if you and I and everyone in town were assessed at 10% our value, the levy would always be the same(levy at 8% or 10% or 15% etc).....
now that we are at 100%(whatever the market values us at) the levy is a TRUE HIT(at 8% or 10% or 15% etc).......
NOW IS THE TIME FOR TAXPAYERS TO DEMAND VALUE/WORTH/WEALTH FROM OUR PORTION OF PAYMENT TO THE LEVY......
WHO SETS THE FREAKIN' LEVY......STATE, COUNTY, TOWN ETC..........
currently we are all sitting around pointing fingers at who has more/less etc.......
here's the deal----if you purchase a home worth $800,000 and you are assessed at 100%---BAM---your levy portion will appear more, but, you knew that purchasing your home......
if you purchase a home worth $100,000 and you are assessed at 100%---BAM----your levy portion will appear less, but, you knew that purchasing your home......
NO FREEBIES NO CUTS NO FAVORS......TIME TO DEMAND IT FROM OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND THE SYSTEM......(they like to keep us pointing at eachother, keeps us STUPID)
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
They can 'hide' what every nickle and dime they try to in appraisals/assessments....but the fact remains that the monkey on our backs is THE LEVY......
they can be pulled down from their pedestals.....blood appears to be thicker than water(untrue)....money is thicker than blood and water cost money...
those who control the $$ control the masses those who control the guns control the masses
soon on the horizon: those who control your BIOS for work/healthinsurance etc, control the masses.......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
ROTTERDAM Town likely to sue appraisal company BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter Justin Mason at 395-3113 or jmason@dailygazette.net.
Town officials are planning to file a lawsuit for breach of contract against GAR Associates, the Amherst-based private appraisal company that conducted Rotterdam’s revaluation in 2007. Board members are expected to approve a resolution today at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall authorizing Supervisor Steve Tommasone to begin litigation against the company. Town Attorney Gerard Parisi said the lawsuit focuses on GAR’s failure to properly inventory Rotterdam’s more than 13,000 parcels during the reassessment. “The town feels they did not perform those services,” he said Tuesday. Town officials had been in discussions with GAR since January, when attorneys representing both sides had an informal meeting. But Parisi said GAR still hasn’t resolved the issues raised by the town, leaving Rotterdam with little recourse. “We went through two or three rounds of putting all that information together to show them their errors,” he said. “They never came in to do anything to resolve the problems.” Cindy Baire, GAR’s vice president, disagrees. If anything, she said, the town didn’t live up to its end of the agreement by failing to provide a data-input worker during the revaluation, as stipulated in the contract. Baire said GAR requested the working documents the company used during the reassessment and turned over to the town so GAR could compare them to the discrepancies Rotterdam has since discovered. She said the town never provided these files to the company. “They’re making all these accusations and they’ve never given us anything definitive,” she said. “If anybody is in breach of contract, it’s the town.” ...............>>>>.............>>>>..................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar01203
Wasn't this article in the paper just a few days ago? Didn't we already know this?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
and this hear taxing tommasone is why you have a good man like Franny in the race since his taxes went DOUBLE and he intends to do something about that on new years so be ready to cry you repubs
if you and I and everyone in town were assessed at 10% our value, the levy would always be the same(levy at 8% or 10% or 15% etc).....
now that we are at 100%(whatever the market values us at) the levy is a TRUE HIT(at 8% or 10% or 15% etc).......
NOW IS THE TIME FOR TAXPAYERS TO DEMAND VALUE/WORTH/WEALTH FROM OUR PORTION OF PAYMENT TO THE LEVY......
WHO SETS THE FREAKIN' LEVY......STATE, COUNTY, TOWN ETC..........
currently we are all sitting around pointing fingers at who has more/less etc.......
here's the deal----if you purchase a home worth $800,000 and you are assessed at 100%---BAM---your levy portion will appear more, but, you knew that purchasing your home......
if you purchase a home worth $100,000 and you are assessed at 100%---BAM----your levy portion will appear less, but, you knew that purchasing your home......
