{"id":3581,"date":"2015-12-05T14:42:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T19:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2017-12-27T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T15:02:09","slug":"rochester-resets-the-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2015\/12\/05\/rochester-resets-the-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester Resets the Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Lou Archambault, Rochester NH<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers, think about this when you finally get your Rochester Tax Bill.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when we received the tax bill &#8220;before&#8221; elections. Then we began receiving them after the election. Now, to my great surprise, (not) we will receive our bill after they &#8220;unanimously&#8221; doled out a 3.75% pay raise to Rochester City Manager Patrick Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n<p>A raise of about $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the entire Rochester City Council felt he was a victim of Wage Stagnation?<br \/>\nThis sum should help with his self worth.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m fully aware the City Manager has to eat too!<\/p>\n<p>Can Merit Raises be far behind for for other city departments?<\/p>\n<p>A number of us realize the city operates under a Socialistic umbrella.<br \/>\nI ask you, is it time to realize Potentates don&#8217;t consider themselves part of the class of people they believe they rule over?<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned the amount the City Manager will now receive to a fairly new homeowner. He was speechless, other than to say, &#8220;doesn&#8217;t the city manager already make enough?&#8221;  I guess our entire City Council doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>It was also a nice touch to include the salary of the Dover City Manager, to make us feel we&#8217;re thrifty.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Santa Claus will deliver it on December 24th and be due in full, by the 31st. <\/p>\n<p>NEWS UPDATE: Reports are the Tax Bills will be going out on Friday Dec 11.<br \/>\nAlas, a two day cooling off period before offices reopen on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Rejoice All<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lou Archambault, Rochester NH Taxpayers, think about this when you finally get your Rochester Tax Bill. There was a time when we received the tax bill &#8220;before&#8221; elections. Then we began receiving them after the election. Now, to my great surprise, (not) we will receive our bill after they &#8220;unanimously&#8221; doled out a 3.75% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessing","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7097,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/7097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}