Updates from Letty – April 28, 2017 – final budget edition

And with that, we wrapped up the FY18 budget this week. The quick headline is that by a 4-3 vote, we raised the real estate tax rate by 1.5 cents which will generate $600K towards the capital reserve, important for the GMHS project. For the average homeowner (average home value […]

Updates from Letty – April 20, 2017 – Budget Edition #4

Updates are a day early this week – mainly as a quick reminder that I’m holding my final office hours this morning from 830 – 930 am at Rare Bird Coffee (corner of Broad and Maple). Before you head to work – if you have input on the budget prior to […]

Updates from Letty – April 7, 2017 – Budget Edition #3

We are two weeks out from the final FY18 budget adoption on April 24th – the headline being the proposed 4 cents real estate tax rate increase (1 cent to fund the requested school budget, 3 cents for capital reserves). Thank you to those who have already written to us […]