Hartford, Conn. WTIC Radio)-Governor Ned Lamont's Infrastructure Advisor, Mark Boughton, promises directing the funds for Connecticut will have lean administrative costs and efforts will be made to eliminate waste and fraud, he said.
"We are going to spend maybe one million to spend six billion. We are not going to have a huge administration (regarding this). We are going to be flat and agile and move quickly when people need it. And the second piece is we'll be monitoring what and how these dollars are spent. That's to avoid the six-hundred-dollar toilet and things like that."
Boughton, also department of Revenue Services Commissioner, said the money is spent in two ways. The first is dedicated infrastructure money, which for Connecticut means an extra $36 million.
The second, he said, is competitive grants for municipalities.
"Because you have to get cities and towns to work together. You can't put in 169 different grant applications because they'll all get denied. And in some cases, you have to get states to work together. We've got to work with Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island and make sure we're all talking in that whatever project we do it'll benefit everybody. You have to make sure you get a certain amount of money within the inner cities in areas that have been historically neglected. It's a lot of work," Boughton said.
Boughton was a guest on the WTIC morning show.