Agenda Items ▸ City Manager's Agenda
CMA 2012-244
The votes necessary to seek approval from the Mass Dept. of Revenue of the tax rate for FY2013: A. Authorize the use of Free Cash of $9,000,000 to reduce the FY13 tax rate; B. Authorize $2,000,000 in overlay surplus/reserves to be used for reducing the FY13 tax rate; C. Authorize $609,570 from the School Debt Stabilization Fund to be used as a revenue source to the General Fund Budget; D. Appropriate $10,000,000 from Free Cash to the City Debt Stabilization Fund; E. Classify property into five classes; F. Adopt the minimum residential factor of 55.9809%; G. Approve the maximum residential exemption factor of 30% for owner-occupied homes; H. Vote to double the normal value of the statutory exemptions; MGL Chapter 59, Section 5, Clause 17D; J. Vote the FY13 asset limits of $58,197 allowed under MGL Chapter 59, Section 5, Clause 17E; K. Vote the FY13 income and asset limits allowed under MGL Chapter 59, Section 5, Clause 41D as
How it started
Submitted by Robert W. Healy, City Manager.
What happened
The clerk's record shows no vote or disposition against this item. Some are received and filed without one, and a roundtable takes no votes at all. If the city's record shows otherwise, that is exactly what an audit should catch.