Dover City Council voted 8-1 to approve a budget draft for fiscal year 2026 on May 21, including a potential 10% rise in the cost of electricity.
No, not again. — Linda Sabo
There is a common denominator here! — Tracy Cameransi
You sure don’t see pay keeping pace, with 1% here, 2% here, 5% here, 7% here, 10% here. You now have 25% less for essentials. — Jeff Grzeszczak
What I would like to know is, where does all the money go? Downtown still looks dilapidated; there are homeless individuals and drug addicts roaming the streets; crime is ridiculous; and it’s supposed to be the state capital. — Tim Preuss
Not fiscally responsible, unless there’s a tax increase looming. — Doug Drummond
Councilman David Anderson is not the hero here for voting no. He was in favor of hiring two paid firefighters at the price of $125,000 per year, which would have placed a tax hike on the residents of Dover. So, he may have voted no on the increase of electric fees, but he was trying to raise our property taxes. All you have to do is listen to the audio of the meeting on the city website. With all the money the city is paying to the Downtown Dover Partnership in salaries and by giving it city-owned properties for free, it’s no wonder there is no wiggle room in the budget to save us taxpayers. — Ruth Hamilton
Let’s face the fact that the rich and powerful do not want people up to their standards because they will have no one to look down upon. For example, the mayor and Dover City Council members! We voted for the mayor and council to represent us, but it seems we don’t matter. They always do what they want, rarely asking us, the taxpayers, what we want. We don’t want to pay high electric fees or property taxes. There are other ways to find the money, I am sure. Cut the fat from somewhere like the $150,000 salaries you are paying for the Downtown Dover Partnership. — Chris White
