Tag: Spending Cap

Watch, Listen And Participate Nashua

December 13, 2024

by Laurie Ortolano

A RECENT op-ed published in the Union Leader by Nashua Aldermen Tim Sennott, Tom Lopez and Melbourne Moran highlighted the need for aldermen and city leaders to rein in spending. Board members should view spending as a nonpartisan issue, recognizing the financial limitations that our citizens funding government face. While the op-ed raised important points, … Read more

The Nashua Spending Cap has its Day in Court

December 15, 2022

by Laurie Ortolano

On December 7, 2022, Fred Teeboom, a former alderman and self-represented, took the City of Nashua to NH Superior Court for violating Nashua’s spending cap. I had the pleasure of attending part of the hearing.

Fred Teeboom is taking the City of Nashua back to the Superior Court

July 15, 2022

by Laura Colquhoun

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.

Nashua Democrats Are Attacking the Spending Cap Again!

January 30, 2022

by Beth Scaer

On Monday, January 31, the House Municipal and County Government Committee is holding a public hearing on HB1342 which is another attempt to remove the Nashua spending cap.

I Welcome the Ballot Question But Oppose Passage and Believe It Will Backfire on Big Spender Craig.

July 10, 2021

Two years ago, Democrats, led by Mayor Joyce Craig, blocked Alderman Tim Baines’ motion to ask voters whether or not Manchester should continue with its Tax Cap.

PSA – Spending Caps and The Rooms and Meals Tax

April 25, 2021

by Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire’s Republican Majority has done some decent work on lowering taxes in this year’s session. Two of the measures they are promoting including returning more rooms and meals (sales) tax revenue to cities and towns. Another is a spending cap bill.

Mayor Gatsas Goes after The “Benfit Plan One-Percenters” in Manchester

September 26, 2018April 11, 2013

by Steve MacDonald

oil rig - theres another 'resource' we have to tap — There’s A Public Sector “Resource” That We Need to Tap…

Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas is singing a tune we like to hear and one that I have advocated for myself. What is it? Hidden in the Cadillac plans of public sector employees is a revenue resource that must be tapped.

Gatsas is standing up for taxpayers, and defending the spending cap, in his negotiations with the Teachers union with regard to Manchester’s School budget.

He said teachers still enjoy plans with zero deductibles, $5 co-pays and $50 charges for emergency room visits, while the police union, among others, recently made concessions to avoid layoffs, shifting to a plan with higher co-pays, deductibles and $150 per emergency room visit.

“With the $3 million in savings, we hired more police officers,” Gatsas said.

So why can’t the teachers do the same thing? It’s a great question.

To Spend And Protect

September 26, 2018November 11, 2010

by Steve MacDonald

Image Courtesy of The Tizona Group The State Supreme court announced that is sees a conflict between current state law and spending cap initiatives approved by voters (Manchester in particular). This is not unexpected but it is fortuitous, and to some degree ironic. In their quest to defend any liberal-leaning municipalities desire to spend beyond the ability of their residents to pay for it, groups like Keep Manchester Moving have just financed the blueprint by which the now Republican super-majority state government can adroitly engineer a fix.