PLEASE JOIN US!
IT’S THE
YEAR OF THE TAXPAYER!!
Saturday,
November 10, 2007
FORUM ON
PROPERTY TAX REFORM & RELIEF
Sponsored by:
The Federation of Connecticut Taxpayer Organizations
Saturday, November 10, 2007
8 a.m. to 12 noon
Continental Breakfast – Donations Optional
Chatfield, 1 Chatfield Drive, West Hartford
Across from the West Farms Mall – Refer to
Directions Below
RSVP:
Susan Kniep, 841-8032 or fctopresident@aol.com
Speakers:
· State Representative Arthur O’Neill
Introduced Property Tax Cap Legislation HB05226
Website of Arthur O’Neill: http://www.housegop.ct.gov/members/oneill.asp
· Newspaper
Columnist Larry Cohen
Biography
Below-On Aug 15, 2007 his column captioned Tax-spend Dinosaur in the Sights
focused on FCTO’s attempt to provide transparency of
union contracts.
· Mike Guarco,
Co-Founder, Connecticut Municipal Consortium for Fiscal
Responsibility
The Federation
of Connecticut Taxpayer Organizations, Inc. is sponsoring a breakfast forum on
Property Tax Reform and Relief on Saturday, November 10, 2007 from 8 AM to 12
Noon at the Chatfield, 1 Chatfield
Drive, West Hartford,
across from the West Farms Mall. We
invite the public to join us. The event
is free and donations are optional.
Please RSVP to Susan Kniep at 860-841-8032 or fctopresident@aol.com. Our guest speakers will provide us with
insight into how we can obtain property tax relief in the 169 towns
throughout Connecticut. Taxpayer Groups will have an opportunity to
network and listen to the success and concerns of others.
Directions to Chatfield
Chatfield is easily reached from
I-84.
From the West, take I-84 East to Exit 40. Turn
left onto New Britain Avenue. Turn right onto Chatfield Drive. Chatfield’s entrance is
the first right.
From the East, take I-84 West to Exist 40.
Turn left onto Ridgewood
Rd. At the
light turn left onto New Britain
Avenue.
Chatfield is 200 ft ahead on the right.
Biography of Laurence Cohen
Laurence D. Cohen, a columnist
for the Hartford Courant, the Hartford Business Journal and the Waterbury
Republican-American is a Senior Fellow at the Yankee Institute for Public
Policy.
He is a former reporter, editor,
editorial writers and member of the Editorial Board at the Courant; has held
senior speechwriting positions at the Hartford Insurance Group and United
Technologies Corporation; and served as Special Assistant to former Connecticut
Gov. John Rowland.
He is a former President of the Connecticut Chapter of the Society of Professional
Journalists and former President of the Connecticut
Valley Chapter of the Public Relations
Society of America.
He is an adjunct instructor at
the University of Hartford and has also taught at the University of Connecticut,
Central Connecticut
State University,
and Albertus
Magnus College.
He is president of Cohen
Communications, Inc., a public affairs and public policy consulting firm in Glastonbury.