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From YouTube: City of Groton Annual Budget Meeting - 6/4/18
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City of Groton, CT municipal meeting - City of Groton Annual Budget Meeting, June 4, 2018.
B
Here
I
have
a
return
of
the
posting
that
was
posted
in
the
Municipal
Building
and
published
in
the
New
London
day,
with
the
announcement
of
the
meeting
on
May
22nd
2018,
all
electors
and
citizens
qualified
to
vote
in
the
city
of
Groton
annual
budget
meeting
are
hereby
notified
in
worn
to
assemble
at
the
annual
budget
meeting
City
Municipal
Building
295
Meridian
Street
Groton
Connecticut
on
Monday
June
7th,
not
Monday,
June
4th
2018
at
7
o'clock
p.m.
prevailing
time
for
the
purpose
of
acting
on
the
following
matters
in
accordant.
B
This
is
the
warning
to
electors
in
accordance
with
section
7
6
of
the
general
statutes
of
the
state
of
Connecticut,
as
amended.
Only
in
elector
of
the
city
of
Bryan
or
a
citizen
of
the
United
States
of
the
age
of
18
or
more
who
jointly
or
severally,
is
liable
to
the
city
for
taxes
assessed
against
him
or
her
on
an
assessment
of
not
less
than
$1,000
on
the
last
completed
grand
list
of
the
city
of
Groton
or
who
would
be
so
liable,
if
not
entitled
to
an
exemption
as
a
blind
person.
A
This
is
the
mayor's
budget
message:
fiscal
year,
2018
2019
has
required
of
article
6
section
2,
a
of
a
charter
I
submit
to
you
the
proposed
budget
for
fiscal
year,
2019
FY
2019,
submitting
a
budget
which
putting
includes
a
decrease
of
eight
hundred.
Ninety
eight
thousand
five
hundred
fifty-two
dollars
in
comparison
to
FY
2018
proposed
budget
would
produce
a
decrease
of
0.6
four
mil,
resulting
in
a
mill
rate
of
four
point.
Five,
eight
for
tax
payers.
A
This
would
mean
tax
decrease
of
$64
for
$100,000
of
assessed
property
by
the
budget
removes
the
water
pollution
control
authority
from
the
general
fund
into
its
own
enterprise
fund,
which
will
no
longer
be
funded
by
taxes.
This
budget
also
follows
the
FY
18
budget,
with
funding
for
capital
projects
continuously
contains
six
hundred
and
seventy
five
thousand
dollars
for
undesignated
capital
projects.
This
will
allow
us
to
prioritize
items
from
a
CIP
that
have
been
held
off
over
the
past
few
several
years.
A
You'll
also
find
this
budget
continued
efforts
to
reserve
funds,
the
future
perfect
purchases
of
vehicles,
the
use
of
the
unda
undesignated
fund
balance
will
be
four
hundred
thousand
dollars.
This
will
leave
a
healthy
reserve
at
twenty
two
point:
five
percent
slightly
higher
than
FY
2018.
The
city
continues
to
be
fiscally
responsible,
sincerely
Keith
Henry.
A
Ninety
thousand
eight
hundred
ninety
one
dollars
public
buildings,
180
thousand
two
hundred
seven
dollars;
there's
nothing
for
pollution;
abatement,
Parks
and
Recreation
Department.
Putting
me
in
two
hundred
four
thousand
four
hundred
sixty
two
dollars:
non-departmental
one
hundred
and
ten
thousand
dollars
debt
service.
Three
hundred
eighty
four
thousand
two
hundred
six
dollars
contingency,
seven
hundred
ninety
thousand
dollars
total
general
fund.
A
Before
we
start,
I
just
want
to
read
a
section
from
Robert's
Rules.
This
is
in
in
debate.
Your
speech
must
relate
to
the
motion
under
discussion.
The
rule
is
that
your
remarks
must
be
germane,
that
is,
they
must
have
a
bearing
on
whether
the
pending
motion
should
be
to
be
adopt.
Going
off
on
a
relevant
topics
is
not
an
order.
A
C
B
A
B
D
D
A
A
A
A
A
E
D
A
D
Move
on
I,
like
T
rod,
just
filled
people
in
on
a
lot
of
these
things.
Cuz
we've
done
some
I've
done
some
research
or
my
crochets
on
some
research
dealing
with
revenues
and
things
so
I'll.
Just
read
some
things
to
you
say
that
you
know
where
we
are
today:
okay,
the
electric
revenues
down
eight
and
this
past
year,
ending
June
30th.
D
D
A
A
D
D
D
D
D
There's
a
lot
of
money
that
people
just
don't
even
have
a
clue
on
how
it
comes
in
and
out
of
the
budget.
I
just
wanted
tell
them
that.
Lastly,
our
2017
Khafre
just
came
out
three
days
ago
before
such
a
city,
budget,
meeting
and
I
think
that
is
just
simply
went
entirely
financial
reporting.
If,
if
the
SEC
had
anything
to
do
with
us,
we
we
would
be
like
in
violation.
F
F
B
F
A
F
F
A
A
A
F
F
A
Guys,
if
you
read
the
posting,
the
reason
you
were
asked
was
to
come
out
to
vote
for
the
sewer
budget,
and
that
was
never
the
intent
of
tonight
the
tonight's
budget.
