We received great news this week concerning the contract to develop parcels A and B as a mixed use downtown project. When combined with the Parcel C project, we have the potential to achieve significant progress in expanding the grand list. Notwithstanding this great...

There has been controversy surrounding the decision to maintain Hop Brook Golf Course as a municipal golf course. Budget critics claim that the golf course should be privatized or at a minimum become revenue neutral. Proponents of the golf course recognize that Naugatu...

Everyone wants to pay less taxes. 

Tax relief is also the primary goal of all candidates for political office in Naugatuck.  It is very easy for a candidate to attract voters by promising tax relief by way of budget cuts through the referendum process.  At least one can...

     One of my most memorable cases as a litigator working for the Borough of Naugatuck began in 1997 when the Naugatuck voters passed four separate charter amendments one of which made the Mayor a voting member of the Board of Education.  This proposed charter amendme...

          As special legal counsel to Regional School District No. 16 since the mid 1970’s, I personally witnessed the dramatic increase in real property values in both towns after construction of a new high school in Beacon Falls.  Region 16 consists of the towns of P...