Posted by: jimfior02 on: February 14, 2008
I watched the city council meeting and heard a good deal about the roof at the Tilton School.
I wanted to see for myself, so I spent a good deal of the day at the Tilton School inspecting the roof. I went with our maintenance people, climbed up on the flat roof that appears to be [...]
Posted by: jimfior02 on: February 10, 2008
Together with the other regional Mayors, I went to the Eagle Tribune editorial office recently to plead the case for cities.
We have been meeting on a regular basis to formulate plans to deal with what we all see as a long term, sustained budget crisis for cities. We have introduced regional purchasing in an effort [...]
Posted by: jimfior02 on: February 7, 2008
Monday night, I’ll be meeting with councilors to outline our budget problems, and to give some possible solutions.
I’ll first outline how this is a State wide problem, not a city one.
We are fortunate, in a way, that the steps we took earlier to reform health care (saving $1.5 million a year) and improve our tax [...]
Posted by: jimfior02 on: February 7, 2008
Yesterday, most of the Mayors throughout the State met with the Lt. Governor and several State finance officials concerning the Governor’s casino gambling proposal.
The numbers the Governor outlined to us were compelling: without licensing fees from casinos, State aid to cities and towns will tumble, with licensing fees, State aid will remain level funded, and [...]
