Friday, April 10, 2009

NO TAX HIKE - The New Britain Herald (newbritainherald.com)


NO TAX HIKE - The New Britain Herald (newbritainherald.com)
Posted by Frank Smith at 10.4.09

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

At a time when the City needs real debate The Majority Leader is instead doing his patented act of grandstanding and feigning disbelief.

The city charter clearly leaves room for the Council to amend the proposed budget. In fact the framers of the city charter make the councils role clear.
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(d) Publication of Mayor’s Proposed Budget. The Mayor’s Proposed
Budget shall be filed with the City Clerk concurrently with its submission to the
Common Council and within four business days after its filing the Clerk shall
publish the Mayor’s Proposed Budget in a daily newspaper circulated or published
in said City119 and include in the notice that it is available for public inspection at
the Clerk’s office.
(e) Deliberations of the Common Council. The Common Council shall
consider and Act upon the Mayor’s Proposed Budget until it shall take a final
action thereon, which shall not be later than sixty (60) days following the date the
Mayor’s Proposed Budget Ordinance was submitted to the Common Council. The
Common Council shall hold at least one public hearing on the Mayor’s Proposed
Budget. The Common Council shall have the power by a majority vote of the
entire Common Council to increase, decrease or create individual lines of
appropriations; to decrease the total appropriation, rate of taxation and estimated
revenues; or to increase the total appropriation, rate of taxation or estimated
revenues, as recommended by the Mayor; however, final adoption of the Mayor’s
Proposed Budget shall be governed by the provisions of §10-3(e)(1) of this
Charter. The total amount of the annual appropriations for any fiscal year shall
not exceed the estimated income for that fiscal year. In the event said Council
fails to consider and vote on the budget recommended by the Mayor upon the
expiration of the above-referred sixty-day period, then the budget recommended
by the Mayor shall be final and the appropriations, revenues and the rate of
taxation contained therein shall be the legal appropriations and the legal rate of
taxation for the City for the ensuing year.
(1) Final Vote of the Common Council. The
final vote of the Common Council to approve the Mayor’s Proposed Budget
for the ensuing fiscal year shall be by majority vote.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mr. Trueworthy, Mr. Sherwood, Mr. Gerrantano let me point out a very important section of the charter


The Common Council shall have the power by a majority vote of the
entire Common Council to increase, decrease or create individual lines of
appropriations


Stop with the games, do the “ETHICAL” thing! Get to work and finalize a budget so that we citizens can know what to expect for the coming year. After all the charter clearly outlines your duties as members of the council.

April 10, 2009 at 8:59 AM
NB Taxpayer said...

Trueworthy and company: Instead of bellyaching and complaining about the Mayor's budget report, come up with your own proposal's...that's part of your job! You have as much responsibility towards the residents of New Britain as the Mayor does...that's why people voted for you.

April 10, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Anonymous said...

Sherwood and Trueworthy call the Mayor's budget a farce not a real
document. Where do they come off
making these statements and what
if any measures are they producing
to protect the taxpayers from an
increase?

Let's hear it? Oh, wait I know you
are waiting for Mr. O'Brien to pipe in with his two cents and that's right let's cry to the senior citizens that the mayor is aiming to hurt them in an election
year. Dirty politics from a bunch of worthless council members.
How many were absent yesterday when
the mayor made his address?

April 10, 2009 at 12:08 PM
Anonymous said...

The reason they don't want to deal with the budget is that the mayor did such a great job planning for the city, they don't want to have to publicly admit that there is no room for improvement on the mayor's already perfect budget.

April 10, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Anonymous said...

Stop with the games, do the “ETHICAL” thing! Get to work and finalize a budget so that we citizens can know what to expect for the coming year. After all the charter clearly outlines your duties as members of the council.

Aren't you asking a lot for the self proclaimed czar of ethics to act ethically? After all, he is a Democrat.

April 10, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Anonymous said...

The democrats have been awol since Stewart became Mayor. They purged their ranks of the people that developed and proposed changes to the city budget. They now have whiners.

Don't look to them to make any meaningful PRO TAXPAYER adjustments. Stewart, Salvio, and Bernacki will do their jobs for them.

Mayor Stewart proposes a 100+ page budget and IMMEDIATELY the democrats decry his proposal WITHOUT reading the document. If we in New Britain want drama we can watch Jerry Springer.

April 10, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Anonymous said...

Mayor Stewart proposes a 100+ page budget and IMMEDIATELY the democrats decry his proposal WITHOUT reading the document.

