{"id":59,"date":"2007-06-13T16:27:17","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T20:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/west-hartford-budget-defeated\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T20:27:17","slug":"west-hartford-budget-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/west-hartford-budget-defeated\/","title":{"rendered":"West Hartford Budget Defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 30% of West Hartford&#8217;s eligible voters turned out yesterday to vote on the Budget Referendum.  Sad.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/local\/fv\/hc-whdref0613.artjun13,0,2067408.story\">The budget was soundly defeated<\/a>, as 73% of those that did vote sent the message &#8220;Nice try, but go back to the drawing board, we don&#8217;t want to be taxed this much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So now the question is &#8220;What exactly will be cut in order to reduce the budget?&#8221;  Education will most likely be the main target, as it&#8217;s the largest chunk of the budget.<\/p>\n<p>My question is: what exactly is going to be the per household reduction in taxes based on the new cuts?  Are we looking at the scale of a few hundred dollars per household?  A few thousand dollars per household?  Has this been quantified by anyone?  I&#8217;m assuming it has to be a few hundred dollars per household.  So to save everyone a few hundred dollars, the main draw to West Hartford, its school system, is going to continue to be sacrificed.  Talk about taking a short term view.  Well, I guess if everyone has an extra $300 in their pocket, they can spend it at Blue Back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 30% of West Hartford&#8217;s eligible voters turned out yesterday to vote on the Budget Referendum. Sad. The budget was soundly defeated, as 73% of those that did vote sent the message &#8220;Nice try, but go back to the drawing board, we don&#8217;t want to be taxed this much.&#8221; So now the question is &#8220;What exactly will be cut in order to reduce the budget?&#8221; Education will most likely be the main target, as<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt three\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/west-hartford-budget-defeated\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-west-hartford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}