As school districts continue to grapple with soaring pension costs and an annual cap on the property-tax levy, the number of administrators earning $200,000 or more a year is expected to increase 5 percent in the 2013-14 school year, Gannett’s Albany Bureau reports. This year, 256 school administrators made $200,000… Read More →
Former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley paid off overdue property taxes on his home at 1347 Spring Valley Road in Yorktown, but he continues to fight a foreclosure action, The Journal News/lohud.com reports today. A foreclosure conference is scheduled for June 11 at Westchester County Court in White Plains. The U.S…. Read More →
With school budget votes and trustee elections coming on May 21, taxpayers have a lot to consider over the next few days. Whether you plan to vote yes or no, what are the biggest issues you’re weighing in your decision? You can choose more than one answer. What will affect… 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 →
A sequestration update released today by Democrats on the House Committee on Appropriations, including Rep. Nita Lowey of Harrison, said the negative impacts of the across-the-board cuts that began in March “are gradually coming into focus” and have a direct impact on almost all Americans. These are some of the… Read More →
The administration of County Executive Rob Astorino reacted with anger and disappointment to the latest rejection by the Department of Housing and Urban Development of the county’s analysis of zoning in Westchester municipalities. HUD must accept the analysis before it will release more than $17 million in community development grants… Read More →
Two Westchester legislative committees amended legislation from the 2009 fair housing settlement Monday to increase the size of buildings it would apply to and to clarify what types of disability income would be protected. The committees voted to send the legislation to the floor at the next meeting of the… Read More →
It took deceit on a grand scale for Greenwich builder Richard P. Harris to be selected by the Greenburgh Town Board for the WestHELP housing complex’s $25.7 million lease. Harris was unknown to the Westchester affordable housing world in November when he submitted a proposal with his purported partner, The… Read More →
Rockland and Westchester are among 17 counties statewide where the state will use U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funds to cover the 25 percent local match requirement of property buyout costs associated with tropical storms Irene and Lee in August and September 2011, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced today…. 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 →
