Newton Mayor Proposes $11.4M Tax Override Package
The mayor is seeking three separate ballot questions for a March 2013 special election.
Facing a long list of infrastructure needs and a rapidly-growing student population, Newton Mayor Setti Warren proposed an $11.4 million override package tonight that would increase residents' property taxes to help pay for aging buildings, roads and public safety. During his annual Capital Improvement Plan presentation tonight at City Hall, Warren announced a request for the Board of Aldermen to set a special election for March 12, 2013 for residents to consider three separate tax overrides for various projects around the city. "This is what we believe is the right path forward," Warren said in a meeting earlier today with Newton Patch. The first question asks for an $8.4 million operational override that would cover a number of …
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Adam Maleson
1:29 am on Sunday, January 27, 2013
Proposition 2 1/2 exists for a reason: Financial Accountability. That is a reason Newton's irresponsible, wasteful, greedy politicians do not wish to acknowledge and are probably incapable of even comprehending. The reason we need these long overdue repairs to the elementary schools is entirely the result of the perennial shortsightedness of Newton's political syndicate. We do not need an … more ›