Bristol begins budget talks by considering 2.9 percent property tax increase
An increase in student enrollment, a bump in pension costs and a loss in state aid will likely result in bigger tax bills for Bristol residents. This week, the Bristol Town Council began its review of the town’s $47,872,964 budget for fiscal year 2014. Prior to meeting face-to-face with each department head to review budget [...]
Read More →Councilors: Proposed BCWA rate hike feels rushed
The holiday season might not be the best time for holding public hearings and voting on rate hikes. That’s some how some local officials feel anyway, including a few of those on hand for a meeting of the Barrington, Bristol and Warren Town Councils Wednesday night. The majority of the meeting focused on a presentation [...]
Read More →Barrington, Warren and Bristol Town Councils meet with BCWA tonight
The Barrington, Warren and Bristol Town Councils will meet tonight at 7 p.m. The evening will kick off with a presentation from Bristol County Water Authority officials that is scheduled to include information on the agency’s strategic plan, finance plan and a potential rate hike for next year. The agenda also includes a discussion on [...]
Read More →Experience reigns as Republicans chosen to lead Bristol council
In its first order of business at the twenty first re-organizational meeting held on Wednesday, Dec. 5, the newly elected Bristol town council elected incumbent Republicans, Mary Parella and Halsey Herreshoff, to lead the Democrat dominated council as its chairwoman and vice chairman. Ms. Parella’s nomination came from Timothy Sweeney, a first term councilman. That [...]
Read More →Parella, Herreshoff, Calouro and Stuart win Bristol council seats
Incumbent Republicans Mary Parella and Halsey Herreshoff easily won two seats on the Bristol Town Council, and it appears they will be joined by three newcomers, all Democrats, pending absentee ballots. Nathan Calouro and Edward Stuart Jr. finished third and fourth, respectively, in the race for five council seats, while Timothy Sweeney has a narrow [...]
Read More →Bristol first in, first out of wind consortium
The Town of Bristol is no longer part of the East Bay Energy Consortium. That decision was made at the Oct. 10 Bristol Town Council meeting, with three councilors voting to pull away from the group. Town council Chairman Kenneth Marshall, who takes credit for initiating the consortium as a collaborative way for municipalities to [...]
Read More →Bristol harbormaster to leave post
By Dec. 1, Bristol will have a new harbormaster. In a letter to Bristol Town Council Chairman Kenneth Marshall, Harbormaster Joseph Cabral submitted his resignation, “with regret,” from a post he has held for decades. “After 40 years of service to the town which I love so dearly, I feel that it is time to [...]
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