Ariel Zangla in The Daily Freeman reports that Greene County took in $26.66 million in sales tax in 2011, up $1.26 million from county forecasts, according to Greene County Treasurer Peter Markou. He said the county benefited from folks repairing damage from Hurricane Irene and buying things such as lumber and new appliances, and that vehicle sales were also strong locally. Read the full story in The Daily Freeman.
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Tags: budgets, Hurricane Irene, Peter Markou, sales tax, taxes
Allissa Kline of Buffalo Business reports that state and federal personal income tax returns are not due until April 17 this year. The traditional April 15 tax deadline falls on a Sunday this year, and the Monday is the observance of Emancipation Day in Washington, D.C., so taxes are due on Tue., Apr. 17. The holiday commemorates the day President Abraham Lincoln signed the legislation to free slaves in the nation’s capital. It has been a public holiday since 2005.
Tags: taxes
Congressional Republicans came around to local representative Chris Gibson’s way of thinking and extended the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. Previously, all House Republicans except the Kinderhook Republican and six others, voted against a similar proposal. Gibson, still, is unsatisfied with the measure:
“As the President and leaders of both parties in the House and Senate have previously stated, we need an agreement to extend the payroll tax [cut] for at least a year. In the House, I voted for a comprehensive bill that did just that and reformed and extended unemployment insurance while fixing the reimbursement rate for Medicare providers…. I was disappointed that the Senate chose a 60-day measure instead, but I believe it is the right course of action to enact this stop-gap measure to ensure hardworking American families do not see a tax increase on January 1.”
Tags: Chris Gibson, payroll tax cut, taxes, unemployment benefits
The Greenville Mountain View Pioneer (no website) tracks taxes and budgets each town in Greene County, and lists which raised or lowered next year’s budgets. Five towns — Ashland, Catskill, Durham, Greenville, and Halcott — exceeded the new two-percent state property tax cap next year. And, the unbylined story also notes, that while the county has been slashing its spending to meet budget restraints, spending rose in two departments: the Probation department added $34,845 in its personnel budget and new County Administrator’s office added $29,269 to its budget. The breakdown by towns:
• Ashland: 5.6 percent tax increase
• Athens: 1 percent increase
• Cairo: .3 percent decrease
• Catskill: 4.7 percent increase
• Coxsackie: 1.2 percent increase
• Durham: 4.8 percent increase
• Greenville: 2.8 percent increase
• Halcott: 5.6 percent increase
• Hunter: .9 percent decrease
• Jewett: 1.8 percent increase
• Lexington: .6 percent decrease
• New Baltimore: 1.2 percent increase
• Prattsville: 1.2 percent decrease
• Windham: 1.9 percent decrease
WGXC Town Recorder Sam Sebren reports from the Greene IDA public meeting about the proposed New Baltimore water park:
Close to 150 people attended a 4 hour long public presentation and question-and-answer session at the Catskill High school last night for the proposed Great Wolf Water Park to be situated near the thruway exit in New Baltimore. First there was a presentation given by the Greene Industrial Development Agency, which is coordinating the deal, and representatives from Great Wolf who will operate the park, and MAR Holdings, the developer of the project. What was unusual about this meeting was that all Greene County Legislators were in attendance and were given the chance to ask questions. After the legislators, the public asked questions. The $115 million dollar project, which requires a great deal of additional infrastructure and would be an enclosed, indoor resort with a 400-room hotel, is controversial for residents and business owners in the area and is strongly opposed by the Kerrigans, owners of Zoom Flume who recently built a million dollar addition to their outdoor water park in East Durham. The IDA has created a website, www.greenewaterpark.com with more information about the project.
Here is a clip of the public comment period. PLAY CLIP
Here is a clip of the Greene County legislators asking the IDA questions about the project. PLAY CLIP
Tune in at 9 a.m. Sat., Dec. 10, and WGXC will air some of the public comments on 90.7-FM.
Tags: business, Catskill High School, Great Wolf Resorts, taxes, water park, Zoom Flume
Rick Karlin of the Times-Union reports that lawmakers are planning to vote on the income tax overhaul bill. The overhaul is expected to generate $1.9 billion. For a look at how $108 million of it might be spent see the appropriations bill posted on Karlin’s “Capitol Confidential” blog. The bill includes money for flood recovery, jobs training and $1 million for foreclosure prevention. Read the full story in the Times-Union.
