12 months ago
PITTSFIELD (NEWS CENTER) -- One town in central Maine is preparing two budgets for the next fiscal year. In addition to its regular budget, Pittsfield is also working on a backup budget. That backup budget will address the almost four hundred thousand dollars in tax revenue the town would lose if voters pass Question 2 on the November ballot. That referendum question asks whether excise taxes on motor vehicles should be cut in half. Town Manager Kathryn Ruth says the town is already operating under a bare-bones budget. "We can't anticipate or even imagine it," Ruth told NEWS CENTER. "This year because of dwindling revenue sources the town has been on an unofficial budget freeze since March, and a formal budget freeze since August 2009." Chris Cinquemani of More Green Now, the campaign to get Question 2 passed, says the excise tax cuts will create much-needed tax relief for the state, and force politicians to prioritize how they are spending tax dollars.
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