Town Budget Information

 

Current Mill rate for West Hartford is 37.54.

A list of Town’s Mill rates is available at the State of CT website

 

-         XCEL Worksheet to calculate your taxes with the newly adopted cessation of phase-in and the 37.54 Mill Rate This spreadsheet will give you the taxes you would have paid with the phase-in as well as the currently adopted no phase-in amount (You need to know your assessment prior to the 2006 revaluation as well as the assessment after revaluation – This can be obtained from the Town’s online property records system Just plug the values into the yellow highlighted fields in the spreadsheet which are currently filled with sample numbers – The rest will be automatically calculated for you)   If you cannot find your assessment information from the online property Records system please contact the Town Assessor’s office.  Basically, to calculate your tax bill you take the assessment amount (which is normally 70% of the market value of your home/property that is recorded by the Assessment office, but will for 2009 be the assessment used last year) and divide that amount by 1000 and multiply it by the Mill rate.

 

-         Memo From Chip Ward – Where the $1.3 million BOE surplus came from

 

-         Memo from the Town Manager about the budget and reductions.

 

-         Robert Sisk Report on Benefits and the Budget – 04/02/09

 

-         Dues Paid By Unions in West Hartford

 

-         2009-10 The Budget In Brief

 

-         West Hartford School Information

1.     Graduation Rate

2.     Class Sizes

3.     Expenses Per Pupil

4.     Comparitive School Rankings (West Hartford and Neighboring Schools)

 

-         2009 Tax Estimator – from the Town website

-         2009-2010 Proposed Budget and Capital Improvement Proposals here.  Budget document is very large if you are planning to download it. Town Budget Information from the Town Website 

-         Town Manager presentation 2009-2010 Budget (PDF) 03/10/09 

-         West Hartford Budget Analysis for 2009-2010 budget – by Robert Sisk 02/04/09

-         Streaming video of February Budget Forum 02/04/09

-         West Hartford Budget Projections  - $380,672 budget deficit already projected for June 2009!

-         Some Thoughts on the Impact of The Interim Town Manager’s new salary.

-         Budget Analysis of CT Towns – by Bill Generous

-         Some Budget Facts vs. “what is being said”

-         Education Cost Sharing (ECS) shortfall memoWest Hartford HAS NOT BEEN getting its fair share from the state.

-         Interesting comments on director’s salaries and benefits which were posted by someone commenting on a Hartford Courant article on May 6 (see article below).

-         West Hartford Year End Metric from the Department of Employee Services  08/12/08

-         West Hartford School rankings based on schooldigger.com and test scores.

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-         Town Budget information archives from 2008

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