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Old 03-06-2017, 05:37 PM
 
Location: Northern Fairfield Co.
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My kind of smallish town (a little less than 14k population) faces losing $4 million in this years' draconian cuts. Our Board of Selectmen is actually contemplating flouting State law by delaying the deadline to put together their budget, until after they know the bottom line numbers from the State. Projections in my town, if school and town budgets don't increase by a penny over last year, equate to a 9% property tax increase. That's a really hard eff-** pill to swallow. Thoughts?
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Old 03-06-2017, 06:17 PM
 
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My town has already told us they are raising mill rate. The town manager has said since the proposed budgets will hit us hard (about $6m) they have too. The only positive is that since my town has gained about 1200 jobs last year and had some major developments it didn't go up that much.
Still hurts and not very happy. All options are on the table in our house.
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Old 03-06-2017, 06:19 PM
 
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Get ready for Westchester County-like property taxes... they are just around the corner!

Sad thing is... some people STILL can't admit Malloy is a screw up... (see West Hartford thread).
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Old 03-06-2017, 06:39 PM
 
Location: Northern Fairfield Co.
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It's truly a sad, sad state for my family at least . Believe it or not, we came up this way 25 years ago to escape this craziness.


Seems now though like it has rubbed off across state lines. I know Jay always says we "take longer" to come out of recession, but this sh-I-at is getting real stupid, and real old by now... Nine years and counting...
I don't believe him anymore. Just saying and just for the record.
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Old 03-06-2017, 06:56 PM
 
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They're going to build a bunch of high rise apartments in the barren industrial wasteland part of town to mitigate. Also, stamp and approve permits faster than ever for tear down and 4 story mcmansion rebuilds on .12 acre lots.
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Old 03-06-2017, 07:17 PM
 
Location: Northern Fairfield Co.
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Apparently you live in one our handful of small "cities" Raider. The one hundred and 62 rest of our state's towns are going to be hurting real bad, me thinks...
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Old 03-06-2017, 07:25 PM
 
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#notmygovernor
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Old 03-06-2017, 07:27 PM
 
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Apparently you live in one our handful of small "cities" Raider. The one hundred and 62 rest of our state's towns are going to be hurting real bad, me thinks...
I believe its the 10th largest or so, so 160
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Old 03-06-2017, 07:56 PM
 
Location: Ubique
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The bad part about this? Tax burden is actually going to get worse...
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Old 03-06-2017, 09:03 PM
 
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some of the smaller towns could really be decimated by this. Bethlehem for example stands to lose almost $1M on a <$4M budget.
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