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H'fields cuts would save about a dollar a day
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March 19, 2009 | 09:16 AM
The Harborfields community showed up in full force at last night's community budget forum. Many parents and students voiced their concerns over the proposed cuts to the gifted and talented, music and arts and sports programs.
Yet when asked which budget scenario the community would likely vote for, residents admitted, through a show of hands, that a 4.37 percent tax rate hike and not 6 or 8 percent tax rate raises would more likely pass. And, the 4.37 percent tax rate hike would be achieved only through cuts to the budget.
Several people said the get-out-the-vote effort should be stepped up before the May 19 budget vote, and wanted residents to be made aware that increasing the tax rate by a couple percentage points would cost about a dollar a day in taxes for the average household.
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