While you are thinking on how to pay for Christmas, Templeton had a potential to collect $11,405,047.00 in real estate taxes. (budget book fy23 page 23) FY23 school district expense for the town of Templeton shown as $7,322,433.00 (fy23 budget book page 278)
Town employee health insurance and retirement costs equal about 2.5 million dollars. So there is quick and dirty math on where your real estate taxes go.
FY23 budget book, page 137 (revised) shows Templeton snow & ice budget is funded on average 100 thousand dollars less than what it should be. The next town meeting, May 2023, meeting members should insist on a snow & Ice budget of at least 250 thousand dollars. When a town deficit spends snow & Ice, think charge it and eventually town has to find the money to cover the bills. Not smart.
Same thing with leasing for things, it just creates future debt obligation and takes away tax dollars that could be used for roads, drains, sidewalks, etc. Why is there no capital requests for roads, drains, sidewalks, etc.?
Reading your latest post I couldn't help but wonder how you even begin to have a Capital Plan before you have an INVENTORY of present ASSETS.
ReplyDeleteTempleton wastes so much money mismanaging what we have and very little effort planning for what we need..............we are now paying dearly for this mismanagement if you haven't looked at the budget lately.
More and more of the budget is going to government mandates and less and less to deliver actual services to taxpayers