{"id":486,"date":"2009-01-12T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=486"},"modified":"2017-12-27T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T16:11:42","slug":"windsor-nh-returns-to-biennial-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2009\/01\/12\/windsor-nh-returns-to-biennial-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Windsor NH Returns to Biennial Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Ed Naile<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Always on the cutting edge of municipal finance, the tiny town of Windsor is still auditing its books from almost a decade of not doing so. Thank you DRA!<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLucky the budget for this town of 250 is only about $150,000.00, otherwise things could get sticky.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>The town won the distinction of making regional news last March on the front page of the Boston Globe for having a Board of Selectmen who did not tax friends and relatives.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThat problem has now reached its logical conclusion. No one has received a tax bill yet for 2008.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhy not lump two years together in a few weeks when Windsor holds its annual charity ball called Town Meeting and do away with that bad old year 2008 \u2013 2000 altogether.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHere is an idea, why not use the Mayan Calendar which has the world ending in 2012 as the official Windsor time piece and hope for the best.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMost Windsor residents are concerned &#8211; but not about the audit or town finances.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI think the question most on the mind of the average Windsor voter is: if hell froze over, could you drive out on it and ice fish?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ed Naile Always on the cutting edge of municipal finance, the tiny town of Windsor is still auditing its books from almost a decade of not doing so. Thank you DRA! \u00a0 Lucky the budget for this town of 250 is only about $150,000.00, otherwise things could get sticky. \u00a0 The town won the [&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":[5,50,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessing","category-taxes","category-town-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","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=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7128,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/7128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}