Friday, April 26, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
MASSENA -- The village board will hold an April 4 public hearing at 5:30 for a tax cap override. The village needs to pass a local law if their 2017-18 budget exceeds the state-mandated tax cap. …
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MASSENA -- The village board will hold an April 4 public hearing at 5:30 for a tax cap override.
The village needs to pass a local law if their 2017-18 budget exceeds the state-mandated tax cap.
Village officials said they wouldn’t necessarily exceed the cap.
“This is a formality, should the need occur. This is not to say we’re going over,” Deputy Mayor Matt Lebire said.
“We have to establish as a public hearing, we’ll leave that hearing open and as we move through our budget process if we don’t use it we’ll be okay,” Mayor Tim Currier said. “The goal is to keep it below.”
Currier said the state imposes a 2 percent tax cap, but it isn’t actually 2 percent. The village’s for 2017-18 is 1.3 percent.
He said the New York Conference of Mayors is pushing the state to impose a true 2 percent cap.
“NYCOM has been pushing NYS, lobbying them to make this an actual 2 percent tax cap, the same way the state goes with theirs,” Currier said at Tuesday’s Board of Trustees meeting.