This
is
the
municipal
budget.
The
sewer
budget
is
not
going
to
be
voted
on
tonight.
Just
gonna
be
voted
on
on
the
18th.
That's
that's
the
truth.
Okay
I
have
tried
to
be
as
transparent
as
we
possibly
can
about.
This
we've
been
talking
about
the
sewer
usage
fees
since
January
and
we've
had
public
hearings.
We've
had
public
information,
we
put
it
on
Facebook.
A
We
put
it
on
our
website
to
get
the
information
out.
Okay
and
we
try
to
get
as
much
information
out
as
we
possibly
could.
One
of
the
things
that
the
utility
did
is
on
the
18th.
They
sent
out
their
first
fire
two
months
in
advance
to
let
people
know
that
the
fee
was
coming
and
that's
surprised
some
people,
because
they
said
wait
a
minute.
Where
does
come
from
right.
E
A
F
Feel
like
that,
you
could,
if
you
sent
a
letter
out,
you
could
probably
send
a
letter
off
so
the
thousands
of
people
like
this
room
of
100
people
here
it
doesn't
represent
a
thousand
people
in
the
city
of
Groton,
I'm
sure
there's
more
people
out
there
that
have
no
idea
that
this
is
going
on,
and
this
is
my
voted
on
and
a
messing.
That's
your
fault
directly,
but
as
a
resident
who,
like
I
I,
feel
like
I,
haven't
been
informed
enough
and
and
the
vote
on
this
stuff,
like
one
vote,
impacts
the
other
vote.
F
A
G
F
F
H
H
Right
and
and
I
attended
one
of
those
meetings
it
was
announced
publicly.
It
was
helped
publicly
and
it
was
the
council
voted
at
that
time.
So,
as
I
understand
it
mayor
that
the
meeting
next
month
is
not
to
decide
whether
or
not
to
keep
the
fees
in
the
municipal
budget,
that's
already
been
decided
right.
G
H
C
H
H
A
E
Aubrey
property
owner
1618,
Spicer
Avenue,
the
only
point
I
wanted
to
make
is
once
you
vote
on
a
budget
you're
doing
it
here
in
the
city
tonight,
it'll
be
done
tomorrow,
night
in
the
town.
You
cannot
change
these
numbers.
You
can't
say,
because
something
doesn't
go
well
later
on.
You
can
come
back
and
change
the
numbers
so
you're
wrong.
With
what
you're
saying.
D
E
I
gotta
say
that
I
think
the
exposure
of
the
information
has
been
most
adequate.
You
got
to
take
the
time
to
go
online,
read
something
if
you
can't
go
online,
pick
up
the
phone
and
talk
to
somebody,
but
don't
necessarily
think
that
your
neighbor
that's
got
a
gender.
It's
going
to
give
you
the
accurate
information
when
somebody
sells
a
house
and
somebody
asks
them
how
much
he
sold
it
for
it's
gonna
be
one
place
when
you
ask
the
guy
that
bought
it,
it's
going
to
be
another
price,
it's
just
the
way
human
nature
is
so.
E
F
E
F
F
A
D
H
D
H
D
So,
okay,
there
is
done
yeah,
so
let
me
just
say:
did
they
did
you
know
your
fees
were
gonna?
Go
up?
Did
you
did
you
know?
There's
a
military
family
living
like
over
on
Eastwood
he's
going
off
to
duty
and
his
sitting
fees
are
going
to
increase
a
hundred
percent.
You
know
that
you're
doing
that
to
people.
D
Do
you
know
that
people
across
the
street
of
the
Carlos,
your
city
fees,
will
increase
a
hundred
percent,
so
whether
you
come
feels
live
upon
fees
or
taxes,
you're
increasing
people's
fees,
the
city
as
much
as
on
100
percent
line,
particularly,
is
it
going
to
be
whether
it
was
a
1.1
know
rate
or
this
little
sewer
tax?
It's
probably
about
a
wash.
My
house
is
a
350,000,
our
assessment,
the
lower
your
assessment,
the
higher
your
rate
would
be.
You
could.
A
D
E
D
G
Neiman
76
Allen,
Street
I
just
want
to
say
that
I
have
come
down
here
and
when
I
got
the
little
yellow
piece
of
paper,
I
was
not
happy
with
the
numbers,
but
I
was
a
I
was
aware
of
it.
I
knew
I
followed.
The
meetings
knew
that
separation
was
being
taken
place,
that
we
would
be
charged
a
sewer
fee
which,
from
what
I
understand
every
municipality
is
charging
sewer
fees,
we're
only
catching
up,
so
we
as
residents
and
citizens,
need
to
keep
track
of
what's
going
on
and
not
just
in
one
area.
A
To
make
an
amendment
you
need
to,
you
didn't
need
to
propose
another
number,
but
if
you
go
into
the
Charter,
the
Charter
says
no
amount
of
money
less
than
or
more
than
that
recommended
for.
The
total
budget
may
be
approved
at
the
annual
budget
meeting,
except
by
majority
vote
of
electors
and
qualified
citizens
present
and
voting
in
a
number
equal
to
that
to
at
least
5%
of
the
electors
of
the
city.