To close the state's budget gap Gov. M. Jodi Rell is proposing closing six commissions.
Representatives from several of them will testify before the legislature's appropriations committee Wednesday in hopes of saving the agencies from elimination.
The commissions specialize in issues affecting black residents, women, children, senior citizens, residents of Puerto Rican descent and those of Asian-Pacific American descent.
Rell is proposing existing state agencies to absorb the commissions' duties.
Rell proposed eliminating:
- The African-American Affairs Commission, established in 1997
- Commission on Aging, created in 1993
- Commission on Children, formed in 1985
- Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission, created in 1995
- Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, created in 1973
