POLICY

Where your property taxes actually go, and what a state representative can do about it.

Five things decide what Suffield, East Granby and Windsor Locks pay and what they get back from Hartford. Every number on these pages comes from a state agency or a town budget, and the source is named.

Sources: adopted town budgets FY2027; Connecticut State Department of Education, district profiles, expenditures by revenue source 2023-24.

FIVE PILLARS

$3,236

Education

what the state sends Suffield per student

It costs more than $21,000 to educate that student. Your property taxes cover the rest. Same story for East Granby and Windsor Locks. A decision on $152 million comes to the legislature in January.

Farming

acres preserved in 2024, against an average of 1,211

The tools to keep farms in business now exist in law. The money, the staff and the assessment protection every farm in Suffield, East Granby and Windsor Locks depends on do not.

Safety & Mobility

the microtransit vote. Our representative was one of the 13.

Six state routes, decided in Hartford. Safe sidewalks that start and stop, and two of three towns with no bus service at all.

the year the airport payment to our towns was set in law

Fueling Economic Opportunity

The airport expands under a $1.4 billion plan. The payment to the towns that host it has not moved in more than a decade.

Property Taxes

in state school aid, spent somewhere every year

Whatever you think of the size of state government, that money will be distributed. The only question is whether our towns get their share.

Not pillars, but questions people ask at the door, answered in writing.

Electricity costs and utility accountability

Artificial Intelligence and data centers

Heating Oil THIS WINTER

James Mol

POLICY

Where your property taxes actually go, and what a state representative can do about it.

Five things decide what Suffield, East Granby and Windsor Locks pay and what they get back from Hartford. Every number on these pages comes from a state agency or a town budget, and the source is named.

Sources: adopted town budgets FY2027; Connecticut State Department of Education, district profiles, expenditures by revenue source 2023-24.

FIVE PILLARS

$3,236

Education

what the state sends Suffield per student

It costs more than $21,000 to educate that student. Your property taxes cover the rest. Same story for East Granby and Windsor Locks. A decision on $152 million comes to the legislature in January.

693

Farming

acres preserved in 2024, against an average of 1,211

The tools to keep farms in business now exist in law. The money, the staff and the assessment protection every farm in Suffield, East Granby and Windsor Locks depends on do not.

137–13

Safety & Mobility

the microtransit vote. Our representative was one of the 13.

Six state routes, decided in Hartford. Safe sidewalks that start and stop, and two of three towns with no bus service at all.

2013

the year the airport payment to our towns was set in law

Fueling Economic Opportunity

The airport expands under a $1.4 billion plan. The payment to the towns that host it has not moved in more than a decade.

$2.46B

Property Taxes

in state school aid, spent somewhere every year

Whatever you think of the size of state government, that money will be distributed. The only question is whether our towns get their share.

THREE POSITIONS

Not pillars, but questions people ask at the door, answered in writing.