Tax cap measure may be decided on tonight
A recommendation by the legal firm that represents the city likely will determine whether a tax cap question appears on the ballot this year or next. Real Roseberry, 78, a lifelong city resident, recently gathered more than three times the required signatures for a tax cap petition. But some councilors have doubts about the cap’s legality, citing a March ruling by a Merrimack County Superior Court judge that a proposed cap in Concord was unconstitutional because it violated the City Manager-City Council form of government. Somersworth has the same structure.