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MIA Councillor was at large on final budget approval vote night
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Quincy City Council meeting approval of record-setting budget spending increase not steamed live by QATV.

WTQ?

Then again, no one would know it care of the lack of online news updates of the Southshore broadsheet and Quincy weekly as they have not covered it, much less care of the streaming video library of Quincy Access Television.

In any event, earlier this week the City of Quincy City Council approved the latest koched-up city budget for fast approaching Fiscal Year 2023 with only but one councillor having the stones to vote against it.

No raises for us!
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Then again, the apparent failure of Quincy Access Television to video Monday’s council meeting surely had nothing to do with the President of the City Council stumbling onto his sword and so then concurrently withdraw his unilateral as well as not duly shared in advance of the publication of the Mayor’s budget plans to provide himself as well as other council members a roughly 25% raise during a City Council Finance Committee meeting last week.

The reason for the withdrawal: the rest of the council voted to decline the raise.

Unclear, however, is if the decline was done as a manner of penance by councillors for otherwise rubber-stamping Mayor Tommy “Tax and Spend” Koch’s stupifying twenty-seven million dollar spending increase.

Regardless, the comments posted to the Southshore broadsheet coverage on Boner’s boner that failed to give rise to a raise were brutal, especially those posted by a well-known local gadfly were yet again pisser.

The La Kocha Nostra’s happy dance!
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Not only will the free-spending mayor’s Fiscal Year 2023 spending increase set a new dollar amount record, but also the three hundred and seventy-three million dollar budget itself will set a new record.

Further, while hard to tell given the most minimal of actually useful information provided via the mayor’s budget book, a bock which was even more stuffed with empty calories than him after a long lunch at Gennaro’s without leaving behind anything for a doggy bag of leftovers per the usual couple more meals when dining at Gennaro’s, the mayor plans to add roughly twenty new employees or thereabouts. 

Certain DPW workers doing what they are known for doing …
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Unclear, however, is how many are full-time and how many are part-time gigs.

Then again, as neither sort of city job tend to entail any heavy-lifting, the only real concern is how much will the new hires be paid,

Also, WTQ knew that Quincy Mayor Tom Koch still had friends and relatives who were still in need of a job?

Then again, who only knows how many idiot sons-in-law need gigs, not to mention that Mayor Koch has been in office so long that another generation of koched-up hires are coming on stream.

“We’re in the money!” An old Columbia Pictures image

In any event, on a percentage basis, the budget spending increase is currently set to be 7.7%; however, the quants on the Quarry’s financial and other affairs desk suspect that the final number will blow past 8% by the time that final supplemental appropriations are sought and then approved to cover the nut on pending new union contracts and other only to be other spending overruns.

Conversely, many Massachusetts municipalities are planning smaller to considerably smaller spending increases.

Quincy Quarry follows the money
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Even so, Mayor Koch will be increasing local spending by almost twice as Weymouth is planning and roughly 50% more than Boston and Braintree.

For example, Braintree District 2 Town Councilor Joseph Reynolds, who heads Braintree’s Ways and Means Committee, said the committee conducted an in-depth review of the proposed FY 2023 Braintree budget and found that Braintree’s revenue is not keeping pace with increasing operating and personnel costs. 

In other words, Braintree faces what is technically known as a structural deficit.

A fed-up Quincy taxpayer
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Quincy, however, should be so lucky as to only have as bad a structural deficit problem as Braintree’s as Quincy Mayor Koch continues to spend as might a sailor on shore leave after at least a couple of years at sea.

While too early to say with any degree of confidence, while impending New Growth tax income is expected in 2023, recent as well as continuing to be considerable market value increases of local residential property will all but assuredly continue to shift the incidence of the local property tax burden onto local homeowners and so lessen the relative tax whacks imposed upon large apartment complex and commercial property owners.

In short, Quincy homeowners, fasten your seatbelts for what is looking to be a very bumpy ride come 2023.

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