The state review board working with West Haven to get out of its current fiscal hole would consider pushing the city into Tier 4, which would give the state additional control, if West Haven doesn’t pass a revised budget by June 7, its chairman said Thursday.
Municipal Accountability Review Board Chairman Benjamin Barnes, secretary of the state Office of Policy and Management, said at a meeting in City Hall Friday morning that he will attend Tuesday night’s special meeting of the City Council to tell council members in person.
“It is my preference, my strong preference, that the city come together to solve its own problems,” he said. “But I am concerned” that if the city doesn’t pass a more realistic budget soon, “there will be no ability to continue to provide public services ... or that it will be murky how to do that.”