“The Duanesburg Town Board won’t be trying to override the state’s two percent tax cap in 2020, Town Supervisor Roger Tidball said.
The board will hold a public hearing on the nearly $2.2 million town budget proposal at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Town Hall on Western Turnpike.
A public hearing on overriding the cap was also scheduled for Thursday’s Town Board meeting. But Tidball said that hearing has been cancelled because refinement of the budget numbers determined a tax increase could be kept modest enough to stay under the cap.
“When I was first doing my budget, it looked like we would be really close to the override, Tidball said. “But at the end of the day it came in under.”
The town tax rate is currently projected to rise from $92.59 per $1,000 assessed value to $95.12 per $1,000, meaning a home assessed at $100,000 would pay $2.53 more in taxes next year, Tidball said.”
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Williams, Stephen. Schenectady Gazette 31 October 2019.