Tags: Andrew Cuomo, income tax, taxes
Thomas Kaplan in The New York Times reports that Gov. Andrew Cuomo may, after all, raise taxes on the wealthy to solve some of the state’s budget woes. So far, Cuomo has refused to renew a so-called “millionaire’s tax” but now he is reconsidering, in the face of a larger-than-expected budget deficit. State lawmakers may return to Albany as soon as Tuesday to consider budget remedies. Kaplan’s story in The New York Times says legislative leaders were considering creating new tax brackets, with higher tax rates for the state’s largest incomes. Read the full story in The New York Times.
Tags: budgets, millionaire's tax, taxes
Barbara Reina in the Register-Star reports that the Stuyvesant town board voted to raise taxes 18.8 percent in 2012, at a last-minute budget hearing and board meeting. Town Board members Edward Scott, Brian Chittenden, and Kelley Williams will give back their entire salaries to the town, though Town Councilman and Supervisor-Elect Ron Knott won’t. “I feel it sends the wrong message to the public,” he said. “None of us do this for the money.” Reina also writes, “[Current Town Supervisor Valerie] Bertram told the Register Star that the 18.8 percent tax increase is due to a 10 percent increase in health insurance, a 24 percent increase in town contributions for retirement, a salary increase to Highway at 2 percent, a $20,000 dollar bond anticipatory note to start work on the town salt shed project and ‘$40,000 to be split between Planning and Zoning for attorney fees in anticipated legal bills for next year.’” And Reina also writes this sentence, without explanation: “An on-duty police officer stood in the audience for the duration of the public hearing and budget vote.” Read the entire story in the Register-Star.
Tags: Brian Chittenden, Edward Scott, Kelley Williams, Ron Knott, taxes
The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance announced the extension of some tax filing and payment deadlines for affected taxpayers, tax preparers and relief workers in counties that were declared disaster emergencies by Governor Andrew Cuomo after Hurricane Irene. Visit the department’s website for a complete list of taxes that will be accepted later from anyone affected by the storm in Greene, Columbia, Albany, Delaware, Dutchess, Rensselaer, and Ulster counties. Phone calls may be directed as follows:
• Forms and Instructions: 518.457.5431
• Withholding Tax: 518.485.6654
• Miscellaneous Business Tax: 518.457.5735
Tags: Hurricane Irene, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, taxes
A story without a byline in The Greenville Mountain View Pioneer (the paper without a website) reports that the Town of Rensselaerville is considering raising taxes at budget workshops Oct. 25 and Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. at the Town Hall. “I am truly hoping we don’t have to vote to override the tax cap,” said Town Supervisor Marie Dermody in the story. The town will lose county sales tax revenue next year, since about 70 fewer people in the town then a decade ago, and the funds are based on census figures. In addition, Albany County’s proposed 2012 budget includes a 19.2 percent tax increase.
Tags: budgets, tax increase, taxes
Jim Planck in The Daily Mail reports that the Town of Catskill holds a public hearing on a proposed budget with a 1.91 percent tax increase at 6:15 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 31, at the town hall. “properties in the town are set to see a ten cent ($.10) increase in their tax rate, going from $5.44 per thousand to $5.54, which is a 1.91-percent increase,” Planck wrote. “Those within the village will see their town tax rate go up one cent ($.01), from $1.81 per thousand to $1.82, which is less than a one-percent increase (.75-percent).” Read the full story in The Daily Mail.
The “Statewide Caravan to Restore the American Promise,” protesting at various New York Congressmen’s offices to save “social safety net” programs, such as Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, from Federal cuts, comes to Kinderhook at 1 p.m. Thu., July 21, to protest in front of Rep. Chris Gibson’s office, 2 Hudson St. On Tuesday, July 19 Congressional Republicans, including Gibson, passed the “Cut, Cap, and Balance Plan” 234-190 which the activists believe would cut many of these social programs. Gibson disagrees. “Importantly, we make absolutely no changes to Medicare, Social Security, or Veterans Benefits in this bill, and leave open the option of significant cuts in defense spending in future years to bring our budget into balance,” he said in a statement.
Tags: budget cuts, Chris Gibson, taxes
The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance announced Wednesday that taxpayers will have until April 18 to file their 2010 personal income tax returns. The usual April 15 deadline was extended because of the Federal observance of the Emancipation Day holiday in Washington D.C. The Internal Revenue Service recently announced the extension of its deadline to the next business day, which is April 18, so New York is moving its due date too.
