Tax panel nears end of its work
The New York Commission on Property Tax Relief’s public-hearing tour around the state is coming to an end. On Wednesday, the panel holds its 14th and final public hearing on how the state can help property taxpayers. The meeting begins at 1 p.m. at the Onondaga County Court House in Syracuse, and it will be webcast.
The commission is focusing on special education, school-district mandate relief, the impact of property taxes on the Big 4 large-city school districts (Yonkers, Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo), boards of cooperative educational services and school-district consolidating issues.
The panel’s final report has to be submitted in three weeks. In a preliminary report released in June, the commission recommended a cap on the growth of school property taxes. Once that is in place, the state should implement a circuit-breaker mechanism, meaning property taxes would be limited if they reached a certain proportion of a homeowner’s income, the report said. The commission made more than 20 recommendations to reduce mandates on school districts and address the root causes of high property taxes.
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They need to traverse the State to know how people feel about this? Read the newspapers and take a peek at the polls. These politicians would need twelve-hundred cooks to fry a hamburger. And when they all got together and were paid, there’s be no money left for the patty.