Reply By Scott Benjamin BROOKFIELD - - In response to the worst economy in decades, First Selectman Steve Dunn says he is "trying to get as low a tax increase as we can" for the fiscal year that starts in July, because "times are bad." Dunn, a third-term Democrat, related that he is "asking all of the [municipal] departments to come in with a zero increase on the operating side" – but acknowledged that there will be salary increases and, for example, the Police Department will have to purchase body cameras to conform with a new law. Subscribe The $71.5 million budget for the current fiscal year represents a 1.76 percent tax increase and a spending hike of 2.09 percent over the previous fiscal year.