In the short term, I worked with the Mayor and her team to use existing city authority to pass balanced budgets. That means we ended the year over year 5-10% regressive-property tax hikes we all became accustomed to under the previous Mayor. When needed, we raised revenue from the least-regressive sources we could with the legal authority the city currently has. Our approach has been rooted in using every tool in the tool box to tax those who can most afford to pay and give working people a break.

In the long term, the Mayor’s tax fairness advisory group convened and has started introducing proposals that would raise taxes on those most able to pay. Many of these proposals require new city-authority and will therefore need to be approved by voters, the state legislature, and the Governor before we can implement them.