It is my understanding that contrary to what we, the residents of Lincoln have been told over the years, the town of Lincoln has been subsidizing the Hanscom school costs to the order of many millions of dollars in aggregate over the years. In the last fiscal year, the subsidy exceeded $500,000. There is no justification of the subsidy. These payments could easily have been made out of the Hanscom funds that come from the Department of Defense. These payments were not budgeted as a Hanscom school expense, but as a town expense which allowed this subsidy to persist for many decades to the detriment of the Lincoln taxpayers.
Now that the subsidy has been verified and quantified, besides refunding the taxpayer, the town should revisit the base level of taxation for the town. This past fiscal year, without an override, the town has taxed the public 25% above the actual level of expenditures. Clearly, in recent years, the town has not done a bottoms up budgeting exercise to review expenditures and properly align revenues to match the actual level of justified expenditures.. They continue to increase taxes the maximum allowed without an override. We are talking about a meaningful amount of money for almost every household: $4,000 annually for the average homeowner if revenues matched the level of operating expenses. Peter Buchthal Weston Rd On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 10:35 PM Laura Glynn <[email protected]> wrote: > And while we are at it how about the overpayments towards Hanscom use of > Lincoln schools? > > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 5:34 PM Garrick Niemiec < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Anyone know what the status is on this? >> -- >> The LincolnTalk mailing list. >> To post, send mail to [email protected]. >> Browse the archives at >> https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. >> Change your subscription settings at >> https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. >> >> -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to [email protected]. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/ > . > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > >
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