Enough is enough! Mr. Fred Teeboom is taking the City of Nashua back to the Superior Court to enforce the Spending Cap correctly. It seems that this year the City of Nashua was creative in adding in grant fund expenses over which the Nashua taxpayers have no control.
The City of Nashua did this action in order to spend more money than it was entitled to spend therefore going over the Spending Cap.
PRESS RELEASE
July 14, 2022
Petition for Writ of Mandamus
Filed Against the City of Nashua
For Violating the Spending Cap Law
(NH Superior Court Case #226-2022-CV-00252)
The City of Nashua has been ordered to appear in NH Superior Court to respond to a complaint that city government violates the State and local law Spending Cap law.
The Petition for a Writ of Mandamus was brought by Fred S. Teeboom, author of the Spending Cap and a former alderman-at-large.
Spending and tax caps have been ordained in New Hampshire state law since 2011 for any city or town voting to adopt a cap on its local spending and taxes.
The Nashua Spending Cap was adopted into its charter in 1993 following a citizens’ referendum to place a reasonable limit on the annual increase of the city budget and curb excessive and often wasteful spending. The Spending Cap has been cited by the ratings agencies in assigning Nashua its AAA bond rating.
Many thousands voted to adopt the cap, and in a later election many thousands voted to soundly defeat the teachers’ union initiative to eliminate the cap.
The Nashua Spending Cap has prevailed over challenges to its validity in the courts, attempted elimination through election, and deliberate misinterpretation. It was renewed last year with an amendment to the 2011 NH spending/tax cap law that affirmed and re-validated Nashua’s Spending Cap over a 3:2 NH Supreme Court opinion in 2019 that it was unenforceable.
The Nashua Spending cap was enforced by the city for 22 years with an occasional “override” until the Donchess administration took office in 2016 and promptly attempted to eviscerate the cap. The city’s latest attempt is to manipulate and corrupt the Spending Cap so that what is in actuality a FY23 annual budget $8.5 million above the cap has been misrepresented as $113.3 million below the cap.
Enough is enough! We hope to have the Superior Court order the Nashua Spending Cap correctly enforced.
For more information, contact:
Fred S. Teeboom
24 Cheyenne Drive
Home: (603) 889-2316 (primary)
Mobile: (603) 233-8886
