By Jack Kramer, Correspondent

Town and city leaders across the state of Connecticut breathed a collective sigh of relief when the General Assembly at the end of October finally passed a $41 billion, two-year budget plan that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed because the spending plan mostly spared municipalities the kind of draconian monetary cuts that were first proposed months ago. But the good news was short lived. As last Friday, Malloy announced a decision to hold back $91 million in state aid, he said, to ensure the budget plan remains balanced.

Those cuts will hit some town pocketbooks in a small way – thousands of dollars – but it will hit some others much harder – millions of dollars. Bottom line is 160 out of Connecticut's 169 towns and cities will get less municipal aid grant money this current fiscal year than they did last year.

Nine towns will actually get more dollars in fiscal year 2018 than 2017, but those are primarily towns who didn't receive a lot of municipal aid, in comparison with other towns and cities, in the first place. In alphabetical order by town, Patch lists below the overall change in funding Connecticut towns and cities will receive in municipal aid, all grants, in the current fiscal year from last fiscal year, with Malloy's latest cuts added in:

—Andover, -299,804;

—Ansonia, -213,011;

—Ashford, -465,727; —Avon, -172,071;