Welcome to TIVERTON 1st!

Tiverton 1st is a grassroots community organization open to all who support preserving our quality of life in Tiverton by maintaining both our community and school services in a fiscally-responsible way, and promoting cooperation, compromise and community pride.
Membership is open to all Tiverton residents who are at least 18 years old & support Tiverton 1st's principles & goals (non-residents or those under 18 years old are welcome to join as non-voting members). There's no membership fee.Just email your name, address, phone # and email address to: Tiverton1st@cox.net.
You can also request to become a "Tiverton 1st Friend"& join our confidential email list.

Saturday, May 2, 2015

FTR PUBLIC HEARING ON COX CABLE 18: SAT @ 7p, SUN @ 6am & 11am, MON @ 7pm, TUE @ 11am

Thursday night's Financial Town Referendum (FTR) Public Hearing demonstrated the absolute irresponsibility and destructive nature of the Katz budget option # 2, how fully unvetted it is, designed only to push a political agenda. 

By striking contrast, the Budget Committee Budget # 1 was created over months of public hearings with input from all elected and professional town officials. It balances the needs of all in Tiverton, preserving services in a fiscally-responsible way. And unlike the Katz plan, it doesn't raid the town's savings to offset taxes, a practice stopped after 2010 when it caused the need for a nearly 10% tax increase to maintain services, because the town faced an unexpected loss of state funds and had no savings to cover it. Nor will it deliberately underfund services, as Katz admits his plan does, increasing the need for new & increased fees. 

Watch the meeting yourself and see how obvious the choice is to reject Katz' phony "tax relief" plan and support the budget designed to serve all in Tiverton: 


VOTE BUDGET 1 / BUDGET COMMITTEE PROPOSAL AT THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL TOWN REFERENDUM (FTR): MAY 14, 15, 16


Brian Medeiros
Tiverton, RI

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