Contact Berlin Property Owners Association to attend first meeting

The Berlin Property Owners Association is a small group of property owners in Berlin, Connecticut; however, we continue to add numbers of people who wish to attend our first meeting. We are attempting to form a citizens' property owners association with a mission of controlling property taxes in Berlin.

Some of us operate small businesses in Berlin. Virtually all of us are homeowners in Berlin. But we are all concerned about the prospect of significant increases in property taxes in the very near future, and we wish to meet and discuss if we can constructively contribute to the annual budget discussions and assist in controlling the Town of Berlin government's spending.

We are a nonpartisan organization and will operate entirely under democratic principles. Consequently, there are no officers, no bylaws, no formal goals set yet since we have not yet held our first meeting. We wish to include all interested citizens in the formal organization of our association.

Recently seventy-five Berlin coaches have expressed concerns and fears of reprisals. We suspect that their fears may not be groundless. Similarly some small business individuals in our association have expressed fears of reprisals--that adversely could affect their livelihoods--resulting from us publicly disclosing their interest in our association since we are still relatively small in numbers at this time. Out of respect to all citizens, we are not disclosing the identity of individuals interested in attending our first meeting. We respect their concerns and fears of reprisal as well as their concerns for privacy and confidentiality.

Furthermore, we wish to extend to them the courtesy and respect of deciding whether to make the membership of the association public or private.  If ultimately members of our association decide to keep our membership roll private, then a public spokesperson or spokespeople can be elected to represent the association on its behalf.

To those people who are reticent about attending the first meeting of the BPOA without knowing in advance the identity of its organizers, we say that you will have the opportunity to meet and know all involved citizens at the first publicly announced meeting.  Please be assured that we are your neighbors, good citizens, and Berlin taxpayers, who simply wish to address our concerns about the ever rising property taxes in Berlin, Connecticut.

If you would like to be notified of the date, time, and place of our first meeting, please send us an email of your desire to attend.  Or contact us via Facebook  or our Webpage.

We thank you for being concerned citizens of Berlin, Connecticut.

Sincerely,

Berlin Property Owners Association (BPOA)

berlinctpropertyownersassn@gmail.com