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Post by cruzrt on May 2, 2006 18:54:28 GMT -5
Does anyone on the message board know what's been happening at the Council's Budget Workshops? Have they cut the budget? Have they cut or added items?
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Post by oldetowne on May 3, 2006 5:47:44 GMT -5
So far, it looks like (from the minutes posted) they have just been hearing from town staff and department heads, etc., as to why their parts of the budget are they way they are and things like that. I think they were waiting to see what the state budget was going to provide on the revenue side - and that information became available Monday afternoon. Usually it's a flurry of additions and subtractions at the very end of the process during the last day or two. My money (literally and figuratively) is on a 7% increase.
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Post by standish on May 3, 2006 6:38:30 GMT -5
Wouldn't it be good if we kept more tax/spend authority locally and didn't have to depend so much on the supposed largesse of remote State legislators who took our money in the first place?
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Post by SyZyGy on May 3, 2006 19:42:17 GMT -5
Hands in our pocKets,
Yet oUtstretched our hands Again:
CitIzens? or fools? |
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Post by oldetowne on May 4, 2006 5:44:58 GMT -5
That's great in theory. But with leaders who don't lead and voters who don't vote at the local level, the supposedly higher level of control and accountability is absent.
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Post by SyZyGy on May 4, 2006 6:03:41 GMT -5
On the lee side: Sitting on Charter,
Revision Commission said:
NO! to Budget votes.
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Post by standish on May 4, 2006 14:18:33 GMT -5
SYZYGY- Know whereof you speak before inserting foot: I was the commissioner who sponsored the resolution for a budget referendum and the only vote in favor.
OLDETOWNE- Though current leadership may not lead (some would argue they lead too much) and voters don't vote, at least we have the potential to effect change (remember the election before last). If the two, frick and frack parties fail to advance candidates, issues and platforms for which the voters care to vote, perhaps a third choice will arise. After the incumbent and two-party protection bill labeled as "campaign finance reform" passed, it is now only likely to happen on a local level.
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Post by SyZyGy on May 4, 2006 15:48:17 GMT -5
Sensitive spirit!
Be still, impetuous soul!
Shoe not meant for thee! |
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Post by standish on May 4, 2006 16:31:27 GMT -5
I should have realized that "On the Lee Side" was not a misspelling of my name... however, given the exotic prose on this board of late, I wasn't sure what else to make of it!
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Post by cruzrt on May 6, 2006 13:49:32 GMT -5
Has anyone heard what the final tax rate increase will be? There's a short news item in this week's Wethersfield Post on budget changes,but they are very small dollar amounts. I hear that the budget meetings are finished and that the meeting next week will just be an announcement of the new mill rate.
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Post by oldetowne on May 8, 2006 5:43:21 GMT -5
If there are no more changes, the Democratic budget increase for this year will be 7.42%. That would make an increase of about 40% over the past 3 years for the average taxpayer.
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Post by cruzrt on May 15, 2006 14:25:38 GMT -5
Do any of the posters know what the Council put into the Capital Improvement Program for his coming tax year. Last year, they made a last minute maneuver to fund the Cottone Field Artificial Surface without the public hearing about it. I have long suspected that the Cottone Lights would slide thru the same way. Any info from the posters will help, especially from those who seem to have inside knowledge of the workings of Town Hall.
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