IS THIS REALLY MUCH DIFFERENT FROM DEMOCRATS PASSING AN 1,100 PAGE SO-CALLED STIMULUS BILL THAT STIMULATES NOTHING BUT GOVERNMENT EXPANSION, AND DOING SO WITHOUT READING IT?

Why else do we call them DUMBOCRATS?

April 10, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Anonymous said...

These mush brains on the council are just upset because the budget doesn't include massive tax increases so that the council can give more of your hard earned money to people they believe deserve it more than you do.

Stop bellyaching and act responsibly for once in your lives, you mush brain Democrats!!!!!

April 10, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Anonymous said...

Anonymous says... If anyone is wondering how Gerratona, Sherwood, Trueworthy, etc., can make their comments without ever having read the document, guess what? Who would have told them which part of the Mayor's budget to complain about and lie about without having read the document? Could it be someone who has formed an exploratory committee to see if he should run for Mayor and who is already collecting money for same?

By the way, which of the early complainers pays any kind of taxes to the City?

This will be Stewart's 6th. budget - considering that New Britain is poor financially, are taxpayers dissatisfied with what the Mayor has done with our mill rate? The city's bond rating? The new real estate development and redevelopment, etc? Council Democrats, stop your negativity and grandstanding, do something positive for once in your life, i.e., cooperate!

April 10, 2009 at 1:45 PM
The Thorn said...

This is what Mayor Stewart has been protecting the people of New Britain from. He is working against all odds, but if the lunatic Democrats on the council get their way over the budget, with the massive tax increases they would pass onto all of us, so that they can redistribute your hard earned money to people they believe deserve your money more than you do, this is what the future of New Britain may look like:

NYC April 7, 2009:
Mayor Bloomberg is threatening to lay off up to 7,000 city workers, saying municipal unions and state officials haven't done enough to help New York balance its budget.

April 10, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Anonymous said...

Maybe it is time for our own tea party in New Britain. It is time to tell those commies on the council we have had enough of their repressive taxation.

April 11, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Anonymous said...

Anonymous says...

Message to Gerratona to "know it al", Gerratuna: Hello! Just wanted you to know that there is no Senior Citizen Tax Exemption Program. Mayor Stewart formed a special committee to investigate same - committee composed almost entirely of Democrats and one which was chaired by former Mayor, Stanley Pac. The unanimous vote, unanimously Against!!!!!!! Are you just creating lies to stir up a vulnerable population just so Tim O,Brien can jump in and pretend to save the day? Greg, - understand that you don't pay any real estate or personal property taxes. How did you get your 100% taxes exemption?

April 11, 2009 at 1:46 PM
NB Taxpayer said...

If Trueworthy and ;his gang can come up with a better budget, than they should do so, and submit it to the public..

April 11, 2009 at 1:56 PM
Betty Boop said...

Which of the current members of the Common Council proposed a property tax freeze for Senior Citizens? If such a proposal were made, where would the difference be made up? By increasing the property taxes of the rest of the property owners? Or, perhaps the Council Members would donate their stipend for serving on the council?

April 11, 2009 at 8:34 PM
NB Taxpayer said...

I wonder what Ann Mikulak of the CPOA feels about the attitude of the Common Council towards the Mayor's proposed budget? It isn't like her to remain silent on this subject.

April 11, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Anonymous said...

NO CT TAX HIKE? You must be a CT State Politican that posted this headline? Among the CT new items to be taxed are:

*College Textbooks
*Diapers
*Bike Helmets
*Stop smoking products
*Massages
*Mobile Homes
*Solar Heating Panels
*Tax, Tax Preparation
*Baby car seats
*Commercial Fishing Boats
*Car Washes
*Work Clothes

This is only a partial list.Taxing folks that barely make a living as commercial fishermen; mobile home sales and of course, text books.

Instead of making cuts, the CT State pols cynically just tax us even more so that we are forced to make cuts at our family level to cover their pathetic excuse at "leadership" here in the taxing State of Connecticut?

April 13, 2009 at 2:18 AM
Anonymous said...

NB Taxpayer said...
I wonder what Ann Mikulak of the CPOA feels about the attitude of the Common Council towards the Mayor's proposed budget? It isn't like her to remain silent on this subject...

NOTE: CPOA President Ann Mikulak will post her reply on the Mayor's Proposed Budget when the NB Common Council amend the Mayor's Proposed Budget per the City Charter...

...In fact the framers of the City Charter make the Councils role clear.

April 13, 2009 at 2:33 AM

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