From Aberdeen Communities Together:
The upcoming meeting of Aberdeen Communities Together will be held at the Aberdeen Senior Center, 7 Franklin Street, (across from Festival Park) this Friday evening, May 21, 2010 at 7 PM.
If you missed the meeting last Sunday, May 16, 2010, you missed the presentation of the current plans for the development of Aberdeen Technology Campus (just beyond the H.E.A.T. Center on State Route 22) and we will have that information along with the other usual committee updates.
Please come and tell us how you feel about the City of Aberdeen again increasing City resident’s property taxes about 5-6% (depending on the last state property assessment) by leaving the Property Tax Rate per hundred the same! Net gain to the City and out of the resident’s pockets is about $ 235,000±.
That’s incredible! Exactly what more are we going to get for this increase in terms of services? Absolutely nothing.
Lazy Man- First of all ACT is trying to confuse people who don’t know the difference between the constant yield and a tax increase.
More inportantly, taxes in Aberdeen will continue to over burden the residents as long as they allow groups like ACT, Red Shirts, NEW NEW NEW Dem Club, and their non resident like to control the City Council and maintain their no growth policy. Aberdeen is bounded on three sides now; Beach Tree development to west, APG to the south, and Havre De Grace to the east.
Even though the Wetlands annexation was stopped by referendum a few years ago ther is nothing stopping the county from providing the infrastructure and allowing the very same development. This would not only rob Aberdeen from recieveing their taxes (as in the Beechtree development) it would close the noose around the city and prevent any further growth.
After that, as the cost for services like DPW and the police continue to rise and the city has been stopped from gaining from the economy of scale, there will only be two choices. 1. unincorporate the city and become part of the county. 2. Continue to raise taxes.