All five school districts whose budgets failed in the first vote last month got approval from voters yesterday. Mount Vernon’s school budget, which was too close to call last night, was approved by a margin of 20 votes, the district announced on its Facebook page. The vote was 862-842. The… Read More →
Five local school districts are holding second votes today on their 2013-14 school budgets—Briarcliff Manor, East Ramapo, Elmsford, Mount Vernon and Scarsdale. The districts’ May 21 budget votes were not successful. If their budgets aren’t approved, the state requires that the districts freeze their tax levy at this year’s amount…. Read More →
Nearly 96 percent of school budgets across the state were adopted yesterday, according to an analysis by the New York State School Boards Association. Districts that were not proposing property tax cap overrides had a 98 percent passage rate, while those that did want to spend above the 2 percent… Read More →
Local residents can find out in person in the next few months if any of the $12 billion in unclaimed funds state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s is holding belongs to them. The office has $196 million in funds that belong to Westchester County residents. Unclaimed funds are money or the rights… Read More →
Ninety-three percent of school board members who participated in an informal online poll said they are optimistic their budgets will pass on May 21, the first budget vote, according to the New York State School Boards Association. Seven percent said they didn’t think they would get approval on the first… Read More →
Just 4 percent of school districts are seeking to override the state’s property-tax cap this year, Gannett’s Albany Bureau reports. Twenty-eight of the 669 districts that filed their budget proposals with the state Department of Education said they would ask voters on May 21 to approve spending more than would… Read More →
Twenty-five state lawmakers are getting bigger stipends in addition to their base pay than they made last year, while seven are making less and the rest of the 213 legislators are earning the same salary as they did last year, according to a review of salary records by Gannett’s Albany… Read More →
A for-profit affordable-housing developer from Larchmont today upped his bid to win the lease for Westchester County’s WestHELP apartments, which Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner says the town intends to rent. In a letter to Feiner, which was obtained by Tax Watch, Dale Kauftiel, principal of HarborView Properties of Larchmont… Read More →
The panel for Wednesday’s discussion in New Rochelle on revaluation will provide a glimpse into several perspectives on the issue of tax fairness in Westchester County. The discussion, to be held Wednesday at 7 p.m. at New Rochelle City Hall, comes as the town of Greenburgh and city of… Read More →
The League of Women Voters of Westchester and League of Women Voters of New Rochelle are sponsoring a forum on updating property-tax assessments at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the City Hall Council Chamber, 515 North Ave., New Rochelle. The program—“Reassessing Property in Westchester: Fair or Foul?—will address questions such as… Read More →
