Well, today’s breaking news is that Town Administrator Jim Goncalo has received word that the state Division of Municipal Finance has approved Tiverton’s waiver of the tax cap, which should have held our tax increase at 4.5%.
I suppose we shouldn’t be too surprised, though. Rhode Island is a state in which the governor and General Assembly finally manage to work together only when they’re trying to subvert a decision by a regulatory body tasked with defending electricity consumers by passing a law that forces regulators to reconsider a specific (extremely expensive) project allocated to a preferred corporate entity. In that environment, why would a division of a department of a bureaucracy follow its own guidelines?
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