Monday, April 22, 2013
Council resolutions on tax cancellations, talk with General Assembly delegates on tonight's work session agenda.
Tonight the Woonsocket City Council will meet with the city's General Assembly delegatation, discuss tax cancelations for two properties and an ammendment allowing the Stadium Building to be developed as condos. The Council will meet tonight in the second floor conference room of City Hall, 169 Main St. to discuss "legislative matters that could affect Woonsocket" with the city's General Assembly delegation. They'll also discuss a proposal to convert the Stadium Building, located next door to the Stadium Theater, into condominiums. According to the Woonsocket Call, the owner intends a $1.25 million project to convert the space into 21 condo units. Economic Development Director Matt Wojcik has written a letter to Council members …
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Two meetings with General Assembly reps lead to tax hike distributed across all residential classes.
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the payments required for the supplemental tax. The supplemental bill will be due one month after its mailing. Break out your calculators again, and keep them handy - Woonsocket's General Assembly members have a new supplemental tax proposal that spreads the $2.5 million burden across all residential classes. Forget the Homestead Exemption reduction - car tax combo the Budget Commission approved Feb. 26. Instead, all residential property and commercial-residential properties with 11 units or more will each get a 4.4 percent supplemental tax bill due one month after taxpayers receive their bills. Vehicle owners will get a 12.5 percent supplemental tax bill: Residential: $1.42 per $…
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Councilors say city's troubles are shared state-wide.
The City Council asked Woonsocket’s General Assembly Delegation for help with several challenges Monday night, spending about three hours mapping out unfair taxpayer burdens they said communities statewide would benefit from fixing. Representatives Lisa Baldelli Hunt (D-Dist. 49, Woonsocket), Stephen Casey (D-Dist. 50), Bob Phillips (D-Dist. 51) and Senators Marc A. Cote, (D-Dist. 24) and Roger A. Picard (D-Dist. 20) attended. William Coyle, Real Estate consultant and principal of William E. Coyle Jr. and Associates of Pawtucket, spoke to legislators and the council about subsidized housing taxes at the invitation of Councilor Albert Brien. Council President John Ward said the city's subsidized housing units only pay eight percent of …
Lotus Lily
8:31 pm on Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Really seriously? Our elected officials are all idiots, including our own Mayor Fontaine! Baboons have more brains then all of them put together. We don't need anymore useless condo's that only the drug dealers can afford! What we desperately need is more jobs! I hear our great leaders moaning about this and that YET NOT ONE SINCE ELECTION HAS DONE ANYTHING SUBSTANTIAL TO BRING JOBS HERE TO … more ›