| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 1 | pierre strauch | |
| 2 | Mary Litch | |
| 3 | Anonymous | |
| 4 | Jorge Ortega | |
| 5 | Richard Lee | 70 Lyon St |
| 6 | Jaipal Singh Chauhan | |
| 7 | Jane Lederer | Middle class and working class families are going to
be forced out of the city if property taxes go up as
threatened. |
| 8 | Anonymous | 196 West Rock Avenue |
| 9 | Mary and Lee Faulkner | |
| 10 | Bonnie Rosenberg | We may have to abandon our city home and flee back to the more affordable suburbs... |
| 11 | Anonymous | If the mill-rate is not changed after the 200% increase assessment of my house, I simply will have to sell the place and go back to renting, that is if landlords do not simply increase rent by 200% overnight. |
| 12 | William Taylor | |
| 13 | Marisa Kalt | |
| 14 | Aimlee D. Laderman | The real estate market continues to drop. The re-evaluations were made at the top of the market. It is wiser to encourage homeowners to spend money and effort to maintain the quality of our housing stock than to raise taxes to confiscatory levels. A policy of high real estate taxes chases owners out of New Haven. This leaves empty buldings and causes a downward spiral in New Haven quality of life. Use the mill rate to encourage people to buy and stay in our city! |
| 15 | Leslie Arthur | 127 West Rock Avenue |
| 16 | Jennifer Simpson | We own a mulit family home on West Rock Avenue. WIth the increase in the property values, we may be forced to sell the home as it will become prohibitively expensive for us to maintain. We love our community and want to continue to be a part of it, however have grave concerns about our ability to do with the new assessments. |
| 17 | Sherin Stahl | |
| 18 | Mona Berman | 78 Lyon Street |
| 19 | Anonymous | 8 Hughes Place, 3E
New Haven, CT 06511 |
| 20 | Joseph LaPalombara | Everyone in the city's administrtive organization must surely know that is obvious to all home owners, namely, that, as matter have turned out, the new evaluations were executed at a moment when the housing market in New Haven had peaked. Since that time, the market has deflated at least 10 per cent, and much more in some neighborhoods.
This factor along would argue that the present mil rate should be reduced, as a means of doing more equity to the citizenry.
In addition, as we have calculated the increase we would have to pay under the new assessment, it means that, as a family living on fixed income, we are going to have to consider moving out of the city.
Finally, it appears to us obvious that the city does not really require the level of addtional income that the new tax rates will produce.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Constance and Joseph LaPalombara
50 Huntington Street
New Haven 06511-1333 |
| 21 | Matthew Stannard | I currently rent a home in New Haven but I am looking to purchase my own place soon. Given the outrageous property taxes incurred on my vehicles and the disproportionate property tax rate when compared to surrounding towns I will probably not purchase my home in New Haven. |
| 22 | Aimlee D. Laderman | |
| 23 | Anne Dunlop | |
| 24 | Katherine Buick | |
| 25 | Michael Davies | address: 258 Alden Ave
New Haven, CT
06515 |
| 26 | Michael Davies | address: 258 Alden Ave
New Haven, CT
06515 |
| 27 | Carolyn Kovel | |
| 28 | Linda Reeder | Address: 96 Lyon St. 06511 |
| 29 | annie a. joseph | |
| 30 | Jill Cutler | My address is 84 Lyon St. My house has been reassessed for over twice its previous value. If the mil rate is not reduced it will be financially unviable for me to continue living in New Haven. Is this what the city wants? |
| 31 | Martin Bresnick | We will need relief from an assesment that tripled for us. All New Haven families will be hurt unless the mill rate is lowered! |
| 32 | Martin Bresnick | We will need relief from an assesment that tripled for us. All New Haven families will be hurt unless the mill rate is lowered! |
| 33 | Beverly Lett | 7 Wooster Place |
| 34 | Anonymous | |
| 35 | Billie Anne Berman | 12 Academy Street Unit 4C
Living in New Haven, with rising costs on every level, is a tremendous burden. |
| 36 | Lisa Moore | |
| 37 | ROBYN A. HAYES | 21 LYON STREET
2ND FLOOR
NEW HAVEN, CT
06511-4925 |
| 38 | David Hicks | The real estate bubble that New Haven property reassessment was based on is imploding. The values assessed are imaginary, "funny money." Using these assessments to determine tax rates, without a significant decrease in the mil rate as conterbalance, would be a punitive action against homeowners. |
| 39 | Edward & Paula Funaro | As a New Haven Resident all my life and a homeowner for over 35 years - I am so disgrunted as to the handling of property taxes. You keep them steady for years - but what good is that if you want to up them such large amounts all at one time. Many homeowners, especially the young and old will have such a hardship with these large, large assessments, please lower the mill rate to a reasonable number. We know we have to pay taxes and INCREASES - but our jobs don't give us increases this large - how would you expect middle class people to AFFORD TO STAY IN NEW HAVEN! |
| 40 | William P. Buicik | |
| 41 | Marc Funaro | I have lived all my life in New Haven on Douglass Avenue and 7 years ago I bought a house on 150 Stuyvesant Avenue in Morris Cove area of New Haven. I love being in the neighborhood I grew up in - so that my son can enjoy it as well - but a small mill rate decrease may force me to put a sign in front of my home. Please think of the young and old alike who can not even afford what they are paying now - let alone a huge tax hike!!!! Please think of everyone when deciding this new mill rate! |
| 42 | Anonymous | I moved to New Haven 5 years ago and found it to be an affordableplace to live. Significant increases in taxes and utilities would lead me to look for an alternative town to live in. |
| 43 | mary jean gagliardi | |
| 44 | Donna Anstey | |
| 45 | Jeanine and Richard Satnick | we are first time home buyers an decided on the westville area of setting up our new family but with proposed increases and the recent crime in our area we may be foced to leave and sell with a loss. The real estate market is in a tumble and with high tax's why would someone want to live in New Haven anymore?????? |
| 46 | JoAnne Wilcox | I believe that you are responsible for keeping the quality of life in New Haven high, for all people. I am a mom who stays home with her children and wants to continue doing so. I want my community to be one that supports that. I want my community to work hard to make this a city that draws in young families, not scares them away. I want the lawmakers in this community to see the big picture, that strong families make strong communities. Financial strain kills families. Let's be the community that fights against that. |
| 47 | Kathryn Mansi | |
| 48 | Patricia Syvertsen | With the increased assessments, our taxes would double, which is unacceptable. |
| 49 | jeffrey kerekes | |
| 50 | Nancy M. Godleski | 20 Court Street |