Tag: Harry Fisher
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What is Harry Fisher hiding?
Special Edition BET Republicans push through secret school budget cuts On October 21, on a party-line vote, Republicans on the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) pushed through budget guidelines for next year that include another cut to Greenwich Public Schools—and now they want to keep the guidelines hidden. Here’s what happened: 1: Republican BET members…
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RTM issues stunning rebuke of Camillo and Fisher for failure to plan
Alarm bells sounded because we’re flying blind into the future In a rare move, the Representative Town Meeting’s (RTM) Budget Overview Committee (BOC) delivered a unanimous rebuke last week of First Selectman Fred Camillo and Republican finance board Chair Harry Fisher for failing to produce a long-term capital plan for Greenwich. The statement said members are “alarmed at the…
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Defund, Delay, Deny: the BET Republican MO that’s costing Greenwich
Fisher and Tarkington hold Greenwich back Most residents don’t have time to sit through budget hearings or track every debate inside Town Hall. But when you look closely at the record of the Republicans running for re-election to the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET)—Chair Harry Fisher and Leslie Tarkington—the emerging picture is alarming. Their votes…