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What a disaster. missed deadlines (thats a HUGE HUGE red flag!) AND, the sleepy taxpayers arent worked up because they havent gotten the big tax bill. To make matters worse (for any meaningful reform), we just had a reval, so we'll have many really angry taxpayers who wont understand reval vs tax hike, and some who benefited from the reval will shrug. Also, those who have a mortgage may not see the change until their mortgage holder adds it into the bill but that should be pretty fast I would think.

As drummond just pointed out, scraping through this year with a max tax increase, raiding the savings almost dry, and some deeper cuts wont help the next year and beyond as the OPEB and other giveaways add up to unsustainable costs.

Yet according to the link above, the state isnt quite ready to intervene under the Fiscal Stability Act. Incredible!

This poor planning and over-promising will hurt the taxpayers and also the city workers as well. One more thought, the "blue cross for life" that cost wasnt always an extravagant benefit as I recall it was started way back when insurance was actually quite cheap, and it looks like no one wanted to be the one to take that away when the costs for health insurance spiraled.

And now Warwick has crumbling roads, schools, a savings sucked dry, max tax hikes every year going forward, and no chance to even catch up despite having a pretty robust and diverse tax base. Sad.