After not attending tonight's Selectmen's meeting, Esty showed up after the meeting to announce she will withdraw her papers at the town's clerk's office for re-election.
Selectman Ginger Esty will not seek re-election to the Framingham Board of Selctmen. She did not attend Tuesday night's meeting. After the meeting adjourned, she showed up with a boot on one of her feet and told her fellow Selectmen she plans to withdraw her nominations papers for re-election at the Framingham Town Clerk's office tomorrow. Esty has been a selectmen for a dozen years. Esty and Sisitsky were running for re-election and were being challenged for one of the two seats available by School Committee member Mike Bower. Bower and Sisitsky are now running unopposed for the April 9 election. There are two, 3-year seats available.
The average bill will increase less than $9 for 2013, while shifting less of the tax burden to commercial and industrial properties will move that tax rate below $40.
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- Keith Regan
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
A divided Framingham Board of Selectmen voted to approve a split tax rate for 2013 that results in a modest increase in residential tax bills and shifts less of the tax burden onto commercial property owners than in past years. By a vote of 3 to 2, Selectmen approved a 2013 residential tax rate of $17.84 per thousand dollars of valuation and a commercial rate of $39.98. The average single family home, valued at $324,152, will see a tax bill of $5,782.87, an increase of $8.92. If a full shift of 1.75 percent had been approved, as in past years, the average single family home tax bill would have dropped by just under $14. Instead, Selectmen adopted a 1.74 percent shift. Selectman Jason Smith called the smaller shift "an investment in …
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Herb Chasan
4:15 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012
The town is limited by Prop. 2 1/2 in what it can raise from property taxes. The town does live within those revenues except when an override is requested for an exceptional expense such as remodeling the high school. more ›