YONKERS—Facing a Saturday approval deadline, the City Council is due to vote tonight on a $991 million proposed budget that avoids layoffs and comes with a 0.9 percent tax rate increase. The council, which is required by City Charter to adopt a budget by June 1 every year, is scheduled… Read More →
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced this afternoon that he has reached monetary settlements with five more service stations for violating the state price gouging statute in the wake of Superstorm Sandy last fall. Two stations are in Suffolk County and three are in Westchester. Schneiderman’s office has an ongoing probe… 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 →
Former Sen. Nick Spano, a Republican from Yonkers, made the IRS’ 2012 fiscal year report on criminal investigations, which was released today. Spano, who was sentenced to a year and one day in prison for filing fraudulent tax returns, appears in the “Public Corruption” section on Page 15. A description… 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 →
Yonkers’ city and school expenditures are expected to increase 15.6 percent in the next four years, from $991 million to a total of $1.1 billion, according to the city’s Department of Finance’s Four-Year Financial Plan, which was released this week. (See below for the financial plan.) The projected deficits are… Read More →
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano announced today that the city is launching a Mayor’s Mobile Tax Office from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Coyne Park Community Center, 777 McLean Ave. Representatives from the city’s Office of Constituent Services and the Tax Department will be available to meet with residents and… Read More →
Sales tax collections for the first quarter of 2013 are up significantly in Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties compared to last year, according to data released today by the state Department of Taxation and Finance. Statewide, tax collections were $2.8 billion, 3.91 percent more than January through March 2012. The… Read More →
The state Legislature spent almost $100 million in the six-month period that ended last September, according to new expenditure data posted on SeeThroughNY. The biggest spenders were Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos of Nassau County, at $535,230 in the Senate and Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, D-Manhattan, in the Assembly at $438,247. This is what… Read More →
YONKERS—Mayor Mike Spano will present his proposed 2013-14 budget on April 15, his office announced Thursday. With the state’s fourth largest city facing an estimated $86 million budget deficit next year, Spano said it will be a “tough task” to plug the spending gap while continuing to provide services that… Read More →