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The Associated Press has a piece, published this morning in the Times Union, that takes a look at how typical taxpayers will fare in 2011 with the tax laws, some of it extensions and other parts new, signed into law by President Obama this week. All show significant savings but, as yet, none have started taking on what the actual changes are year to year, and whether there will be actual savings compared to last year. For that we’ll probably just have to get a bit closer to April 15, 2011…
Kaz is selling their property and losing their tax break. Photo by Tom Roe.
Tags: Col. Cty. DSS, Columbia County Capital Resource Corporation, Columbia County IDA, taxes
Paul Crossman in The Chatham Courier reports voters in New Lebanon have for a second time rejected a proposal to renovate and expand the Town Hall, 191 no votes to 128 yes votes. At the first vote in late June, a similar measure was defeated 182 to 88, out of the 1,400 registered voters in New Lebanon, Crossman reports. “I was disappointed in the outcome because I thought we had the best deal for our residents to preserve a historic structure and to have a building we could be proud of,” said Supervisor Margaret Robertson. “In the next two years, New Lebanon is going to be booming and we wanted a Town Hall that could serve our needs.” The $724,100 project included no new taxes for residents.
The U.S. Senate voted today 83 to 15 to pass the the tax cut and spending package agreed to between President Obama and Congressional Republicans. New York’s senators split on the bill, with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, formerly of Hudson, voting against the plan, saying keeping low taxes for the wealthy will add too much to the national debt. Sen. Charles Schumer, took a different tact, voting for the bill but complaining as he did. “It is unfortunate that Republicans have dictated an ultimatum that we either provide tax breaks for millionaires or else jeopardize our fragile economic recovery,” Schumer said in a statement quoted in The Wall Street Journal. “These millionaire tax breaks have exploded the deficit without creating jobs. We cannot allow them to become permanent.” Though voting differently, their statements were similar. “Right now, we need to focus on the middle class, who are always left behind, not the people at the very top, who are doing just fine in this economy,” Gillibrand explained in a statement reported in The New York Times. Turns out, they may both be wrong. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has created this helpful graph to explain where the savings and spending in the plan are going.
From Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Earlier: Murphy favors tax cut and increased spending plan.
Tags: Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, taxes
Congressman Scott Murphy released this statement Thursday:
“If the tax cut compromise outlined by President Obama comes to the floor as currently proposed, I will support it. As with any compromise, there are provisions that I do not agree with, but I firmly believe that in this package the good outweighs the bad. This plan would help businesses create jobs and help middle class families by easing their tax burden. It also keeps in mind the massive deficit and debt that have been built up by the poor decisions of the last ten years. It is important that it is not a permanent extension that we can’t afford but rather a targeted deal that will help get the economy moving and keep our long term fiscal crisis in mind.”
Tags: Scott Murphy, taxes
In a sure-fire sign of changing demographics, and an acceptance that their community has shifted to newer residents in recent years, the Athens Town Council agreed to move ahead with putting a townwide tax revaluation out to bid byy a 3-2 this past Monday. Reflecting the close nature of their decision, however, they tabled a resolution stating the town’s intent to conduct a revaluation.
Revaluations – which can cost a projected $100,000 or so – reassess all of a municipality’s properties, both commercial and residential. While it doesn’t increase the overall taxes that are collected, it is designed to ensure each property is assessed properly, and makes sure each property owner pays their fair share of taxes. The idea is to equalize the rates of payment between longterm proerty owners and newcomers, many of whom claim what has long been termed an unofficial “welcome stranger” system of higher taxation for newer arrivals into our Upstate communities.
Palmateer, a Democrat, and Deputy Town Supervisor Gene Hatton and Councilman Robert Butler, both Republicans, voted in favor of getting bids, while Dinkelacker, a Democrat, and Councilwoman April Paluch, a Republican, voted against the bid. All decided to table the full reval commitment.
