The Ledger is reading West Haven's budgets, audits and council records. Here is what the city's fiscal 2025 audited financial statements and its fiscal 2027 final budget show.
The council awarded three Poulter Pond contracts totaling $775,109.04 in August and, according to draft minutes, a $1,446,896.44 Windsor Park contract in October, after an August budget amendment corrected how Windsor Park was to be funded.
The council awarded three Poulter Pond contracts totaling $775,109.04 in August and, according to draft minutes, a $1,446,896.44 Windsor Park contract in October, after an August budget amendment corrected how Windsor Park was to be funded.
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The fiscal 2027 storm water budget expects $343,000 from the current $3 monthly fee and lists a $500,000 general fund transfer and $766,238 from reserves to balance it, though the listed sources add up to $289,000 more than the stated total. The city manager's summary says the fee must rise.
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The fiscal 2027 budget assumes a Walmart Supercenter opens in the last quarter of the fiscal year and splits its expected $225,000 in city sales tax between city operations and reimbursing developers for realigning Hunter Drive.
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The council voted in June to implement a 1998 ordinance taxing electricity and natural gas, which had never been applied. The state lists the 6% tax as effective Oct. 1, and the budget expects $905,250 from it this fiscal year.
