August 29–30 Agenda — Connecticut Citizens' Assembly

OMNI New Haven Hotel

155 Temple Street, New Haven, CT

Day 1

Saturday, August 29, 2026

8:00 AM	Breakfast Buffet OMNI Hotel Ballroom Area C&D
9:00 AM	Session 1: Welcome & Framing Plenary · OMNI Hotel Ballroom A&B Kenya Rutland, Lead Facilitator, KJR Consulting
9:20 AM	Session 2: Citizen Governance Committee (CGC) Update Plenary Gryffin Wilkens-Plumley and the current CGC
9:35 AM	Session 3: Property Tax Drivers Recap Plenary Joe DeLong, Director & CEO, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities
10:35 AM	Session 4: AI Usage Overview Plenary Hélène Landemore, Yale University Sulekha Kishore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
10:55 AM	Break OMNI Hotel Ballroom Area D
11:10 AM	Session 5: Property Tax Driver Reform Ideation OMNI Ballroom & Temple Room Kenya Rutland and the KJR Facilitation Team Subgroups will begin the process of deliberating reform ideas in small groups.
12:30 PM	Lunch OMNI Hotel Ballroom Area C&D CGC Office Hours: Questions/issues regarding Citizen governance. Weekend 4 motions must be submitted by end-of-day on Saturday. Landemore-Kishore Office Hours: Questions regarding AI usage
1:30 PM	Session 5: Reform Ideation Continued OMNI Ballroom & Temple Room Kenya Rutland and the KJR Facilitation Team Subgroups engage in a gallery walk of the reform ideas documented by each group.
2:45 PM	Break OMNI Hotel Ballroom D
3:00 PM	Session 6: Property Tax Driver Reform Ideation Report Out Plenary Kenya Rutland, Lead Facilitator, KJR Consulting Subgroup Representatives
3:40 PM	Session 7: Property Tax Driver Reform Assembly Review & Input Plenary Kenya Rutland and the KJR Facilitation Team
4:25 PM	Session 8: Debrief & End-of-Day Recap Plenary Kenya Rutland, Lead Facilitator, KJR Consulting
5:10 PM	Adjourn for the Day & Hotel Check-in (for those staying overnight)
6:30 – 8:30 PM	Assembly Dinner (optional) OMNI Ballroom Area C&D Buffet dinner served at 6:30 PM; dessert & coffee/tea served at 7:30 PM

Day 2

Sunday, August 30, 2026

8:00 AM	Breakfast Buffet OMNI Hotel Ballroom Area C&D
9:00 AM	Session 1: Welcome & Overnight Recap Plenary · OMNI Hotel Ballroom A&B
9:20 AM	Session 2: The Legislative Process Plenary Moderator: Sean Scanlon, State of Connecticut Comptroller Panel 1 "Looking Back" on Previous Efforts to Reform the CT Property Tax System and Past Roadblocks to Reform Martin Looney, Senate President John McKinney, Former Senate GOP Leader Panel 2 "Looking Forward" to How Legislative Leaders Navigate Finding Consensus on Tough Issues Jason Rojas, House Majority Leader Vin Candelora, House Minority Leader
10:20 AM	Session 3: Assembly Decision-Making Parameters Plenary Hélène Landemore, Yale University Michael Morrell, University of Connecticut
10:50 AM	Break OMNI Hotel Ballroom Area C&D
11:10 AM	Session 4: "Is This Us?" Review Plenary · OMNI Hotel Ballroom A&B Kenya Rutland and the KJR Facilitation Team Time for citizens to digest and discuss the reports, debate proposed reform ideas, and indicate support or opposition to each reform idea prioritized on Saturday.
12:30 PM	Lunch OMNI Hotel Ballroom Area C&D CGC Office Hours: Questions/suggestions only; no motions
1:15 PM	Session 4: "Is This Us?" Continued Kenya Rutland and the KJR Facilitation Team
3:00 PM	Break OMNI Hotel Ballroom C&D
3:15 PM	Session 4: "Is This Us?" Continued Kenya Rutland and the KJR Facilitation Team
4:15 PM	Session 5: Motions & CGC Selection for Weekend 5 Gryffin Wilkens-Plumley and the CGC
4:45 PM	Session 6: Recap and Preview of Next Steps Kenya Rutland, Lead Facilitator, KJR Consulting
5:00 PM	Adjourn
5:30 – 6:30 PM	CGC Debrief Meeting

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