Tags: reval, revaluation, taxes, Welcome Stranger
The Columbia County Board of Supervisors meeting Wednesday evening was recorded by Victor Mendolia. It includes adoption of a budget with increase in Columbia County sales taxes. Click here to listen to an audio mp3 file of the board meeting and votes, or copy and paste the following url into your computer’s media player:
http://archive.free103point9.org/2010/12/ColCtyBdofSupemtg_120810.mp3
Before the vote, the Supervisors held a Public Hearing on the Proposed Columbia County budget. Click here to listen to an audio mp3 file of the public hearing, or copy and paste the following url into your computer’s media player:
http://archive.free103point9.org/2010/12/PublicHearingonProposedColCtybudget_120810.mp3
Martin Roby also recorded the meeting, and has excerpts broken down on his web page here.
Pledge.mp3 (1.6M)
public_comment_budget_2010_december.mp3 (21M)
resolution_flurry.mp3 (17M)
roll_call.mp3 (1.7M)
sales_tax_discusion.mp3 (43M)
Supervisor Elizabeth Young, R-Taghkanic, was absent from the meeting. Those who voted “yes” on the sales tax resolution included: Art Bassin, D-Ancram; Jeff Braley, R-Austerlitz; Richard Keaveney, R-Canaan; Jesse DeGroodt, D-Chatham; Robin Andrews, D-Claverack; Raymond Staats, D-Clermont; Reggie Crowley, R-Copake; Lynda Scheer, R-Gallatin; BOS Chairman Roy Brown, R-Germantown; Larry Andrews, R-Ghent; Ed Nabozny, I-Greenport; Art Baer, R-Hillsdale; John Musall, D-Hudson1; Bill Hallenbeck, R-Hudson3; William Hughes, D-Hudson4; Bart Delaney, R-Hudson5; Kevin McDonald, R-Livingston; Margaret Robertson, D-New Lebanon; Leo Pulcher, R-Stockport; Valerie Bertram, R-Stuyvesant. Voting “no” on the sales tax resolution was Pat Grattan, R-Kinderhook, and Ed Cross, D-Hudson2. Register-Star’s Francesca Olsen writes an article about the vote here.
Five supervisors voted “no” on the $5,579,000 Columbia County budget: Grattan, Crowley, Cross, McDonald, and Hughes. Supervisors who voted “yes” included: Bassin, Braley, Keaveney, DeGroodt, Robin Andrews, Staats, Scheer, Brown, Larry Andrews, Nabozny, Baer, Musall, Hallenbeck, Delaney, Robertson, Pulcher, and Bertram.
Tags: Board of Supervisors, Columbia County sales tax, taxes
Final Daily Freeman printed in Kingston
This YouTube video shows the final Daily Freeman newspaper printed in Kingston Dec. 6. They moved printing to Troy, eliminating 58 jobs and claiming to save the paper $500,000.
New Lebanon voter referendum Dec. 11
The Town of New Lebanon holds a voter referendum to grant the town authority to finance $435,000 for the construction and renovation of the Town Hall on Sat. Dec. 11, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Church of The Immaculate Conception, US Rt. 20, New Lebanon. All registered voters of New Lebanon are eligible to vote yes or no to grant the Town authority to finance the construction and renovation of the Town Hall. Register-Star has a story here on this election. Currently, the board rents space to hold meetings and other business.
Town meetings tonight
Columbia County Board of Supervisors’ Public Information Session on CRC proposed purchase of Wal-mart and move of County agencies to Greenport at 5 p.m. at Elks Lodge, Harry Howard Avenue
Columbia County Board of Supervisors’ Public Hearing on the County budget. 7 p.m. at 401 State St., Hudson.
Columbia County Board of Supervisors’ meeting to vote on the County budget. 7:30 p.m. at 401 State St., Hudson.
LaFarge Environmental Impact Statement Public Information meeting at 6 p.m. Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School auditorium, 2025 Route 9W, Ravena, NY.
Birthdays
Dec. 8 birthdays include James Thurber, Delmore Schwartz, and Sammy Davis, Jr.
Tags: elections, Lafarge, taxes, The Daily Freeman
Roberta Davis, from Columbia County Democrats website.
The Columbia County Democrats’ website is crowing that Roberta Davis has beaten Republican Deborah Simonsmeier, citing an unofficial count of absentee ballots:
Roberta Davis: 1,062
Deborah Simonsmeier: 671
“The margin is well ahead of the dozen or so votes she was behind on Election Night,” the Democrats’ website says, and would make her Columbia County’s Third County Coroner with Angelo Nero and George Davis M.D. Mrs. Davis ran on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines.
