Place v. City of Waterbury

Opinion

PETERS, J.

This civil appeal concerns the relationship between staff members of a federally funded regional agency and the city, within the agency’s service area, that administers the agency’s grant money. At issue is whether the city must make fiscal contributions to a deferred compensation plan that agency staff members chose to fund their pensions. That question, in turn, depends upon whether the staff members were city employees for pension purposes.1 In a careful and comprehensive memorandum of decision, the trial *221court found that they were not and, accordingly, rendered judgment…