Stamford Elections

George Hallenbeck (R)

CT House, District 146

Parties Republican

Position Telecommunications professional, Rear Commander with the United Power Squadrons, former Young Mariner Education Officer

Email [email protected]

Phone 203-348-7121

No website listed

Do you support the resolution to amend our state constitution to allow for early voting in Connecticut?

Nov. 3rd is our national election day. Adding it as a national holiday might improve voter participation.

After the recent power outages resulting from Tropical Storm Isais, there was a call for increased regulation of our state's utility companies. Do you believe new legislation to regulate utilities is required? Please explain.

I support the recent legislation covering our states Utility Company. What I would really like to see is real competition in the form of additional suppliers.

What will you do to increase state funding to Stamford? What barriers do you see and how will you overcome them? (For public schools -- Stamford gets among the lowest if not the lowest level of funding from the state.)

The formula (The Education Cost Sharing: ECS) used to calculate the state funding need to be adjusted based on the most recent census. Currently there is a significant imbalance between what Stamford contributes and the proportion that is returned when compared to Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford. Ref: ctschoolfinance.org . The Education Cost Sharing (ECS) currently accounts for well over 50% of the total state contribution to public and secondary education.

COVID spurred the introduction of live online access to legislative sessions. Would you support an effort to make this a permanent addition to our process? Do you have other COVID-related priorities?

I support a more robust Online access to legislative sessions.
COVID has shown us the need to develop alternative means of communicating.