Tax-Cuts May Leave Parts of Falmouth in the Dark ; but Critics of the Money-Saving Proposal Say Safety Will Suffer If Some Street Lights Are Turned Off.
Portland Press Herald › June 04, 2010
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A battle over taxes is showing how a town's role to provide basic services can clash with a voter-driven mandate to control costs.
Stuck in the middle is Randy Davis, Falmouth's budget-purchasing director, who's in charge of a streetlight-reduction program that has targeted 174 of Falmouth's 614 streetlights.See the full content of this document
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Tax-Cuts May Leave Parts of Falmouth in the Dark ; but Critics of the Money-Saving Proposal Say Safety Will Suffer If Some Street Lights Are Turned Off.
The program, expected to save the town $20,000 a year, is a result of the 2010-11 budget, approved recently by the Town Council. The $34.9 million budget doesn't include a tax increase.
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