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...DeGuglielmo asked for $26.8 million in spending, more than $1.8 million more than the 1965 figure. Although the city cannot establish its tax rate until it recieves detailed information on state aid, an increase in the $72 real estate tax (per $1000 valuation) is expected...
...principle hurdle is higher taxes. "The Councillors are the ones who have to go to the people and justify the tax bill," DeGuglielmo said in an interview Monday. It was for this reason that he requested a definite list of priorities...
Monday, the new city manager made his first extended appearance before the Council, and almost immediately the budget and the City's hiring policy became points of controversy. Councillors Edward A. Crane '35 and Alfred E. Vellucci, both opponents of DeGuglielmo's appointment, exchanged heated words with the new manager...
...agitated DeGuglielmo replied: "I don't take revenge on kids . . . I take revenge on a man who kicks me when I'm down, stabs me in the back when I'm not looking." He said that it was unfair to discuss an individual in public and added that if the man were unsuited for work in the traffic department, he would be placed in another city...
Crane also attributed to DeGuglielmo a criticism of last year's reduction in the tax rate from $72.60 to $72. Although there is no explicit criticism of the reduction in the budget message. DeGuglielmo and some of the five councillors who supported him are known to believe that the reduction was unnecessary and that the city could have used the additional money...