Murphy votes for tax cut
Outgoing Congressman Scott Murphy voted Thursday for a permanent extension of tax cuts that apply to every family’s first $250,000 of income. The tax cut passed the House of Representatives 234-188, and is expected to be filibustered by Republicans in the U.S. Senate. Republicans there want to extend the tax cuts to all incomes, while Democrats believe families with higher incomes then $250,000 should be taxed more to pay down the debt or stimulate the economy. Chris Gibson, who defeated Murphy in November and takes over the District 20 seat in January, is out of the country, and could not be reached about how he would have voted on the bill.
Slopes open this weekend
Windham Mountain starts their 50th anniversary season Saturday at 8 a.m., according to their Facebook page. “Last weekend’s snowmaking held up and Team Snow had the system charged up at midnight,” the site says. Windham opens with two lifts, three trails, two boxes, and three rails this weekend. Hunter Mountain’s website says “anticipated opening Sun. Dec. 5.”
Audio from Hudson special school board meeting Monday
WGXC’s Alan Skerrett and Joan Geitz attended the special Hudson board meeting Monday, and made an mp3 recording you can listen to by clicking here. Read several different accounts of the meeting here.
Birthdays
Dec. 3 birthdays include Octavia Hill, Jean-Luc Godard, and Bobby Allison.
Tags: Chris Gibson, Deborah Simonsmeier, education, Hudson schools, Hunter Mountain, Roberta Davis, Scott Murphy, skiing, snow, taxes, Windham Mountain, youth
Mike McCagg in ccScoop reports Greenport “Town Building Inspector John Florio and Planning Board Secretary Beth MacGiffert both told ccSCOOP this week that the lease contract has been signed and that Kohl’s will locate in the town.” Kohl’s officials had previously said they would not come to Greenport without the county Industrial Development Agency giving them a PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) break. From McCagg’s story:
Initially, a twenty-year PILOT had been requested, which limited property taxes on the store to $22,500 annually. When that was rejected, a fifteen-year PILOT was proposed which increased the property tax by 1.5 percent. That proposal was also rejected by the IDA, despite support of the Board of Supervisors. The yearly property tax on the store, without a PILOT, is estimated at $81,600. Read the entire story in ccScoop.
Tags: business, development, taxes
From William J. Kemble in The Daily Freeman:
The [Catskill] Town Board on Wednesday agreed to a $2.7 million assessment reduction for Home Depot that will keep the company’s property on state Route 23B valued at $6.28 million through 2012. The settlement was adopted during a Town Board meeting at which Supervisor Peter Markou said the case was one of several involving large commercial properties, causing potential legal costs to mount. “We have a whole bunch of certiorari cases on the books,” he said. “We’re trying to settle them rather than go to court because it’s too expensive to go to court.” Town Assessor Nancy McCoy reported in May that Home Depot had sought to have its 2009 assessment reduced from about $9 million to about $4 million. “I don’t know whether I’d call it a relief,” Markou said of Wednesday’s reduction agreement. “It kills me to do it, but fair-market value changes. You go to court and argue it, you might lose. We’ve spent a lot of money doing, and it seems to me to be the path … of least expense.” The resolution adopted by the Town Board on Wednesday states that a “settlement proposal resolving pending tax certiorari litigation was recommended by (town lawyer) Daniel G. Vincelette … (as) an expeditious and economic alternative to further litigation.”… Town Board members in May agreed to set the assessment on the Wal-Mart property on state Route 23A at $13.5 million, a $1.67 million reduction, covering 2010 through 2012. Other cases involving large commercial holdings in Catskill include:
• Holcim Cement Co. on U.S. Route 9W, from $10.1 million to $1.65 million in a 2008 challenge.
• Lowe’s on state Route 23A, from $7.1 million to $3.48 million in a 2008 challenge.
• Rite Aid, on state Route 23A, from $1.8 million to $500,000 in a 2009 challenge.
Tags: business, development, Nancy McCoy, Peter Markou, taxes
Marist College’s Bureau of Economic Research just released an “Economic Report of the Hudson Valley.” Some interesting facts: “During the two-year period ending in 2008, total migration into and out of Columbia County resulted in a net loss of 31 households and a $27.12 million increase in adjusted gross income (AGI)” and during that same time, “total migration into and out of Greene County resulted in a net gain of 247 households and $15.50 million in adjusted gross income (AGI).” Ulster and Sullivan were the only other Mid-Hudson counties with population gains from 2006-2008. H/T The Daily Freeman.
