Town of Hartford, New York

Last night at a Special meeting of the Hartford Town board, both the Supervisor’s Preliminary Budget and new 3 year Fire Service contract passed. Both of these items had a public hearing right before the Town board voted.
The Budget will see the following decreases in the Tax Levy (amount to be raise in taxes); Townwide [...]

There will be a Public Hearing on the Supervisor’s Preliminary Town Budget at 7pm Weds 10/27/10.  This budget, as it stands will see a 15% decrease in the Townwide Tax Levy and a 1/2% decrease in the Fire Protection Levy.
This reduction in Townwide Tax Levy can be sustained for about 3 years as long as [...]

My fellow Supervisor, Seth Pitts of Salem is heavily involved in Salem’s food bank. He informed me that Washington County is recognised as being underserved as far as food banks go.
On Oct. 20th a tractor trailer with 12 pallets of food will position itself at the Washington County Municipal Center for a mass distribution to [...]

Hartford does not have an American Legion Post, but that is OK because Hartford’s veteran’s are well served by posts in Ft. Ann, Argyle, and Granville.
Paul Milligan, a member of the Ft. Ann post contacted me about tolling of church bells on Veteran’s Day to honor our veterans. The West Ft. Ann church is going [...]

There will be a Tentative Budget Workshop at the town hall at 6:30pm Monday 10/4/10. This Tentative budget, after much analysis and research should see about a 12% reduction in the amount of tax levied over last year.  With the terrible economy, we could all use some tax relief. Please come to the workshop to [...]