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noted at last week’s board meeting. While the state has not had to raise taxes for several yean, local governments have had to institute “tremendous” hikes in local taxes to fund new mandates and pick up bigger shares of the expense of programs formerly paid for by the state, he added. “The state could use the surplus to pick up a larger portion of educational costs,” Mr. Miller proposed.
“If they mandate all these programs and we have to raise our taxes and they don’t - that’s not fair,” he concluded.
The board directed assistant John McCarthy to draft a resolution for consideration at the October meeting.
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