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Get the latest on what matters to property owners in New Britain. Brought to you by the longest standing taxpayer advocates in the State of Connecticut. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. CPOA Headlines Contents: HRA Taxes Forgiven Surplus Masks Failed Revenues If you like our emails please consider forwarding it to your friends or sharing us on FaceBook. Help us grow our audience! HRA Taxes Forgiven Apr 30, 2013 07:28 am | Nicholas Mercier In a troubling move the Common Council has authorized the Mayor of New Britain to enter into a “tax liabilities agreement” with the New Britain HRA. You can read a bit more about this here. Essentially the Mayor has been authorized to not only forgive more that $223,000 in back taxes, but he has also been given permission to make them exempt from any future taxes. (more…) Read More Surplus Masks Failed Revenues Apr 30, 2013 01:24 am | Nicholas Mercier Recently the New Britain Common Council transferred over $6 million from the city’s self insurance fund to cover a litany of differing expenses. The resolution is interesting for a number of reasons. It not only reveals some financial mismanagement of the city, but it also is steeped in a political agenda as much of the money goes to pay off failed revenue sources in the Mayor’s last budget. You can download a copy of the budget transfer resolution here if you’d like to follow along at home. (more…) Read More Recent Posts O’Brien’s Budget Ignores Malloy’s Proposal Fictional Revenues Agenda for the Annual Meeting Superintendent to Speak at Annual Meeting The Mayor’s Budget Revealed! Find us on Facebook for requent updates Join in the discussion and get the latest updates as well as share our articles and updates with your friends. Join us on Twitter Help us spread the word, ask us questions, share your thoughts. Not a member? Download and fill out our application today. Membership is only $10 per year. Already a member? Forward this to a friend and help our organization grow.

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Are you sick of having your tax money paid to cronies of Mayor O’Brien? Are you sick of having the City bilked of $ hundreds of thousands of tax dollars by political operatives? Are you sick of seeing campaign contributions in the tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions going to O’Brien from well known political contributors. Then, you must be sick of the O’Brien administration. Read the list of contributors in the Herald from O’Brien’s recent campaign report then, read the following letter. All you had to do was watch the first few minutes of Wednesday’s Council meeting to understand.

During public participation, citizen, Alton Brooks spoke in favor of giving the HRA of NB (former Benjamin Franklin Elem. School) an exemption to paying property taxes. How could he know to speak on the issue since it would not be put on the agenda until later in the meeting? HRA owes the City of $220,707.98 as of 4/11/13. His reasoning was that it is a school. Really? Is it a NB School? NO! Is it a Charter School? NO! Is it State Magnet School? NO!

When the City sold the former Benjamin Franklin School to HRA the deed reported that the property would be exempt from property taxes. JUST THAT BUILDING! HRA built a huge addition to the property; this addition was not exempt and was agreed to by the principals!

Now, HRA cries foul and hires private Attorney, Michael Carrier to mediate the issue, COMPLETELY BYPASSING ALL CITY ATTORNEYS IN THE CORPORATION COUNSEL’S OFFICE, A CITY OFFICE THAT IS COSTING TAXPAYERS WELL OVER $ HALF A MILLION TO MAINTAIN. Again, check the contributions list. See who contributed how much !

In addition, at the most recent Council meeting, the Council agreed to extend the contract of David Pudlin (so far paid over $30 thousand) for another year for what? As of this date, Pudlin has produced nothing to show for his "work." And all the sheep voted for it, in particular, Alderwoman Bielinski and Alderman Trueworthy.

And how about O’Brien having an Executive Aide, Michael Baczewski (out of towner),page 6, Herald, 4/25/13 being paid by taxpayers to do what, change O’Brien’s diapers? How much help does O’Brien need?

Lou Salvio
     

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