Tags: development, taxes
From Carole Osterink’s The Gossips of Rivertown:
Assessments–the actual assessments for 2009 and the tentative assessments for 2010, for all properties in Hudson as well as the rest of the county–are now available online, accessed from the Columbia County website. Starting today, May 11, Garth Slocum, assessor for the City of Hudson, will be available at the Central Firehouse, 77 North Seventh Street, to meet with people to discuss their assessments. He will be there every weekday except Wednesday up until Grievance Day on May 25. Today he’s not expected to be at the firehouse until 11. I have been told that henceforward he will be there from 9 to 12:30 and again from 2:30 to 5. No appointments are necessary.
Tags: taxes
In The Watershed Post, Julia Reischel has an excellent, long feature about Cathryn Platine and The Maetreum, a three-story former inn once known as Central House, is run by a non-profit called the Maetreum of Cybele, Magna Mater (MCMM). While the IRS recognizes the Palenville pagan enclave as a non-profit religion, the Town of Catskill wants the $12,627.35 in property tax on The Maetreum, and Platine is taking them to court. Reischel’s story can be boiled down to a few paragraphs:
“We’re not saying they’re not a religious organization,” [Catskill Town Assessor Nancy] McCoy says. “We’re saying the property’s use does not meet the requirement for full tax exemption.” To qualify, a religious group has to show that it is using the property primarily for religious purposes — and that’s where the Maetreum fails, she says. According to [Town lawyer, Daniel] Vincelette’s report, the Maetreum is really a gender-bending housing project: “The primary purpose of the property is residential, to house and shelter transgendered individuals,” it concludes. “I read through that document and felt strongly that they were not entitled to the exemption,” McCoy says. Platine doesn’t deny that before formally becoming the seat of the Maetreum’s faith, the inn was used as an emergency shelter for homeless transsexual women. (Platine herself is intersexed, and has been a transgender activist for decades.) But the inn ceased functioning as a shelter years ago, she says, and now only three people, all priestesses of Cybele, live there. Vincelette says that the Maetreum isn’t the only religious group to have its land taxed; last year, he says, the town put land owned by the Catholic church that wasn’t being used for religious purposes on the rolls as well. “Every single religious group in the town of the Catskill is being treated the same,” he says. “Unfortunately, I think there is a lot of anger on Cathryn’s part. I don’t think she fully understands the legal issues.” Read the entire story in The Watershed Post.
Check out that headline in The Register-Star by the usually smarter writer Francesca Olsen. If you read deep down in her story you see why the officials are stressing a future building purchase: they don’t want you to think about the tax increase they just passed. Five paragraphs in Olsen mentions “Local laws renewing an additional half-percent of mortgage tax and an additional $2 per $1,000 of additional transfer tax on real property were also enacted.” Finally, seven paragraphs in, Olsen quotes Rick Rielly, president of the Columbia-Greene Board of Realtors, saying, “These are taxes, any way you look at it.” Olsen doesn’t even dare to say who voted for the tax, only that, “The renewal of taxes passed, with Supervisor John Musall, D-Hudson 1, abstaining, Supervisor William Hughes, D-Hudson 4, voting no on the additional transfer tax, and Supervisor Ed Cross, D-Hudson 2, voting no on the renewal.” Cross voted no on both taxes.
UPDATE:
Here is who voted for the mortgage tax:
Ancram’s Thomas Dias; Canaan’s Richard Keaveney; Chatham’s Jesse DeGroodt; Claverack’s James Keegan; Clermont’s Raymond Staats; Copake’s Reginald Crowley; Gallatin’s Lynda Scheer; Germantown’s Roy Brown; Ghent’s Lawrence Andrews; Greenport’s John Rutkey Sr.; Hillsdale’s Arthur Baer; Hudson’s 4th Ward-William Hughes, 5th Ward -Bart Delaney; Kinderhook’s Douglas McGivney; Livingston’s Philip Williams; New Lebanon’s Margaret Robertson; Stockport’s Leo Pulcher; Stuyvesant’s Valerie Bertram; Taghkanic’s Elizabeth Young. The same group voted for the transfer tax, except for Hudson’s William Hughes, who voted against.
Tags: taxes
On The Air
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