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Think of Gloucester City as a corporation providing services to the community—public safety, trash collection, maintenance of city-owned properties, and our water and sewerage department. Our Board of Directors are elected to make sure we get the best “bang for our buck”. Take a look at your latest tax bill, and you’ll find that local taxes now account for 57% of our total tax bill!

GUEST

Retired people on fixed incomes can no longer pay our public servants 3 or 4 times more money than we receive through Social Security and an average pension.

Many of our older homeowners are selling their houses to landlords who rent them to transit people. Our town is going from a once stable community into an unstable community.

Our population has dropped to 11,500 people from 15,000 just ten years ago when we had less employees than we have today. How could that be?

We elect our city officials to operate city departments in the most efficient and economical way possible. They must control our local taxes. If changes are not made soon, the biggest business in Gloucester will be “U Haul It”.

Robert S. Bevan

Former Mayor of the City of Gloucester City