It’s budget-creating season at Hartford town hall! Budgets that department heads submitted to the town manager, who altered slightly and submitted to us on the selectboard, were ideal budgets that would have resulted in an 11% overall budget increase. We couldn’t have that, so we asked the department heads to make cuts. The cuts that … Continue reading What town depts will cut back (and by how much)?
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Inflation and town taxes
I've been seeing some healthy discussion about town taxes on the listserv. So I'm sharing a few thoughts of my own. This is the whole post, without the daily-repeated disclaimers: "I’m a town board member, but cannot (& don’t here) claim to speak for Town Hall." I very much appreciate hearing your perspectives on it, … Continue reading Inflation and town taxes