• Municipal Programs & Services Supported by Property Taxes
• Town Metrics -- Examples of Services Delivered to Residents

Municipal Programs & Services Supported by Property Taxes
West Hartford provides a variety of municipal services to its residents, including:

• Public Safety Resources
  • Full-time Professional Police and Fire Departments
  • 24/7/365 Paramedic Services
  • Fire Hydrants and Streetlights throughout Town
  • Full-time Animal Control Services
• Public Works Services
  • Curbside Trash/Recycling Collection
  • Leaf Collection
  • Snow Removal
  • Street Sweeping
• Parks & Recreation (Leisure Services)
  • Elmwood Community Center
  • 2 Senior Centers
  • Outdoor Pools
  • Cornerstone Acquatics Indoor Pool - self supporting
  • Playgrounds
  • Skating Rink - self supporting
  • 2 Golf Courses (18 holes and 9 holes) - self supporting
  • Celebrate West Hartford - self supporting
• 3 Libraries
  • Year-round weekend hours
• Human Services Programs
  • Elderly Services & Geriatric Case Management
  • Dial-A-Ride Program for the Elderly & Disabled
  • Adult/Family Social Services for Economic, Physical or Psychosocial Hardships
• Cultural & Historic Activities
  • Noah Webster House
• Health & Environmental Services
  • Health District
• Probate Court
• Town-owned Cemeteries (self-sustaining)
• Sewers throughout 90% of Town

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Town Metrics -- Examples of Services Delivered to Residents

• Town Clerk's office
  • Processes nearly 15,000 documents per year: land records; birth, marriage and death certificates; absentee ballots; and public licenses/permits.
• Town Web site -- 2007
  • 400,000 unique visitors
  • 1,500,000 visits
  • 8.5 million separate page views
• Fires -- 2007
  • 100% of fires were attacked by firefighters within 5 minutes of dispatch
  • 100% of all fires were handled by 20 or fewer firefighters
• Police Department - 2006
  • Managed over 35,000 separate calls
  • Responded to over 2,700 traffic accidents
  • Emergency response -- arrival within 4 minutes of dispatch
• Public Works -- Fiscal Year 2007
  • 47,947 cubic yards of leaves collected
  • 61,719 bags of leaves collected
  • 24,023 tons of refuse collected
  • 6,390 ton of recycling collected
• Leisure Services -- 2007
  • 21,506 instructional program registrations
• Libraries -- 2006
  • 27,335 Registered Borrowers
  • 558,662 Unique Visitors
  • 427,516 Visits to Library Web site
  • 113,580 Reference Questions Answered
  • 233,505 Volumes in the Collection

• Click here for the originally proposed Town Budget
• Click here for the Town Web site

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