Hartford Council Considers Ways To Close $56M Projected Deficit, (Hartford Courant, 3/28/2012)
Excerpt: Council members considered 15 ideas — which stemmed from discussions at previous budget workshops — for saving money or generating new revenue. Among them were
- raising the mill rate,
- reducing employee pension contributions,
- drawing from the city’s emergency, or “rainy day,” fund,
- layoffs, furloughs, wage cuts for city employees,
- selling more advertising through billboards and bus shelters,
- consolidating city departments or city and school operations,
- selling off city assets, such as a parcel of land adjacent to Batterson Park in Farmington,
cutting contributions to the public library[bad idea] and- implementing a voluntary payment in lieu of taxes program.
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