Mayor Art Ward sent this out to many officials this morning:
I just read the article in today's Hartford Courant with regard to the proposed UNFUNDED MANDATE being considered for the school breakfast initiative. While the intent of the legislation is admirable, the fact of the matter is that communities are being deluged with so many of these unfunded mandates that their passage threatens the ability of cities to adequately address the financial stability of their own budgetary process, creates hurdles for any potential for the enhancement of any successful existing programs and in fact places an unjust tax burden on everyone.If the legislature ultimately decides not to increase funding to the communities this fiscal year, as has been reported to be the consideration, then it is imperative that absolutely NO MORE UNFUNDED MANDATES be placed into the laps of local taxpayers.Legislators only need to heed the difficulty of the communities which they represent in arriving at annual budget figures to see the onus that legislation such as the proposed bill would unduly place on their constituents.It is time for everyone to realize the fact that present times call for Realism not Idealism.
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Contact Steve Collins at scollins@bristolpress.com
16 comments:
Maybe local leaders should show the way by reducing expenditures and LOWERING TAXES !!!!!
That might show those in the State legislature how it should be done .
Of course this will NOT happen as long as Bristols' policy is to Spend and then Tax to meet the burden THEY create .
Someone please give him a gift certificate to a writing course and take his thesaurus away.
Besides that, his memo states the obvious. Why did he send this to officials AND the media? So the media would put it on here as a way to show the public that on a Sunday morning he's still working for the taxpayers.
OK Ward, for your next trick can you get rid of some of the useless employees we have working for the City? I'd like my taxes to go down. Times like these require a good Mayor to make the tough decisions for the taxpayers instead of the union that flip his campaign bill.
He's afraid people are going to move out of town because their taxes are going up but he won't do anything within his power to prevent that from happening.
And in the meantime the Zoning Board is making good local businesses jump through hoops just to bring in customers.
Nothing like shooting off your nose to spite your face.
Art,it is a DEMOCRAT controlled legislature.
I hope you are not holding page 1 for this newsflash. Duh.
Pardon the interuption of all you naysayers but this is a good move on the city of Bristol's part.
Unfunded mandates need to be stopped.
Art is doing what he needs to be doing -- showing leadership.
You may all go back to your negative thoughts.
What have you done for Bristol today besides whine and complain?
Empty promises and posturing for the media does not add up to Leadership in anyone's book.
4:48, If our articulate Mayor's facund and capacious vocabulary has left you perplexed and discombobulated, perhaps the quintessence of the dilemma is a prodigious paucity in your erudition. This paucity certainly explicates your benighted and desultory diatribe.
Nothing like shooting off your oral cavity without engaging your cranial matter....
anonymous said...
Empty promises and posturing for the media does not add up to Leadership in anyone's book.
April 28, 2008 3:42 PM
SURE IT DOES, IF YOU THROW ENOUGH ADJECTIVES INTO THE SENTENCES. I WILL HAPPILY CONTRIBUTE TO THE MAYORAL WRITING COURSE FUND IF ONE IS STARTED.
Can you believe with a veto proof Legislature this clown is trying to somehow implicate Republicans?
Stop Bristol from moving back-Ward in 2009! Dump Ward!
Ward makes an excellent point about the breakfast "I need the money for cigarettes" program.
Wait a minute maybe he's OK (I read the article this time ha-ha)!
No more unfunded mandates from the Democrat controlled legislature. And we need a governor with some guts to veto something. What's she doing anyway?
Dump Rell in 2010!!!
Ah man, now we have upset the mayor's ghost-writer. Sorry! The paucity of our remarks was not meant to discombobulate.
Called shifting the blame. Right Art?
Ah gee, thanks 9:25 No apology necessary. I should point out though that you're the one who appears to be slightly more than a little discombobulated. Perhaps you should consider doing something about that paucity in your erudition (or at least maybe invest in a dictionary). Sounds like you could use a little more of both!
Sorry 8:20am, I lent them to the mayor!
Ah, too bad 2:25. You should've kept it. It's pretty obvious that you could use the dictionary more! (You couldn't have lent him your erudition though because....well, why don't you get that dictionary back and look it up!( :~)
Art, any follow up response or report???
Or was it just another press release?
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