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The following is a list of public school districts in Connecticut. The majority of school districts are dependent on town and municipal governments. The U.S. Census Bureau counts the regional school districts, which are governed by independent school boards and cover at least two towns, as individual governments. [1]
Towns traditionally have a town meeting form of government; under the Home Rule Act, however, towns are free to choose their own government structure. Nineteen of the towns in Connecticut are consolidated city-towns, and one is a consolidated borough-town. City incorporation requires a Special Act by the Connecticut General Assembly. All cities ...
A representative town meeting, also called "limited town meeting", is a form of municipal legislature particularly common in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and permitted in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Representative town meetings function largely the same as open town meetings, except that not all registered voters can participate or vote ...
Towns in Connecticut are allowed to adopt a city form of government without the need to re-incorporate as a city. Connecticut state law also makes no distinction between a consolidated town-city and a regular town. There are currently twenty incorporated cities in Connecticut. Nineteen of these cities are coextensive with their towns, with the ...
As of 2021, districts 1, 2, and 4 have six representatives, and district 3 has seven, giving the Town Meeting a total of 25 elected members. In 2021, ten Democrats, one Unaffiliated and fourteen Republicans were elected to the body. As of the 2021 election results, [18] the Representatives of the Waterford Town Meeting are:
This list of high schools in the state of Connecticut is a sortable table. To sort alphabetically by the subject of each column, click on the triangles in each column heading. A second click reorders the list in reverse alphabetical order by that column. The default order for the list is alphabetically by community name.
Open town meeting is the form of town meeting in which all registered voters of a town are eligible to vote, together acting as the town's legislature. Town Meeting is typically held annually in the spring, often over the course of several evenings, but there is also provision to call additional special meetings.
Bridgeport City Hall; Deep River Town Hall; Enfield Town Meetinghouse; Greenwich Town Hall; Hartford Municipal Building; New Haven City Hall and County Courthouse; Norwalk City Hall; Old Town Hall (Stamford, Connecticut) Waterbury City Hall — part of Waterbury Municipal Center Complex; Town Hall (Westport, Connecticut) (former; moved ...