Laconia Tax Rate Released

[John Mercier]

Originally Posted by Woodsy

The county budget is going to impact all of Belknap County.... Laconia's tax increases are tied to poor decisions....

Decisions like the Colonial Theater rehab... then the City sold the condos to Rusty McClear for a song.... (did not go out for bid) who in turn sold 3 of them to Mayor Hosmer for ZERO profit! Lets not forget the backdoor deal to give up 18 downtown parking spaces to make this all happen! The family that owns Fit Focus (The old parking garage is their roof) also had handshake deals to buy some of the Colonial condos...

Next up for us Laconia taxpayers is that boondoggle of the parking garage! The City Council & Mayor Hosmer want to bump 6M+ into rehabbing a poorly built 45 year old building that buy another 20 years of functionality! The better option would be to spend the $10M and build a new garage that we can get 35-40 years out of!

Woodsy

But you would need to also solve the old parking garage problem... so that is additional costs for demolition and rehab.