NEW: Hopkins’ Revised Budget Increases Taxes 4%, Suspends Operations at Cranston Senior Center
Cranston Mayor Ken Hopkins announced on Monday that his administration will submit a revised municipal budget that limits the City’s tax levy increase to 4%, following the City Council’s rejection of the Mayor’s original budget proposal.
The new proposed budget level funds Cranston Public Schools and “suspends operations at the Cranston Senior Center,” which the Mayor said were “two difficult decisions [that] were necessary to keep the overall tax levy within 4%, but that he did not want to implement.”
The Senior Center has always been a source of town pride…