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General News: Changes Seen for Village Tax Assessor
November 14, 2007
Cornwall-on-Hudson mayor Joe Gross is discovering that the role of the village tax assessor is complicated and, as he negotiates the process in his first year in office, he is getting advice about how to change the system next year.
At Tuesday evening’s village board work session, Mayor Gross announced that he would not sit on this year’s assessment review board when it meets on November 20th, citing a conflict of interest with his role as the tax assessor.
Further, he told the board members that he would like to get a village staff person, like the clerk, to be the assessor beginning next year. Gross later explained that this move would provide “continuity and consistency and gets it out of the political arena.”
Gross also noted that any future assessor should have the proper training. “This has been a crash course for me,” he said.
Gross said that most of the village property assessments were adopted from the town’s rolls. But if a property owner had applied for a building permit, Gross said he raised their assessment by calculating a percentage (51.4%) of the stated cost of the work done.
Gross later realized that he couldn’t apply this approach unilaterally, particularly when the permits covered the installation of above-ground pools, fences, and signs, or the removal of underground oil tanks. He said he intends to make adjustments on the assessments of some of these properties.
“All of these technicalities are new to me,” he said, but he knows that the issue of tax assessments is a hot one and he wants to provide the best oversight that he can.
In addition to Susan Ostrander, Bill Fulton and Brigid Flynn, the mayor asked at least one member of the village board to join the committee to replace him and the board discussed its intention to appoint local resident Tom Peterson, who volunteered for the job.
Village residents who want to appeal the assessment of their property may file a formal complaint with the village on or before November 20. Grievance forms are available at village hall.
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A little inteligence and common sense would help .Remember, this property tax is an Ad Valororum tax (according to value), not cost or some stupid formula. Ed
posted by ed moulton on 11/15/07 at 5:51 PM
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A little intelligence and common sense are already at hand, otherwise there would be no improvement...
I would like to know, who decides the value? The contractor based on materials and labor? or the realtor who pushes the price through the roof for personal gain and to the detriment of the community? Grandma and Grandpa can't afford to live here anymore.(and, Ed, it's 'ad valorem'. look it up)There ought to be a formula otherwise it becomes 'whimsy' and 'who do you know'; diseases that are rampant in these here parts.
posted by kate benson on 11/15/07 at 11:41 PM
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