NO FREEBIES NO CUTS NO FAVORS......TIME TO DEMAND IT FROM OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND THE SYSTEM......(they like to keep us pointing at eachother, keeps us STUPID)
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Rotterdam wants refund on reassessment Thursday, June 18, 2009 By Justin Mason (Contact) Gazette Reporter
ROTTERDAM — Rotterdam wants its money back. An attorney representing the town has filed a lawsuit against GAR Associates — the company that did the town’s 2007 revaluation — alleging that the company didn’t live up to its end of the contract. The 14-page lawsuit filed this week in Schenectady County Supreme Court accuses the Buffalo-based appraisal firm of breaching its contract with the town, negligence, misrepresentation, malpractice and failing to take remedial action following the town’s first full reassessment in decades. Paul Goldman, the private attorney who is representing the town in the action, said the town is seeking a return of the $752,500 that was paid to GAR for the reassessment. In addition, he said the town is seeking compensation on each of the five actions lodged against the company, bringing the total claim to $1 million, and any other relief deemed by the court. “Basically, what [Rotterdam] is looking for is a refund of their money and damages,” he said. GAR Vice President Cindy Baire said the company hadn’t received the lawsuit yet and declined to comment on it directly. She said GAR met with town officials in January and asked for specific instances where the company had failed to live up to its end of the contract but has yet to receive any reply. “Not a word, not a response, nothing,” she said. “If they really wanted to settle this, that was the perfect time.” The lawsuit claims that GAR failed to complete an accurate, independent valuation of all of the town’s properties. Among other things, the town is accusing the company of failing to properly inventory utilities, tax-exempt properties and “line parcels,” which are those straddling Rotterdam’s border with neighboring municipalities. “That’s just an example of the problems,” Goldman said of the line parcels. The lawsuit also claims that GAR failed to properly staff the reassessment project in accordance with the contract. As a result, the town suffered damages and other expenses incurred by the faulty reassessment, the lawsuit alleges.................>>>>..........................>>>>..........http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2009/jun/18/0618_gar/
more lies trying to cover ho wbad they screwed up everything by raising all the taxes and now stevie ego and mertz want to get the money to give breaks to the rich friends and business woners who help them get in since they are repubs
I like the 'value' of my home....everyone should love their home to valued.....
AGAIN: If a person's home is valued at $800,000 and the tax levy is 10%....you chose the home....you knew....and good for you prosper....
If a person's home is valued at $100,000 and the tax levy is 10%....you chose the home...you knew...and good for you prosper.....
now....if some folks think they pay 'more than their share' in taxes,,,,,,basic math---10% of anything is STILL 10%........ maybe one needs a better accountant to find loopholes in income taxes and crap like that........
do I need to paint a damn picture here???? We are all sitting around talking about the gansta/gumbas and what they have/dont have......
EVERYONE NEEDS TO SUCK IT UP!!!! TIME TO SHAKE DOWN TOWNHALL AND THE GUMBAS/GANGSTAS..........
the next generation is moving in.....time to move on......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Rotterdam’s increasingly belligerent attitude toward GAR Associates, the firm that in 2007 completed the town’s first property revaluation in over 50 years, has been hard to figure. That many townspeople were dissatisfied with the results is inarguable and understandable: They’d been underassessed for so long that their new assessments were truly shocking. But that was no reason to take the bearer of the bad tidings to court, as the town has decided to do. Buffalo-based GAR is no fly-by-night, but a well-established player in the business. Its owners say they’ve never been sued before, and have tried negotiating with the town over their differences, but there have been no communications between the parties for months. In the meantime, the town paid $30,000 a year ago to a consultant to double-check GAR’s results. No problem, except the town has steadfastly refused to divulge its findings. Former Democratic Councilman Robert Godlewski, as well as the Gazette, have filed freedom of information requests, but the town has cited “potential litigation” over the case. Well, potential litigation isn’t a legitimate exception to law, — an opinion affirmed by Robert Freeman, head of the Committe on Open Government — and when the study was commissioned there was nary a mention of its being used that way. Meanwhile, the lawsuit wasn’t filed until this week. What is known is that the Rotterdam Republicans who now control town government were opposed to the revaluation from the outset (it was started over their objections by a Democratic administration led by then-Supervisor John Paolino). The GOP dumped John Macejka Jr., the assessor who oversaw the reval, as soon as they took control, in January 2008. That his replacement, Craig Surprise, would have some differences of opinion over the quality of GAR’s work is to be expected — assessing property isn’t a totally objective science. But even if there were some errors in judgment, and outright omissions (as town officials claim), that hardly seems grounds for a suit to recover the project’s entire cost. Going to court is going to take a long time and cost a lot of money. Why wouldn’t the town show its cards and, if there really were so many substantive problems with the reval, try to negotiate a settlement with GAR?
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