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Crunching the numbers!
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The week past was pretty much paint drying time.

Why so? 

Not all that much breaking badly bad news© in Quincy.

Relative quietude notwithstanding, Quincy Quarry News’ quants for the second year in a row have been burning midnight oil while running the paucity of numbers provided by the Koch Maladministration so as to endeavor to project what local homeowners should expect in the way of property tax bill increases come Calendar Year 2025.

The Koch Machine knowing or not knowing how much 2025 property tax bill will increase, natives are restless either way.
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In turn, it is expected that the Quarry’s quaints will roll out their prognostications as well as the key assumptions behind them.

Conversely, so what for the fact that the Koch Machine should have known last spring how hard it is going to whack homeowners come the start of 2025 or at least should have known.

Last year Quincy Quarry’s quants projected four months before property tax rate increases were officially set that the average single family residential property tax bill would increase by somewhere between 7.7% and 8.8% in Calendar Year 2024.

Why so much, especially when compared to other communities? 

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A duly calculated actual 10% spending increase for Fiscal Year 2024 by the all but invariably free spending with taxpayers’ hard earned money Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch.

In turn, the final number: an average 8.5% property tax increase was the case for this year and thus on the high side of Quincy Quarry’s predicted range.

That and around half again more than most other Massachusetts communities imposed in 2024.

Accordingly, Quincy Quarry News’is to again warn its ever-growing legions of loyal readers what to expect roughly three months before City Hall sticks it to local homeowners when it sets the 2025 property tax rates. 

And as for news of the week just past in Quincy, first up was Quincy Quarry News running an exposé on how all manner of streets have been undergoing reconstruction during the warm time of the year this year and most especially almost all important local roadways and so greatly slowing local traffic.

Gotta love Quincy potholes …
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This exposé also noted that all manner of other local streets still are overdue — if not long overdue — renovation.

On a bright note, Quincy Quarry News ran a feature on how Wednesday past was National Cheeseburger Day and thus surely is a manner of high holy day in Quincy’s City Hall.

In short, as well as always, only in Quincy© …

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