After months of haggling with the Municipal Accountability Review Board (MARB), the City Council bit the bullet, Monday night, and passed a five-year recovery plan that would include raising taxes over that time span. To make the pain even worse for … [Read more...] about Council passes 5-year fiscal package
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Rossi hopes to avert Tier IV designation
Threats by the state’s review panel to put West Haven into its most stringent category of oversight, and virtually taking over city finances, came a step closer to reality last week with its monthly meeting in Hartford last week. The Municipal … [Read more...] about Rossi hopes to avert Tier IV designation
Deficit! FY17 audit in red
The city is, once again, in an operating deficit. That was the conclusion the city’s auditors came to when the much-delayed audit for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2017 was released last week. Mayor Nancy Rossi announced that the city … [Read more...] about Deficit! FY17 audit in red
Rossi presents 5-year plan to MARB
Mayor Nancy R. Rossi presented a draft of the city’s five-year recovery plan to the state Municipal Accountability Review Board on June 7 in Hartford. The draft plan, which accounts for the city, Water Pollution Control Plant and City of West … [Read more...] about Rossi presents 5-year plan to MARB
MARB decision awaited on revised budget
It was a long haul, but when it was all over, the city may have avoided a complete takeover by the Municipal Accountability Review Board. At least, that is the hope of Mayor Nancy Rossi and other city officials. A revised budget was passed by the … [Read more...] about MARB decision awaited on revised budget
Council looks beyond failure
With a late-night vote of 8-5, the City Council failed to pass an ordinance approving Mayor Nancy Rossi’s $162.86 million budget. The failed vote, the second one in as many years, means the package went into effect as proposed. Both Rossi, and City … [Read more...] about Council looks beyond failure
MARB has final say on budget
While the City Council looks over the mayor’s proposed $162.86 million budget, its work is under the final scrutiny of the Municipal Accountability Review Board (MARB), which has the power to veto the work the council completes on May 3. Empaneled … [Read more...] about MARB has final say on budget
Rossi looks for bigger cuts
With the Municipal Accountability Review Board looking for “structural changes” to the city’s proposed budget before it releases a hoped-for $8 million in aid, Mayor Nancy Rossi is expecting to work with the City Council over the next few weeks to … [Read more...] about Rossi looks for bigger cuts
Council begins its budget review
With the annual public hearing now complete, the City Council begins a six-week, twice-weekly review of Mayor Nancy Rossi’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2019. The charter-mandated review ends May 3 when the council will be required to pass a … [Read more...] about Council begins its budget review
Dear Felicia
You’d be perfeckly within your rights to think it ain’t, but believe it or not, honeybunch, it’s spring. Yup. The calendar changed and we are now in the spring of the year. Effen yew’ve been like Cobina, getting in the gassamobuggy each morning, it’s … [Read more...] about Dear Felicia