The Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy (IMRP) became the successor organization to the Connecticut Institute for Municipal Studies (CIMS) in 2002 when leaders in the legislature and executive branch called upon Central Connecticut State University to build upon CIMS’s mission in an academic setting. Dr. Richard L. Judd, President of CCSU, appointed an advisory board of leaders of government, education, labor and business, and charged the Institute with providing long-range planning and policy development on a regional scale.