Tiverton Town Council Budget and FTM Delay Discussion
Posted in FTM, Taxes, Tiverton, Town Council, Videos on Apr 2nd, 2010
So you can watch the drama for yourself:
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School Committee, March 23, 2010, Budget Discussion
Posted in FTM, School Committee, State Aid, Taxes, Videos on Mar 26th, 2010
Herewith video corresponding with my liveblog of Tuesday night’s School Committee meeting.
Town Council and the Cap, Again
Posted in FTM, Spending, Taxes, Tiverton, Town Council on Mar 22nd, 2010
I’ll be liveblogging from the Town Council meeting, tonight, once again, although once again, the topic in which I’m mainly interested has been slated for the end of the meeting. Hopefully, we won’t be listening to people asserting ambiguities that don’t exist for over an hour tonight.
7:20 p.m.
During discussion of community block grants, the [...]
Town Council, March 8, 2010: Exceeding the Tax Cap
Posted in FTM, Taxes, Tiverton, Town Council on Mar 15th, 2010
In case you missed it, here’s the extended conversation about municipal policy for exceeding the state-imposed tax cap from the March 8th meeting of the Town Council:
Some Thoughts on the Tax Cap Debate
Posted in FTM, Taxes, Tiverton, Town Council on Mar 11th, 2010
The long discussion of Town Solicitor Andy Teitz’s initial draft of a proposed policy for exceeding the state-imposed cap on towns’ tax rates (PDF) brought forth some, well, poorly considered statements from folks who give the impression that they want the law to be different (in order to make it easier to increase taxes).
By way [...]
If At First They Don’t Succeed (At Twisting the Law), They’ll Try, Try Again
Posted in Taxes, Town Council on Mar 8th, 2010
The January 25 meeting of the Town Council saw a bit of controversy over interpretation of the language in state law that places a cap on local property tax increases. As I explained beforehand, there were two interpretations on the table:
Bad (and spun): That regardless of what any other any other governing body [...]
**PRESS RELEASE** TOWN COUNCIL TO CONSIDER TAX CAP POLICY THIS COMING MONDAY
Posted in FTM, Press Releases, Taxes, Tiverton, Town Council on Mar 5th, 2010
Back in January, the Town Council agreed to adopt a policy clarifying its role as the governing body for purposes of supermajority protections against exceeding the property tax cap provided by state law. While the initial proposal was to change state law to remove this protection altogether, the Town Council ultimately settled upon a course [...]
Paying More for Garbage
Posted in Taxes, Tiverton, Town Council, Videos on Mar 2nd, 2010
Tiverton’s “pay as you throw” trash pickup program, whereby residents will pay the town for the bags that they use for garbage disposal, is not yet in effect, but in January, the Town Council voted to have the solicitor put together the necessary legal language. Here’s the video. (For video of an earlier [...]
Responding to Deb Pallash
Posted in Letters to the editor, Spending, Taxes, Tiverton, Unions on Feb 28th, 2010
I would like to respond to Deb Pallash’s Letter to the Editor to the Newport Daily News titled “Fight with unions cannot interfere with education” by thanking her for her efforts to help improve Tiverton’s schools. Of particular interest was Ms. Pallash’s statement “Long-term changes can never be achieved through force, bullying or disrespect″. We [...]
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