The first was to ask a local college to investigate and analyse, something along those lines, the costs and benefits of a single tax rate??
Her second, was to look into a four tiered tax rate:
- owner occupied residential
- non-owner occupied residential
- small commercial businesses
- large commercial businesses
Kind of confused by either of these requests? Then the City Council passed an order for the task force looking into this to look into a couple issues, which prompted Councilor Clancy and Rushton to ask the legality of the 2nd request and the status of the task force?
Got to tell you the whole thing was kind of confusing. In the end I still really could not tell you when the task force would be organized.
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these folks are not talking to each other.
CC Clancy is becoming a huge impediment to anything new being discussed in this city ex: 311 issue or revisiting issues that have been brought up in the past ex: property tax issue....I am tired of hearing from him about how long he has been on the council and what happened years ago..perhaps it is time he moved on into retirement so that this city can start entering a new era ...Q Village needs some new young blood directing it.
Kate did not look so Mayoresqe last night on the tube...she seemed ill prepared..and less than inspiring....I like her push for new inituatives (sp)...I just wish that one of these days one of our CC's would do more with their idea's than just throw out at Mick O'Brien to follow up on
what totally confused me was that this was that Kate Toomey pledges that she will stand for the lowest residential rate, which is her right, but then asks for reports??
Then ask the colleges to do it????
Then 4 tiered tax system??
The whole thing was strange but at least they discussed an issue that is near and dear to us all--the use of plastic bags in grocery stores.
I'm a brown papah guy.always have been
even tho the plastic bags do come in handy when I walk Buddy the Beagle and he shites:>)
this tax issue should be a City Council issue NOT one City Councilor....it all seems bumbly and reeks of politics NOT a well thought out issue and way of addressing the issue
Paulie:
This should be the one and only issue the Chamber of Commerce should be working on. I would even join the Chamber if they worked on it 52 weeks per year.
Bill
Paper vs plastic............christ almighty.........more GD drivel about totally insignificant, unimportant isssues...........like Vendor push carts & 2.5 " knives....and the T&G reports this paper vs plastic was initiated by Lukes........good god she's usually the only voice of sanity & reason down there.........meanwhile the city fiancailly implodes.......are our city leaders trying to move taxpayer attention away from the real issues that are bearing down on the city....
call me a sexist pig...but wimmen take these environmental issues way to far..............meanwhwile none of em can live in a house w/o the heat on 75 all winter or the AC on all summmaaahhh
Toomey is losing it and I am wondering if she's about to get smeared big time with this Irving St issue that has T&G bloggers all up in arms..........4 tax rates.....hey about 4 different hiring standards over on Irving St
1. who you know.
2. who u dont know
3. who u give caampaign donations to
4. what you dont know..........
what is the city doing turning in to ...... Nobama and/or the IRS??with this talk of 4 tax rates......
Paulie...Kate pushing for new initiatives......huh????........like maybe a privatized school custodail workforce that actually works 7.5 hrs a day............lol .......only when hell freeeezes over.....
Now MBTA wants to "curtail /reduce" train service to Worc............if thsi happens this ='s the Banal District & City Sq & Union station toasted.......IMO
Spring is imminent........Gimme some reason to be positiver about this city
Where's my WPD payroll gate update????.............council s/b all over thsi issue instead of bagging the taxpayers will plastic vs paper baloney........
"Paulie...Kate pushing for new initiatives......huh????........like maybe a privatized school custodail workforce that actually works 7.5 hrs a day............lol .......only when hell freeeezes over....."
>>I like the talk about bike paths in the city...Twitter even if this may not be the best mode...311 brought up by CC Rushton and successful in other communities
what I am not happy about is how they throw these ideas they hear are successful elsewhere at Mick O'Brien to look into instead of moving the issue forward on their own
Bikes paths you cant be serious........we got traffic bottled up everywhere going from west to east in this city and now someone wants to do bike paths.......i can just see it now ....... a couple of suburban yuppie bicyclists stopped at Main & Madison and being accosted by a "Will Work For a Drink" ....Sign holder..........as the Kirsch Liquor 40 oz'er crowd looks on in glee.
And where is UNUM.....hey folks does Berkley even have a contractor signed on yet to demo the parking garage and Mall....????.......and does Berkley still have the finacing availble to them that they had 6 or 12 months ago???....MMMMMMMMM.............i can see it now .......UNUM signs on and then Berkley aint got no financing?
Someone Please tell Park Young that this parking garage demo is getting old........no puns
Jahn,
It's Young Park.
And you really need to become more of a "glass half full kinda guy" like Dewey. It's good for your heart.
I'm serious Senor Jahn.....one of the best things that ever hit Somerville was the development of the bike path:>) and the bike lanes in Cambridge
After ole fart Clancy leaves..you are the next geriatric that we are putting on the bus:>)
I do not wish to spend my years on this planet just speaking about the ills of the World...getting something done positively and not just dumping the lovely Ms. Byrne is on my plate...
Time to start attracting more than just Sexy 8 recipients to the city:>) I dig bike paths and bike lanes:>)
David, good morning sir...!!!!
Sorry David, but they say I have no heart......what can i say....LOL....so becoming a glass 1/2 full kinda guy really makes no difference...unless of course it's perfectly poured 1/2 glass of Pualie's Guinness
In Worc it's what you don't have that gets you ahead..and I dont have a heart......I mean just look at school dept, Housing authority , and even CDC chieftains...... unqualified hacks abound..........
Guess I ma getting dyslexic here when I transpose Young Parks name. T.Y. for the correction.
Folks this city is going bankrupt......and it's the only hope to save us finacailly...... b/c it will result in voided labor contracts...the only answer is less expensive labor to save the city and likes of Toomey, Palmieri, Rushton, et al aint going to make that happen any time soon...... what happens a year from now when there is no more stimulus dinero coming from Nobama???
O'brien is forced to spend far too much time budgeting, when instead he could be using that time to move Worc forward. FWIW, I do generally like what I see coming from him.........
Paulie, i will have u know I am not a geritric...[g]...nor a member of the Geritol for lunch bunch.
I do agree time for Clancy to hit the proverbail bike path outta town. BTW there's a nice bike path out in Millbury at the new highway/146 sites. I Wonder if a certain school dept honcho rode that bike path outta town last and back to Providence.
If you dig bikes paths, I got a shovel ready for ya........and some stimulus money that pays a constr. laborer a prevailing wage of about $38 to 42$ per hour.
Sorry , but I avoid Cambridge....not my type of people........Harvard Sq is Ok tho for a visit and some grub. I Always liked that guy who has 15 million books all set up on the sidewalk for sale and his dog and he allegedly sleep there all night, too?
Carr calls it Slummer ville. Says he actaullly used to live there. Howie is the ba++s.
Jahn,
Cambridge/Harvard Square is so yesterday. Somerville is the ba++s now!
If Worcester emulated just half of what Somerville has we would be a winner!
If Worcester emulated just half of what Somerville has we would be a winner!
>>and we still have our fair share of housing for the needy:>)
I'm still waiting for Gabriel to release my two posts from two days hammering his opinion that Somerville today exists because of Boston solely....
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