haven as it did the year before. The budget also assumes that $3 million of that increase will...
