MECHANICVILLE DECEMBER 17- The City Council unanimously approved the 2015 budget. This budget calls for a 2.89% tax increase. The decrease in assessment accounts for 2.41% of that 2.89%.
Read the entire article in the December 25th issue.
TOWN OF STILLWATER, December 18 – The Stillwater Town Board has approved the 2015 Town Budget. It exceeds the Governor’s imposed 2 percent cap on tax increases, but not by very much, as Supervisor Edward Kinowski explained one final time.
Read the entire article in the December 25th edition.
TOWN OF STILLWATER, November 20 - The Town of Stillwater like all New York towns is supposed to approve its Preliminary Budget for the new year on or before November 20. Following Thursday's Town Board business meeting, Supervisor Edward Kinowski mused with this writer: Yes, the Town does have a budget in place, in one way... but it doesn't, in another,and rather roundabout way. "Normally by Nov. 20," explained the Supervisor, "We are ready to do that." But due to what he called "a little bit of a nuance that occurred three days before," the Town did not yet pass its budget by a vote. But in the aforementioned roundabout way, the Town still DOES have a Final Budget in place, as of that night.
Read the entire article in the Nov. 27th issue of the Express.
Hoosic Valley-The Board of Education unanimously approved the proposed 2014-15 budget in an April meeting. Mr. Terry Blanchfield, Interim Business Administrator presented an overview of the budget and highlights in a public hearing on May 6th 2014. The formal adoption of the budget will now await the outcome of the vote by taxpayers on May 20th.
Read the entire article in the May 15th issue of the Express.
BALLSTON SPA, October 31 – Despite costs still rising, it will cost the owner of a $200,000 home in Saratoga County only a couple bucks more – literally – to keep the government going in 2014.
"For the past three years, Saratoga County has taken a very aggressive approach toward reducing the expense side of our budget," said County Administrator Spencer Hellwig III at a press conference Thursday presenting the 2014 Tentative County Budget. "We are now beginning to see the fruits of those labors. Our operating budget is stabilizing, and in 2014 we will have our lowest anticipated usage of fund balance in seven years. At the same time, our tax rates are still among the lowest in the state. The 2014 Tentative Budget will continue to implement a decisive program to restore Saratoga County's financial stability."
Read the full story in the Nov. 7 issue of the Express.