The Town of New Shoreham is looking at a property tax increase of 17.9 percent for the coming fiscal year that starts July 1, 2024. This is to support a
“At first blush, I haven’t figured out which part of the web complicates the next (part),” Second Warden Sven Risom said, describing the requests of the Sewer Commission to the Town Council. He went on to describe the agenda item as a “rushed.
“I’m going to hold firm that we should not be paying for them,” Town Manager Maryanne Crawford told the Town Council at its April 13 meeting. First Warden André Boudreau had asked Crawford if she had an update on the situation with the R.I. State.
New Shoreham is looking into the possibility of creating a new tax structure, based on classifications of different land use types. The goal of creating this tax structure, per the accompanying documents on the town’s website, is to “Modernize New.
The Town Council continued its budget process at a work session with department heads on March 28, hearing from the administration and finance departments, the police department, the fire and rescue and Emergency Management department (Dispatch),.