An additional 1.8 percent may be added to that increase if the absentee ballot count brings a reprieve for the Phoenicia Library, whose request for more funding was narrowly turned down on Election Day.
“Our current zoning is as laid out in the ’60’s for cities of that era,” said Mayor Steve Noble. “That’s not the kind of nimble zoning we need today.”
“We all share the blame, living in our bubbles while we shun, demoralize and demonize those who disagree with us. We’ve been viewing distorted versions of each other through computer screens while we calcify our own sense of self-righteousness. Half the country is not all racist neo-Nazi buffoons just as the other half is not all liberal elitist Christmas-haters. We have to find a way back to recognizing common humanity in those who disagree with us, and find a way for them to recognize ours.”
Mayor Steve Noble plans to meet with members of the Common Council next week to propose a new parking scheme that would double the cost of metered on-street spots and install payment kiosks in municipal lots that currently offer free parking.
Total appropriations for next year are set at $4.58 million, $2.85 million of which will be raised through local taxes.
The $11.26 million spending plan that would increase spending by 0.57 percent over the current budget and would increase residential property taxes by 0.93 percent.
This year’s tax cap is less than 1 percent, so many towns, facing mandated personnel increases, are overriding it.
Concerns continue to mount regarding the four-story mixed use building at the corner of Mulberry and Rt. 32N.
The suits states that Trump’s “words and actions have proven him wholly untruthful and therefore unqualified and incapable of taking an oath of office or honoring an international treaty as President of the United States” and that he does not have “the temperament, knowledge, or political belief to adhere to the principles of the U.S. Constitution.”
“Amongst this board there is great consensus that this is an issue between neighbors, and it should be addressed between neighbors.”