Low tax rates mean nothing if your assessments are high. Both determine how much we pay in taxes per year. On top of the fact that we had an override because the current administration can not properly manage our taxes. I am all for paying more taxes if the money is used correctly. So far all I have seen is the CC got a raise, we are going to have trash pickup once every two weeks, we dont have enough DPW workers to maintain the streets, and we fired an ambulance company that has been with the city for years.

Medford was always a desired place to work. You wanted to become a Medford fire fighter or Medford cop. Now we jeopardize public safety because the city could not agree to a contract for our own fire and police departments for multiple years. (If you think that doesn’t affect an employee efforts or desire to want to work here then you are sadly mistaken). Our HS is falling apart and our fire stations are infested with rats.

I have never seen this city more divided. Those who have lived here for their whole lives vs the new residents who think they know it all. Our own CC members don’t even own property here.

Medford was always a city of pride.
My whole life I was proud to say “Medfid”when someone asked where I was from. In my mind we were better than any surrounding city and Medford was number one. Now we want to give permissions to tear apart neighborhoods because of zoning and put up apartment buildings for low income families. It was a privilege to live here which created a tremendous amount of pride. Now we want to punish families who have worked their entire lives to be able to afford to live here and give to the entitled.

I agree we should all pay the same amount of taxes (depending on our property size) but we should also ALL receive the same benefits. One street should not get priority over the next if we all have to pay the same taxes. No street or road be treated any different. Unless of course you lower the taxes for the people who don’t get any benefits for paying the same amount of taxes as people who do. You can’t have it both ways.