Sitting town councilors are pandering commercial property owners to get the Split Tax Rate defeated before the new council is seated...
Yesterday’s Patriot carried a story that
“Janet Joakim planned to confer with town Finance Director Mark Milne when she returned from Washington D.C. to determine when to schedule the classification hearing.”
“In an interview Wednesday, Joakim did not rule out scheduling the hearing for the Nov. 15 meeting if that’s the recommendation from town staff.”
Joakim envisions a major change in the make-up of the Town Council, and a change in the town’s property tax rate policy.
Not good for commercial property owners,
but good for homeowners...
There are strong probabilities that
Eric Schwaab,
John Brennan, and
Jason Cox
will be elected and bring homeowners an overdue windfall.
On November 6th, the elected will have the consent of the governed to lead the town, but not officially until ten-days elapse to allow for challenges.
If Farnham and Munafo are rejected by voters, the Town Council has a moral and ethical obligation to suspend all decisions until the elected agents of the people are seated.
At stake is a $3.5 million tax cut for homeowners at the expense of commercial property owners.
Had the Split Tax Rate been adopted this year, the residential property tax rate would have dropped $.37, and the average priced home would have a property tax cut of $203.50
You can calculate your own tax savings through the adoption of the Split Tax Rate by multiplying your home's taxable value by .00632 and .00595, and subtracting the difference.
In 1999 the commercial property tax class paid a combined property tax of
$7,215,684,
and in 2007 $7,102,019.
In 1999 homeowner property taxes totaled
$50,418,717
and in 2007,
$74,852,367
Incredibly during the eight-year period the Cape Cod Mall doubled in size, and a sea of new commercial properties constructed,
the 148% increase in homeowner property tax
to the -3% decrease in commercial property tax
is unconscionable, to rational people, but not to greedy politicians.
The purchasing power of the 2007 to the1999 dollar is only $.85,
which means the commercial sector actually got an 18% tax cut over the eight-year period.
During the same eight-year period the state-wide commercial property tax increase was 23%.
Janet Joakim refuses to comprehend the tax inequities between the residential and commercial property owners.
She's been on the council for six of these eight years and has always voted against homeowners.
In November once again she plans to defy voters.
It's time to run the whores out of Barnstable town hall.
Remember Howard Beale's speech at the television station window in the movie Network?
I don't have to tell you things are bad.
Everybody knows things are bad.
It's a depression.
Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job.
The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shop keepers keep a gun under the counter.
Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.
We know things are bad - worse than bad.
They're crazy.
It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore.
We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms.
Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything.
Just leave us alone.
Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone.
I want you to get mad!
I don't want you to protest.
I don't want you to riot –
I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write.
I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the crime in the street.
All I know is that first you've got to get mad.
You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit!
My life has VALUE!'
So I want you to get up now.
I want all of you to get up out of your chairs.
I want you to get up right now and go to the window.
Open it, and stick your head out, and yell,
'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!'
Things have got to change.
But first, you've gotta get mad!...
You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!'
You can express your anger at the town council in silence in the privacy of the poll booth on November 6th;
Vote for reform.
Vote for change.
Tell them you're fed up with the
- $50 million airport terminal,
- School bus fees
- Excessive drop out rates
- High school graduates who can't add
- Wasteful spending
- Pot holes
- Private Roads
- Excessive homeowner tax bills
- Minuscule commercial tax bills
- Deficits
- Elect .......Eric Schwaab.
- Elect....... Jason Cox
- Elect....... John Brennan
- Elect....... Maureen Niemi
- Elect...... Tom Dolby
- Elect...... Peg Dandridge
- Elect...... Oliver Cipollini
- Elect...... John Julius
- Elect...... Bradley Ouimette
- Elect...... Taryn Thoman
- Elect...... William Cronin
Gary....
This is absolutely great...
I am going to my window right now, hold on.....
"""""I am fed up and I can't take it any more...
I am fed UP AND I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE!!!
I AM FED UP AND I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE!!!"""""
Hi, Gary are you there... boy is it cold out there tonight..Hold on ... I have to go shut the window...!
On my gosh, I feel different, I feel relieved. I am a new person. Hush....
I hear a tune way in the backgtound and the house is spinning ....
OH I am home ---- Oh it is so good to be home in a Town where there is now respect for our government; no political back-room deals; a nice system of checks and balances with a governing body that is more representative of the best interest of our Town of Barnstable and those that are in office have to follow the same rules as those that are not in office.
No Gary, It will not be the Land of OZ right away but with hard team-work; dedication and committment..we will make this town as close as possible to OZ and the Wizard will be elected!
Years from now, voters will say I am glad I listened to That COG MAN Gary Lopez, the leader for change and I let it all out and told the world how mad I was!
Who needs Geritol or today's Lavitra when we have Gary Lopez to tell it like it is. So I encourage all to go to their windows right now and let it all out. And on election day before you go to the polls prepare your scorcard and vote for change.
You will feel better too!
Vote for change.. Vote for a charter commission that will open that window and take action...
The FOLLOWING PEOPLE are great candidates to accomplish ALL of this...
PETER DOIRON
JOHN JULIUS
BRADLEY G. OUIMETTE
JOHN ALDEN
BILL CRONIN
JOHN BRENNAN
LUCIEN POYANT
TARYN THOMAN
MARCIE DUGAS
GREG MILNE
AND DEBORAH SHIFLETT-FITTON
AND IF ONE IS INCLINED, VOTE FOR ME TOO:
OLIVER CIPOLLINI
Charter Commissioner Candidates for Change
Posted by: Oliver P. Cipollini, Jr. | October 30, 2007 at 01:34 AM