Saturday, March 31, 2012

Dear Hartford Council Members, I've scratched the worst idea from your list


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.
 What are the other 6?
 

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