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Brookline debate over adopting inflation‑and‑population local tax cap fails to change wording
Summary
A petition to adopt an inflation‑and‑population local tax cap under RSA 32:5 prompted questions about population vs. attendance, timing and implementation; a motion to amend the petition to use attendance rather than population was defeated and the original warrant language stood.
Moderator read Article 11, a petition to adopt the provisions of RSA 32:5(b) and implement a local tax cap that would limit the amount to be raised by local taxes using CPI‑U Northeast and a population factor. Eric Power summarized that if the petition passes the new cap would replace the existing local tax cap and that the override threshold is now three‑fifths for changes in the law.
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