Committee reviews Rutland charter bill H.504 that sets new taxes for fire and police equipment and revises procurement rules

Legislative counsel Tucker Anderson told the Ways & Means committee April 29 that H.504, a package of charter amendments for the City of Rutland, adds two recurring charter tax rates to fund fire and police equipment and makes technical and procurement-policy changes to the city charter.

Anderson told committee members, “You have in front of you the amendments to the Charter of the City of Rutland, H.504,” and described the measure as largely technical cleanup with two specific rate increases. “Taxes required for the replacement for fire equipment is being raised from 0.0175 to 0.0225 on the dollar of the grand list,” he said. He also said the bill establishes a new base tax of 0.018 on the dollar of the grand list for police equipment.

The amendments include a…