VIDEO: Seymour Budget Hearing

Seymour’s annual budget hearing was Wednesday night, where residents weighed in on the town’s proposed $53.8 million budget for 2013 – 2014. 

Frank Loda, a private citizen, recorded the hearing and uploaded it to YouTube. Click the play button on the video to watch.

The meeting began with Board of Education Chairman Yashu Putorti telling town officials that the school board doesn’t want the town to spend $377,000 on new school resource officers. 

The total budget proposal for town and schools is $53,803,630. If that figure was approved at referendum, the town’s tax rate would go from 32.83 mills to 33.91 mills — a 3.3 percent increase.

That means a person who owns a house assessed at $230,000 would see their property taxes go from $7,550.90 to $7,799.30.

But if the finance board does take the $377,000 for the school resource officers out of the budget, the mill rate would be 33.59 — meaning taxes on the same house would be $7,725.70.

Click here for a full recap of the meeting.

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