Tuesday Night! 7pm Public Service Commission's Hearing to Increase Your Rate for Delmarva Power - Salisbury University ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Do you want to pay more for your electricity? Probably not. Unfortunately, that could be in the cards unless you speak out!
On Tuesday, November 10th there will be a public hearing of the Maryland Public Service Commission at Salisbury University. The hearing will be at 7:00 PM in the Nanticoke Room (Room 236) of the Guerrieri Center.
Tuesday Night! Very Important 7pm Wicomico County - Budget Amendment: Service Cuts, Increased Taxes, and You. Please Attend and Speak Out!
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Do you feel like paying more property taxes? I doubt it. Wicomico County is experiencing a 4 million dollar plus budget short fall. County executive Rick Pollitt has proposed to clean out all the reserves and make some heavy cuts. Pollitt admits that next year's budget challenges will be worse but has no solution, after he cleans out the reserves, on how to deal with that. Pollitt has been a proponent of raising the revenue tax in Wicomico for a number of years and Councilman, Bill McCain has also echoed this desire. This means raising your property taxes! Rick Pollitt is creating the perfect storm to make a case repeal the revenue cap after the elections, next year. Read about by clicking here.
Tonight 7pm at the Wicomico Civic Center, in the Midway Room
Please come out and PLEASE speak up at the meeting for responsible spending, no revenue cap removal, and night meetings!
If you can only attend ONE meeting, Attend this one and plan to stay a while or come a bit later than the 7pm start time, as it's sure to go on for a while. Public comments are at the end. Speak out for fiscal conservatism. Tell them to not take all the reserves, Scale back government, plan for next year, and DON'T EVEN THINK about repealing the Tax Cap. Call for night meeting for transparency.
Try to hit both Tuesday night meetings. Go to SU first and register your opposition to higher electrical rates and then head over to the Civic Center. The event at the Wicomico County Council budget Public Hearing is sure to go on longer.
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6 comments:
I thought with those big new power lines running across the shore to southern Jersey we would get a break, quess not.
If it was really a tax cap on property taxes and how much they can be raised each year, that would be great. What we have in Wicomico is a REVENUE CAP. That means if the county gets more money from say a hotel room tax that taxes tourists, then the county must cut property taxes. In addition, the 2% cap won't keep pace with inflation, which averages about 3% a year and is surely going to increase. I would rather pay more local taxes as my voice is larger locally, than pay more federal where my voice is tiny. The city of Salisbury and Wicomico County are going down the crapper, maybe we should look to Sussex County, DE to see how they operate on lower taxes.
anonymous 7:06, or just move there, like I did.
All of this started with the real estate agents who were unhappy with a transfer tax on properties bought and sold. These slumlords have gone on to take over the city of Salisbury and make a killing during the real estate boom several years ago. The cap may be a good thing, maybe it need not be so restrictive.
7:06 here, trust me Joe I'm working on it now, but buying a home 13 years ago in the city of Salisbury was a huge mistake.
7:06 The Tax on hotel rooms in the county has nothing to do with the Revenue Cap.
The Revenue Cap only applies to the property tax on homes in Wicomico County.
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