After reading a comment thread on the Valley Indy’s Facebook page under a post about Derby’s recently-adopted budget, tax board chairperson Judy Szewczyk emailed the document you see embedded below.
The $41 million budget raised taxes by 3.6 mills, or about $300 on the average residential tax bill.
Szewczyk’s document shows a spending increase of about $2 million from last year’s budget.
“I’m attaching some budget information in response to the Facebook request to show what are increases were,” Szewczyk wrote in an email. “This is how the increases and cuts fall into place for the evolution of the 2015/2016 to 2016/2017 budget.”
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Of the top six increases, which dominate the picture, two are one-time only increases, Szewczyk said.
“The parking management because this is the transition of the old Parking Authority to a department within the City Administration, and the city clerk’s new assistant,” she wrote.
“The others are the problem that we and other municipalities face every year. The contracts that contain guaranteed salary increases (teachers and police have the most employees and the larger salaries), medical insurance that rises and rises, and interest. We have a great rate for the latter, but it adds up.”
Note: The town clerk’s assistant position isn’t new to this budget. It was approved last year, but the dollar amount was kept in a special working balance until it was transferred to the town clerk’s budget when the person was hired.
