2010 Town Budget Information
Current Mill rate for West Hartford is 38.38
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The Towns website has budget documents posted
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In the past 10 years, the BOE budget has risen 61%
(this year 4.3%)*
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In the past 10 years, Education Salaries have risen
35% and Benefits by 179%!!*
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In the last 4 years the BOE has only cut 6.3 certified
staff positions out of 820!*
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Recent “Cuts” were made to unfilled positions – yes –
that means vacant positions were cut. **
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The BOE budget includes Staff classified as Teachers
who do not Teach classes**
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Roughly 100 classes have under 16 students**
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Each school has about $80,000 of discretionary
spending with no traceable budget.
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West Hartford is using more one time revenues for FY 2010-11 than other towns allowing it to propose a higher
spending increase but lower tax rate increase than the typical CT town.
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The median spending increase for the 153 CT towns that
have adopted budgets to date is 1.41%
The Board of Education median spending
increase is 1.58% for those towns. West Hartford's Board of Education spending
increase is a little short of three times as much as the median
education spending increase of adopted budgets through 6/11/2010.
*BOE Budget meeting with WHTA 03/15/10
**2010-2011 BOE Budget and Budget Supplement
We will be facing Enormous Budget deficits in
2010/2011!
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5 Year Projection of Revenues,
Expenditures and Financial Imbalance for West Hartford – Budget shortfall for 2010/11 is already
$12.5 million!
We have looming deficits, 7.3% unemployment in town,
record foreclosures and a generally poor domestic economy.
This is NOT the time to raise taxes! This is the time
to prepare for next year’s huge budget deficits.
We will be facing another property revaluation as
well.
XCEL Worksheet to
calculate your taxes with the adopted cessation of phase-in and the 38.38 Mill Rate This spreadsheet will give you
the taxes you would have paid with the phase-in as well as the currently
adopted no phase-in amount (You need to know your assessment prior to the 2006
revaluation as well as the assessment after revaluation – This can be obtained
from the Town’s
online property records system Just plug the values into the yellow
highlighted fields in the spreadsheet which are currently filled with sample
numbers – The rest will be automatically calculated for you) If you cannot find your assessment
information from the online property Records system please contact the Town Assessor’s office.
Basically, to calculate your tax bill you take the assessment amount
(which is normally 70% of the market value of your home/property that is
recorded by the Assessment office, but will for 2009 be the assessment used
last year) and divide that amount by 1000 and multiply it by the Mill rate.
2009 Town Budget Information
Current Mill rate for
West Hartford is 37.54.
A list of Town’s Mill
rates is available at the State of CT website
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XCEL
Worksheet to calculate your taxes with the newly adopted cessation of phase-in
and the 37.54 Mill Rate This spreadsheet
will give you the taxes you would have paid with the phase-in as well as the
currently adopted no phase-in amount (You need to know your assessment prior to
the 2006 revaluation as well as the assessment after revaluation – This can be
obtained from the Town’s
online property records system Just plug the values into the yellow
highlighted fields in the spreadsheet which are currently filled with sample numbers
– The rest will be automatically calculated for you) If you cannot find your assessment
information from the online property Records system please contact the Town Assessor’s office.
Basically, to calculate your tax bill you take the assessment amount
(which is normally 70% of the market value of your home/property that is
recorded by the Assessment office, but will for 2009 be the assessment used
last year) and divide that amount by 1000 and multiply it by the Mill rate.
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Memo
From Chip Ward – Where the $1.3 million BOE surplus came from
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Memo
from the Town Manager about the budget and reductions.
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Robert
Sisk Report on Benefits and the Budget – 04/02/09
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Dues Paid
By Unions in West Hartford
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West Hartford School Information
1. Class Sizes
3. Comparitive School
Rankings (West Hartford and Neighboring Schools)
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2009
Tax Estimator – from the Town website
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2009-2010
Proposed Budget and Capital Improvement Proposals here. Budget
document is very large if you are planning to download it. Town Budget Information from the Town Website
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Town Manager presentation
2009-2010 Budget (PDF) 03/10/09
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West Hartford Budget Analysis
for 2009-2010 budget – by Robert Sisk 02/04/09
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Streaming video of February Budget Forum 02/04/09
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West Hartford Budget
Projections - $380,672 budget deficit
already projected for June 2009!
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Some Thoughts on the Impact
of The Interim Town Manager’s new salary.
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Budget Analysis of CT Towns – by
Bill Generous
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Some Budget Facts vs. “what is
being said”
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Education Cost Sharing (ECS) shortfall memo –
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Interesting
comments on director’s salaries and benefits which were posted by someone commenting on a Hartford
Courant article on May 6 (see article below).
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West Hartford Year End Metric
from the Department of Employee Services
08/12/08
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West Hartford School rankings
based on schooldigger.com and test scores.
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Town
Budget information archives from 2008