| # | Name | Comments |
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| 251 | Magdalena McIntyre | |
| 252 | C Michael Tucker | |
| 253 | Anonymous | |
| 254 | Roberta Okwuosa | 21 & 22 VALLEY PL SOUTH
DIRTY NEW HAVEN, CT 06515 |
| 255 | Anonymous | New Haven must significantly reduce the mill rate, or the city will drive out its tax base. The down turn of the housing market means that the recent reassessments are going to be meaningless ; they will not reflect the true value of our homes, and meanwhile, we are paying skyrocketing taxes and for what? For police who don't police, for a mayor who preens in front of the camera and ignores the city, for schools that don't prepare its kids to get decent paying jobs? |
| 256 | Eamonn Mahoney | |
| 257 | Elizabeth Suatoni | If taxes go up we will most likely have to move out of New Haven. This exodus will be a bad thing for the city in many ways - including financial. |
| 258 | Anonymous | |
| 259 | Carol Caprio | This is utterly ridiculous! Does the mayor even know what he is doing? You are forcing young, urban professionals like myself out of this city. If you are going to raise our assessments then you better be prepared to lower the mill rate considerably. Do you want to keep residential housing in New Haven or have it eventually be a concrete jungle full of apartment buildings, since that is the only way people in this city are going to find it feasible to live here! |
| 260 | Audrey L Downey | New Haven is a beautiful city, the high tax rate
will drive middle class out of the city. The city
will eventually die because of it.
Please save New Haven. |
| 261 | Linda J. Proto | 1809 Ella T Grasso Blvd.
New Haven, CT 06511 |
| 262 | Carole Morgan | 232 Bradley St. New Haven 06510 |
| 263 | David Ladd | |
| 264 | Elsie Chapman | |
| 265 | Elizabeth Prescott | |
| 266 | Elizabeth Prescott | |
| 267 | Peter Snow | Willow St, New Haven |
| 268 | Anonymous | On a more personal note, New Haven will surely see a mass exodus if it raises taxes significantly. Please note that a significant increase in our tax base coupled with a still relatively weak school system will make the surrounding neighborhoods far more attractive. In a telecommuting world and the highly balkanized environment of Connecticut's property tax system, living outside of New Haven and enjoying its services is far easier than one might imagine. |
| 269 | Amanda Solem | 154 Willard St
New Haven,CT
06515 |
| 270 | Joseph Stinson | |
| 271 | reginald augustine | please see fit to keep New Haven affordable. Between tax rate hikes, the cost of gas , and the electric rates, let alone health care, you can no longer afford to live in this city. At best we are existing. |
| 272 | Vincent Marottoli | right on; New Haven is more like Oakland Ca |
| 273 | Stefanie Lapetina | |
| 274 | Frank kowalonek | 502 Chapel St apt 1 |
| 275 | Anonymous | There has to be an end to the spiralling costs resulting from a history administrative padding and union pandering, an out of controll Board of Education and their school construction fiasco, this lack of fiscal leadership has to end before this city becomes another Bridgeport. Has anything and I mean anything the city has been involved in over the last decade even been remotely sucessfull. The mayor has to stop coddling the special interests and enact some hard cost-cutting legislation that will benefit every resident of New Haven.(for once). I do applaud the Governers proposed tax cap it's the only way to controll this runaway administration, too bad it is a year too late for most of us. I find it hard to justify living here, and it only seems to be getting worse.
P.S. Opening a few new restaurants does not indicate a rebirth of downtown New Haven, as touted by the current admistration. Aside from Yale this city has no realistic plan for economic development and cannot even make a rational policy desicion without it becoming a significant and often recurring costs to the taxpayers. When is everyone going to finally wake up and demand some accountbility from the current administration. |
| 276 | Sandra Dias | 502 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06511 |
| 277 | Anonymous | |
| 278 | Jeffrey Russek | I pay almost $5000 a year for a 1400 square foot house. I have no kids in school and use very few services. The few services I do use, like recycling, are done inconsistently and messy. What am i paying for? |
| 279 | Sandra Dias | 502 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06511 |
| 280 | Mark Guzman | With the combination of the drastice energy rates, this increase will pose a significant burden on the middle and lower class families in new haven. This is poor timing considering the economic plight of many in new haven. |
| 281 | james J. Johnson | 201 Concord Street |
| 282 | Susanne Roberts | |
| 283 | Susanne Roberts | |
| 284 | Stephen Victor | We have lived in the same house in New Haven since 1979. The increase in property values has surpassed our ability to pay taxes. We'd love to retire and stay in our same house in New Haven, and continue contributing to the community, through our taxes, our jobs and our volunteer activities, but we don't think we can afford to stay. Please cut the mil rate substantially. |
| 285 | angela covington | |
| 286 | Santiago Berrios-Bones | |
| 287 | amalia and frank landolfi | April 20,2007
We attended last night's meeting and hope our voices were heard. It seems though that the city will not lower the mill rate the way we hoped. We will most likely be selling our home, simply because we cannot justify one-third of our income paying for taxes and sacrificing simple things in life when the city doesn't seem to want to sacrifice anything from the budget or at least question costs on the new proposed budget. We hope all taxpayer's efforts are worth it.
Thanks for your effort,
Amalia and Frank Landolfi |
| 288 | linda saracco | I do not have a computer but am using my daughter's computer and e-mail. I am a senior citizen and cannot afford taxes for the new proposed budget. Thank-you |
| 289 | Linda Torfason | |
| 290 | Eva Geertz | I am an owner and resident of:
242 Nicoll Street
New Haven, CT 06511 |
| 291 | Ben Geertz | |
| 292 | Robert & Vandelina Esposito | address:
1010 Townsend Avenue
New Haven, CT 06512 |
| 293 | Bob Bishop | For New Haven to truly growth and reach its potential, spending MUST be brought under control. The answer is not more taxes. |
| 294 | Anonymous | petition to lower mil rate |
| 295 | Anonymous | This is completely rediculous. You are making New Haven a city that is impossible to live in. Between the UI and these higher taxes, you are giving people no choice but to move out of the city. As always the mayor only seems concerned with the rich and the poor, leaving the middle class to foot the bills. |
| 296 | daniel butler | 78 Atwater St.
New Haven CT. 06513 |
| 297 | jennifer butler | 78 Atwater St.
New Haven CT. 06513 |
| 298 | Anonymous | I am for lowering the mill rate, it's hard to make ends meat with the rates were going at now. |
| 299 | Jordan Bruce | 43 Westwood Rd.
New aven, CT 06515 |
| 300 | mallory diedrich | it is insane to ask the two smallest areas of new haven to carry more then half the tax load. It is insulting to those of us who want to live in a place we can afford to maintain |