by | May 17, 2010 10:13 pm | Comments (0)
The Board of Apportionment and Taxation approved a $57.63 million budget Monday that will increase the tax rate by half a mill, or about 1.9 percent.
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by | May 12, 2010 6:48 pm | Comments (0)
The Board of Apportionment and Taxation struggled for more than two hours Wednesday night with the question of what to do with the city’s proposed $57.07 million budget.
No vote was taken Wednesday, but several hypothetical situations were floated.
by | May 10, 2010 11:37 pm | Comments (0)
The tax board received pressure from both sides Monday as residents weighed in on the proposed $57.07 million budget at a public hearing.
by | May 10, 2010 3:30 pm | Comments (0)
The Ansonia Board of Apportionment and Taxation will host a public hearing at 7 tonight on the city’s proposed $57.07 million budget for 2010-11.
The public hearing has been relocated to Ansonia High School.
by | May 5, 2010 7:15 am | Comments (0)
Though the Board of Apportionment and Taxation has whittled the city budget proposal down to a zero percent increase, the citizen group that formed to oppose an earlier budget proposal still plans to pack the budget public hearing Monday night.
“Now that departments are looking at less funding than expected, we assume additional pressure may be put on BOAT members to restore funding,” the group, Axe the Tax, wrote in a press release Tuesday.
by | Apr 28, 2010 4:29 pm | Comments (0)
The city’s Board of Apportionment and Taxation started to seriously consider trimming the 2010 – 2011 budget during a three-hour plus meeting at City Hall Wednesday night.
The meeting, the second this week, started out with a new proposed mill rate — 26.52.
That number is less than the 27.36 mill rate the tax board was staring at its previous budget meeting on Monday.
And the mill rate shrank as the meeting went on.
What changed?
Continue reading ‘RECAP: Ansonia Budget Workshop, Part Deux’
by | Apr 26, 2010 1:59 pm | Comments (0)
The Board of Apportionment and Taxation started discussing the proposed $58.6 million budget Monday night.
The tax board didn’t make any changes to the budget — yet.
But members did talk a lot about how much money to give the Board of Education.
by | Apr 19, 2010 7:58 pm | Comments (0)
Charlie Stowe is not usually the type to get involved in city government.
“I like to be in my house minding my own business, not causing any trouble,” Stowe said Monday afternoon.
But a proposed 8.4 percent tax increase has spurred Stowe and a handful of other Ansonia residents to start a public campaign against the proposed tax hike.
by | Feb 9, 2010 11:39 pm | Comments (0)
A handful of residents and one city alderman Tuesday called for a tougher look at the proposed $58.6 million budget proposal for 2010 – 2011, saying that the proposed tax increase would be too difficult in this economy.
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by | Feb 4, 2010 5:24 pm | Comments (0)
Tax bills will increase about 8.4 percent next year, under a city budget proposal the Board of Aldermen will consider Tuesday.
The budget proposal calls for about $58.64 million in spending — which is a $3.68 million, or 6.7 percent, increase over current spending.
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