Politics & Government

Wallingford Sees Grand List Decrease

Town officials are anticipating a difficult budget season for the 2016-17 fiscal year.

Wallingford officials are anticipating a difficult budget season after the town’s overall taxable grand list in 2015 decreased by 1.47 percent, according to the Meriden Record-Journal.

Coupled with the uncertainty of what state aid the town will receive, Wallingford Mayor William W. Dickinson Jr. told the Record-Journal that at this point this budget season looks “more difficult than we’ve seen recently.”

The overall grand list in 2015 was $4,205,564,614 and decreased a total of $62,646,386, according to the Record-Journal.

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