Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The Committee on Appropriations will present tonight at the annual budget hearing a proposed fiscal year 2014 spending plan for Barrington that will cost the owner of a $340,000 home about $68 more in taxes next year.
Expect an approximate 1.1 percent tax hike in Barrington this year. It could have been higher without a larger than expected increase in state school aid. The Committee on Appropriations (COA) will present its annual budget proposal tonight at the hearing on Barrington’s spending for schools, municipal services and capital expenses in fiscal year 2014. It will show the 1.1 percent boost. The hearing starts at 7 pm in the Barrington Middle School auditorium. The overall proposed budget is approximately $62.5 million. Most of the spending pays for school expenses: approximately $45.5 million or $900,000 higher than this year, including the cost of a new teachers’ contract, which makes up most of the school budget. But the school budget also…
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Town Manager Peter DeAngelis Jr. releases the proposed 2013-14 budget for Barrington; it goes now to the appropriations committee.
A proposed Barrington budget for the next fiscal year shows a 2 percent tax hike. Town Manager Peter DeAngelis Jr. released the proposed 2013-14 spending plan on Monday to the Town Council and the Committee on Appropriations. It totals $59.83 million or a 1.68 percent boost in spending over this year. The spending plan shows a $16.7 million municipal operating budget – or .59 percent higher than this year. “Continuing the strong cost-effective delivery of municipal services is a credit to strong leadership and quality employess,” said the town manager. The plan shows a local share for school spending of $42.2 million – or 2.57 percent higher than this year. “School expenditures are not subject to the manager’s review,” DeAngelis said. “…
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Committee on Appropriations presents a $61.9 million spending plan for Barrington schools, municipal services and capital projects that calls for no increase in the tax rate.
Expect no tax hike in Barrington this year -- maybe. The Committee on Appropriations presented a no-tax-hike budget proposal Wednesday evening at the annual hearing on Barrington’s spending for schools, municipal services and capital expenses in fiscal year 2013. That $61.9 million proposed budget could change a bit – and create a small tax hike -- at the annual Financial Town Meeting on May 23 if supporters of keeping a wood shop teacher present an amendment to change the spending plan. Eliminating the industrial arts teacher, a decision made by the School Committee and administration to help trim the school budget, was a main point of contention at the hearing after Kathy Cadigan, chair of the COA, delightfully introduced the proposed …
Gary Morse
9:49 am on Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Barrington remains the highest taxed municipality in the state when measured on a per capita basis even before the 1.1% increase (I leave out the summer colonies of Jamestown and Block Island). We also have the pension lawsuit to pay up if it is resolved in favor of the teachers. The lawsuit has not been going well for the state. Then there is the matter of property tax abatement's for affordable… more ›