Monday’s Board of Estimate and Taxation meeting on Zoom.
NORWALK, Conn. — You appear to be set for virtually no increase in your Norwalk property taxes this year, courtesy of the American Rescue Plan.
The Board of Estimate and Taxation voted unanimously Monday to approve a 2021-22 tentative operating budget that carries no increase in the mill rate, factoring in $12.9 million of American Rescue Plan funding. It offers
no increase for the Board of Education – so that’s a 0% increase instead of the 2.6% increase that drew Board member protests – but Norwalk Chief Financial Officer Henry Dachowitz and Mayor Harry Rilling said they expect American Rescue Plan dollars to give Norwalk Public Schools the funding it needs.