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Groton’s Burning Question Of The Week: Should Groton Long Point And The City Get Budget Increases?
The subdivisions have asked for sizeable increases to support road paving and their police departments.
Groton Long Point and Groton City are seeking of their police departments.
Groton Long Point has asked for about $746,000, a budget increase of about $380,000, or 103 percent over current year's spending.
The city has asked for $5.48 million, a budget increase of about $1.2 million, or 28.6 percent. Both increases are driven mainly by the cost of paving.
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Robert Congdon, president of the Groton Long Point Association, Inc, said the subdivision didn’t pave a road last year and needs to do so now. He added that it would cost Groton more to provide police protection to the neighborhood than to support the subdivision’s police department.
What do you think?
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Should the Town Council and Representative Town Meeting support the subdivision requests?
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