Anyone know if it's  been published yet?  I see lots of others written in the paper but not Schenectady county.  The bills are due out in a couple weeks

They are preordering the cases of Crisco for "the ease" of --well,,,,you know...........

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SCHENECTADY COUNTY
Taxpayers may not see smaller bill
In city, tax rate down but assessments are up
BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA AND KATHLEEN MOORE
Gazette Reporter

    The county tax rate is going down, but the jury is still out on whether city taxpayers will actually see a smaller bill.
    Since most property owners’ assessments were changed in this year’s reassessment, no one is quite sure how the 2010 taxes will fall. Those whose assessments went up a small amount will see a savings in taxes.
    But for those whose assessments went up dramatically, the lower rate may not be enough to prevent a higher bill.
    The county Legislature set the tax rate Monday after some city legislators acknowledged they don’t know whether the new rate will help as much as they hoped it would.
    “We were successful at the county in reducing the full value tax levy by 2 percent,” said Legislator Gary Hughes. “That was a significant accomplishment, given the rising costs we face.”
    Earlier in the day, he had for a short time believed the tax rate reduction would lead to a significant tax break for most residents. But by the time he voted Monday night, the numbers were far less clear.
    “Whether or not this translates into a savings for an individual homeowner depends entirely on their reassessed property value,” he said.
    City Council members were equally uncertain when they set the city tax rate. They built a budget with no tax increase, yet acknowledged that some residents would still see a higher bill because of their new assessment. In particular, owners who saw their property increase in value by more than 30 percent are likely to pay more city taxes in 2010.
    For those owners, the county’s rate decrease may not be enough to overcome the vast increase in property assessment, forcing them to pay more in county taxes too. ..................>>>>...................>>>>....................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01101&AppName=1

NOW we get the truth....after the election! It appears that they didn't know this BEFORE the election. They must have just had an epiphany!

Wait until next year, an off (local) election year.  The reduction for 2010 (if there it turns out that there is one) results from the
application of one time revenue streams including $7.3M from the federal stimulus funds and the use of surplus funds.  Much
like the federal and state governments, the county government continues to expand in size and and increase cost.

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From the Sep. 9, 2009 Daily Gazette article:
... The county is using $7.3 million in federal stimulus money it is receiving this year and next and is taking $2.1 million out of its $35 million surplus funds account to reduce the tax levy. ...

The assessments are up thanks to Moodys....I wonder how much Crisco exchanged hands before it went up our butts.......

They can raise the ratings/valuations (who wants to own crap) but, if there are no good paying PRIVATE jobs around it then becomes a DSS vacuum
and it will eat itself alive.....

Well, we should be paying less this year than we had the previous year.  This is due to the re-evaluations that have gone on throughout the city of Schenectady, as well as the fact that last year, the residents of Rotterdam took it hard because someone (which, I would guess, is still being argued who in a back room somewhere) either submitted the incorrect numbers and/or verified them incorrectly, causing us to pay more than the normal (or better said, base) tax rate last year.