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 [...]

The recent Primary vote held in the Town Hall was a little more cramped than usual. That is because the new voting machines do not have their own privacy screens. The new machine is  just a card scanner so the privacy part where you fill out the ballot is provided by a separate  privacy kiosk [...]

The Washington County Fair is now behind us. I went to the fair 3 days this year and must admit, at first I thought it was going to be a washout. But once again the weather man’s 5 day forecast couldn’t get past day 1 correctly- thank goodness. The opening ceremony had cats and dogs raining down [...]

I am not old enough to remember the TV sitcom “Car 54 where are you?” but I admit that I am old enough to know that there was such a show staring Fred Gwynne. Fred later went on to became Herman Munster.
For $1, the Hartford Volunteer Fire Company will soon have a new car. It is [...]

Hartford’s long serving Assessor, Nancy Strong will retire from the position effective 9/30/10.
The Town Board solicited applications and conducted 7 interviews for the position. We had some very qualified candidates apply and in the end chose Ms. Sandra (Hanna) Foley of Ticonderoga.
Bill McCarty, Director of Wash. County Real Property Tax Services, and Nancy Strong both [...]

Since my original posting 6/22/10 “Where angels fear to tread” much has happened and information learned in regards to my plan to relocate the Veterans’ monument currently located at the school.
My idea of relocating the monument to the area near the Old Hartford Cemetery fence, across the street from the Civil War Enlistment Center was recently [...]