City of Nashua Ever-Increasing Budgets – More Money for It Means Less for You! - Granite Grok

City of Nashua Ever-Increasing Budgets – More Money for It Means Less for You!

No matter WHO Government taxes, it always comes down to Individuals to pay. You pay your home’s property tax AND you are paying businesses’ property taxes as well (via increased costs when you buy their products and services).

The history of the Nashua budget increases should raise some eyebrows. Numbers do not lie but let us try to understand the story here. In reviewing the Nashua budgets from 2015 – 2021 the following is the actual increase that the Nashua budget:

Nashua Budget Increases

*2019 was changed in the 2020 budget book to $311,872,919

That is an increase of $100,814,315 since 2015 which is a 41.87% increase in the Nashua taxpayers’ budget. How did this happen – simple- the City of Nashua change the Actual Budget figures in 2019.

If a resident looks at the Actual budget for 2019 they will see that a $262,763,651 budget was Aldermanic Approved however when the 2020 Budget came the 2019 Aldermanic figures were changed to $311,872,919.  Nashua residents would not have checked these figures because a resident would assume that the City of Nashua would be honest and put the actual approved budget figure on the report.

What makes this even more frustrating is the fact that as of 2020 the City of Nashua stopped showing the actual increase in the budget from year to year.  The mayor is hoping that no resident will realize what he is doing. We should be able to track increases very quickly and simply.

It is also ironic that the mayor has now put in a Six-Year Budget Analysis that states that he cut the budget down by $856,593. This sure does not look like budget cuts.

To get a better picture of the mayor and the Board of Aldermen’s spending below is a comparison from 2015 thru 2022:

Nashua Mayor vs Alderman budget

The Nashua taxpayers need a mayor and Board of Aldermen that are not just going to keep spending money on their pet projects. But most importantly the Nashua taxpayers demand honesty and transparency from our elected appointed officials. There is much to improve on here.

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