General News: Tax Assessor Reappointed
September 11, 2007
Cornwall’s tax assessor Ronald Fiorentino won reappointment to a second six-year term following a 4-to-1 vote by the town board Monday night. Town board member Al Mazzocca says that he voted against the reappointment because he thought the board should wait until after the first of the year to let the new supervisor have a say in the decision.
Fiorentino, whose reassessment of certain properties has raised the ire of home and business owners in Cornwall, won the support of the board after a closed-door performance review by the board.
Prior to the review, Cornwall town supervisor Dick Randazzo told a member of the public who questioned Fiorentino’s performance that the assessor is doing the job he is supposed to do. “He is following the plan that is on file and accepted by the state of New York,” Randazzo said, “that’s all I can tell you.”
Scott Strine, a Cornwall resident and chair of the board of assessment review, spoke in support of Fiorentino, whom he called a good assessor. “He went about making order from the mess,” Strine said, referring to the disorder apparently left by previous tax assessors.
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