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revaluation in the budget is one third of the contract as one third of the town is revalued eash year. These questions can be asked at finance committee meetings but noone ever shows up to ask any questions. There is a schedule of dates when various budgets will be discussed. Ask the finance director or a member of the finance committee.
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You have got to be kidding!!!
I want to see the town budget that has grown 14 million in 9 years all because of the teachers. What about the cops overtime, and the fire department overtime so they can sleep in between their real jobs (plumber, carpenter, handyman, etc).
Teachers do not get overtime pay. What part of that sentence do you not understand. Many of the responses to these questions and complaints talk about the $500 a teacher will get for working for 30 years. Yippee!!! what a gift. Divide that by 52 and what do you get? No even a cup of coffee? How come the people of this CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP
town do not understand that the employees of this town do not get a discount at Shaws, Stop and Shop or anywhere else because we work here. You want, want, want but you don't want to pay for it!!!! The people of this town are the tightest people with a buck that I have ever seen. Why don't you people remember that we spent more money on litigation to get rid of Bill Sweeney that the teacher's contract will cost this year. How come the people who are retired don't want to give cost of living increases to people who STILL work? But they would more than love to grab a COLA for themselves for doing
NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING!!!!!! I work for the school department, and you know what the 1% will give me this year? $.12, that's correct. by the time the state and federal gov't get through with it, I won't be able to buy a small coffee at DD. So stop complaining about the teachers in this town. They give your children the best education in the South Shore for the Least amount of money on the South Shore. And by the way, maybe you should look at the school buildings themselves. They are a mess and this tight town won't increase anything to fix them. The roof of many of the leak, the rooms are cold and hot alternatly. You want to talk about the schools, take a tour first then you can talk about the school. If not, just shut up.
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This CHEAP, CHEAP, town right
Braintree Budget Growth Details shows trends.
I did some research last night on how the town spends it's money. I used the Finance Committee's handbooks of FY96 (town budget was $56,886,147)and teh FY04 book (town budget was $84,734,842). Over past nine years, the town's budget has grown 49% (almost 5.44% each year on average) or a total growth of $27,848,675. We're spending more than we can raise under Prop 2 1/2.
Where are the monies going over that same period? Here are the results:
1. Personnel Dept grew $206,692 or 209% for paper pushing! Hmm, chop there.
2. Group Health Insurance costs have risen 140% or by +$2,466,509. It's out of control everywhere, not just Braintree.
3. Health Dept: +75% or +$127,533.
4. Waste Disposal Costs: +$560,913.
5. Water & Sewer: +54% or +$3.115Million and GROWING LEAPS & LEAPS.
6. Schools: +50% or +$14.7Million growth over past 9 budgets???????Hmm?
7. Inspection: +48% or +$138,107.
8. WorkersComp: +45% or +112,381.
9. Assessors: +36% or +$50,528.
10. Selectmen's: +35% or +57,727.
11. Engineering: +32% or +$85,517.
12. Police: +30% or +$1,385,884.
13. Library: +30% or $235,138.
14. Fire: +21% or +$962,588.
15. Parks: +20% or +101,505.
16. Planning & Cons: +19% or +$40759.
17. Legal: +8% or +$20,679
18. Highway Dept actually went down over past nine years by -15% or -$275,602. No wonder why our roads are what they are!
In summary,our town budget has grown by almost $28Mil over the past nine years at a rate of nearly 5.5% a year. We can only increase taxes by 2.5%, so this research tells the story. The CASH COW IS THE SCHOOLS FOR SURE, but any dept that has exceeded the 2.5% growth each year over the last nine years needs to be attacked at Town Meeting! That involves departments listed above from Personnel through Library who are getting a bigger budget than Braintree can afford each year? Comments?
MINE NOT HIS!
THE COLD FLASHES MIGHT BE CHANGE OF LIFE,NOT FAULTY HEATING!!
By TMM12
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This CHEAP, CHEAP, town right
Braintree Budget Growth Details shows trends.
I did some research last night on how the town spends it's money. I used the Finance Committee's handbooks of FY96 (town budget was $56,886,147)and teh FY04 book (town budget was $84,734,842). Over past nine years, the town's budget has grown 49% (almost 5.44% each year on average) or a total growth of $27,848,675. We're spending more than we can raise under Prop 2 1/2.
Where are the monies going over that same period? Here are the results:
1. Personnel Dept grew $206,692 or 209% for paper pushing! Hmm, chop there.
2. Group Health Insurance costs have risen 140% or by +$2,466,509. It's out of control everywhere, not just Braintree.
3. Health Dept: +75% or +$127,533.
4. Waste Disposal Costs: +$560,913.
5. Water & Sewer: +54% or +$3.115Million and GROWING LEAPS & LEAPS.
6. Schools: +50% or +$14.7Million growth over past 9 budgets???????Hmm?
7. Inspection: +48% or +$138,107.
8. WorkersComp: +45% or +112,381.
9. Assessors: +36% or +$50,528.
10. Selectmen's: +35% or +57,727.
11. Engineering: +32% or +$85,517.
12. Police: +30% or +$1,385,884.
13. Library: +30% or $235,138.
14. Fire: +21% or +$962,588.
15. Parks: +20% or +101,505.
16. Planning & Cons: +19% or +$40759.
17. Legal: +8% or +$20,679
18. Highway Dept actually went down over past nine years by -15% or -$275,602. No wonder why our roads are what they are!
In summary,our town budget has grown by almost $28Mil over the past nine years at a rate of nearly 5.5% a year. We can only increase taxes by 2.5%, so this research tells the story. The CASH COW IS THE SCHOOLS FOR SURE, but any dept that has exceeded the 2.5% growth each year over the last nine years needs to be attacked at Town Meeting! That involves departments listed above from Personnel through Library who are getting a bigger budget than Braintree can afford each year? Comments?
MINE NOT HIS!
THE COLD FLASHES MIGHT BE CHANGE OF LIFE,NOT FAULTY HEATING!!
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