On the puny tax income the Town Board receives it's a miracle they do as much as they do. I think property taxes should be raised to something a bit more realistic, with those who simply can't pay adequately protected of course. The property taxes I pay on my house in England, much smaller than the one I have here, are almost 100 times what they are here. I think most people wouldn't object if they were raised to maybe fivefold.

Then of course they need to be actually collected! So that the Town Board had some income to deal with the many o/s issues.