As a business reporter, I write about small businesses opening and closing, manufacturing, food and drink, labor issues and economic data. I particularly love writing about the impact of state and federal policy on local businesses. I also do some education reporting, covering colleges in southeastern Connecticut and regional K-12 issues.
Erica Moser
As a business reporter, I write about small businesses opening and closing, manufacturing, food and drink, labor issues and economic data. I particularly love writing about the impact of state and federal policy on local businesses. I also do some education reporting, covering colleges in southeastern Connecticut and regional K-12 issues.
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Published June 14. 2021 12:01AM
When will Norwich officials learn?
Currently, taxpayers in the town district pay their own taxes, .32 mills for volunteer fire protection, and another $3,299,876 for the overbudget Norwich Fire Department, which directly violates the “Special Benefit” described in the City Charter. Volunteers protect 87% of Norwich (and 9 out of the 10 top taxpayers!) and handled 2,852 calls for only $642,980 last year, while the paid department covered 13% of Norwich with only 2,404 calls for $10,071,521.
The $3.29 million diverted from the Norwich Public Utilities contribution is supposed to go into the General Fund for all taxpayers to benefit from, not diverted to lower the City Consolidated District fire tax. Considering the recent Fire Study described the volunteer fire service routine performance as an impressive feat, and in 2017 taxpayers voted by a 20% margin to purchase five new trucks for volunteers, its obvious taxpayers trust the volunteer s