“This is meant to address situations where towns are receiving services and have significantly lower (tax) rates than those with their own police forces. There is a significant cost for these services.”
“You will have significant variety up and down. You'll have towns with a low tax rate and low values matched up with towns with high values, but not necessarily high property-tax rates. . . . Where there is a clear ability to pay, with low rates, then those towns would be consequently impacted.”
“There's volatility to any revenue source, especially revenue sources that are new and changing because of an adjustment. The tax is performing well and has been meeting the needs of the state.”
