{"id":227,"date":"2009-03-31T16:16:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T20:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westford.com\/lwv\/?page_id=227"},"modified":"2009-03-31T16:16:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T20:16:49","slug":"town-budget-process-position-1990","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lwv.westford.org\/?page_id=227","title":{"rendered":"Town Budget Process Position &#8211; 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The League of Women voters of Westford supports a local budget process that includes the continuous and ongoing exploration and use of ways to provide Westford\u2019s essential public services.\u00a0 The League supports the investigation of options, which include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Annual evaluation of justification of department requests\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Classification (different tax burdens on different types of property)<\/li>\n<li>Property-tax deferrals for low-income residents<\/li>\n<li>Additional sources of revenue, e.g., fees, local option taxes, and mechanisms built into Proposition\u00a0 2 1\/2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>The League supports a process involving the cooperation of various town departments in planning for both current budget needs and long-range financial requirements. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The League supports consistent reporting of annual budget appropriations and expenditures in a central location.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The League of Women voters of Westford supports a local budget process that includes the continuous and ongoing exploration and use of ways to provide Westford\u2019s essential public services.\u00a0 The <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/lwv.westford.org\/?page_id=227\">&#8230; Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-227","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwv.westford.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwv.westford.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwv.westford.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwv.westford.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwv.westford.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lwv.westford.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/lwv.westford.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions\/229"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwv.westford.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwv.westford.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}