Chip Elitzer lives in Great Barrington. He is Director of M&A for the Environmental Financial Consulting Group and Treasurer of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He holds a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton.
This disparity, unless addressed effectively, is likely to doom a merger vote at future GB and Sheffield town meetings, and to reprise a defeat for a new (or highly renovated) high school at a future GB town meeting.
The most effective way to reduce property tax rates (or at least to restrain their growth) in Great Barrington would be to welcome the building of more second homes, more expensive homes, and more commercial property.
No amount of infrastructure spending will be sufficient to compete with China. The “American Century” will end as Chinese hegemony becomes established.
