Wow, chef's appreciation and a Polish day.    
Food and Polish.  Sounds like DV really better attend this one.  Oh, this is only to put it on the agenda for the next meeting anyway.   Oh, he won't put his pinky toe within a mile of the city anyway so he won't even attend the regular meeting next week.


Hmm, interest on delinquent taxes.   Wonder if Queen Leesa wants to raise them, make the already overtaxed, financially struggling homeowners suffer more?

But Leesa is the one of the loudest mouths OPPOSING a citywide reassessment.  So Queenie wants to punish homeowners by forcing them to pay Proctors taxes and the taxes of all of her millionaire and billionaire political cronies (bet Proctors has a hidden item in their budget to pay Lessa's taxes).   Then she is opposed to reassessment which is so sorely needed to insure that people pay only their fair share of taxes (but then, if I lived in the city, I'd prefer to be the only person to have ever grieved my assessment, then everyone else would subsidize me); but I guess she prefers to punish some homeowners who can't afford to hire an attorney to do that exhaustive work for reassessment, those who are elderly or can't take time off from work to be running around.   So let's see what Lessa has up her sleeve with the interest payment stuff, hike it more to get more money for the city?


But of course, the most important is the discussion of citywide reassessment, being brought to the council by the ONLY council member who truly represents the taxpayers.  I hope King Philip and Queen Leesa don't manipulate their staff who tape these meetings and cut out the sound.   This will be interesting.


I see the roundabout is on there too.   I wonder if they are going to explain how slow walking elderly people are going to cross the street without a traffic light and without a crosswalk.

I just made a payment that was late at city hall, the interest is a killer  

Quoted from rpforpres

I just made a payment that was late at city hall, the interest is a killer  

I really don't know how the penalty and interest rates are allowed.  It is a racket. Infact the city would be in big trouble financially if everyone did start paying on time faithfully year after year.  

Can't wait to see if Marion Porterfield speaks on the topic of assessment as she is like the board dem cheerleader, never owned a house, no knowledge of assessment, taxes, falling property values

Listen to Leesa, talking about "a taxpayer of 43 years" behind on taxes and having to pay the high penalties.

Yep, she's trying to run for mayor.

If she was sincere, she would force the city and plex to make the millionaires downtown pay their FULL taxes, NO MORE PILOTS.   The pilots are only a TINY FRACTION of their full tax bill so the dems are jacking up the taxes on the financially struggling homeowners to make them pay the taxes of the millionaires over and above the TINY fraction of the amount of tax they should pay.


Listen to McTHIEF blaming it all on absentee landlords.   Taxes are high because McTHIEF and his dem buddies make the homeowners pay the taxes of the downtown millionaires and billionaires.  

Let's her McTHIEF speak about DV's beloved Marcella being a DEADBEAT

What were they saying about the STAR exemption in relation to back taxes.

King Phillips taxpayer funded TV station has very poor equipment and it's very difficult to hear what they are saying

Quoted from TakingItBack

I really don't know how the penalty and interest rates are allowed.  It is a racket. Infact the city would be in big trouble financially if everyone did start paying on time faithfully year after year.  

It's called 'compelling voluntary compliance'........

humans are well trained by $$$$, unless you have enough to toss away, then you don't care, you're worry free and
eventually tax free if you pay the right folks.

SCHENECTADY — Mayor Gary McCarthy spoke adamantly against a reassessment Monday night, urging the Schenectady City Council to wait — possibly for years.

He asked them to let him fix up the city first.

Most council members seemed disinclined to argue with him publicly about it, but they did take up the issue of a dangerous dogs registry. In that case, McCarthy bowed to pressure and agreed to post addresses of dogs deemed in court to be dangerous. The dogs found to be dangerous this year will be posted on the city’s website today, he said.

But he asked for more time before a reassessment, in which every property in the city would be analyzed and its assessment changed to match approximate market value. Each owner’s tax bill is based on their property’s assessment, so incorrect assessments can cost owners dearly. The council has refunded more than $180,000 this year alone after owners successfully argued that their assessments were wrong.

But McCarthy said the city shouldn’t do a reassessment now. “I want to clean up some of the problems,” he said, adding that the city should first “eliminate the worst of the blight.”

He said a reassessment should wait until after the city demolishes properties using a federal loan the city will receive this year.

But that’s not all. Before a reassessment, he also wants the local land bank to get a state grant that could be used for more demolitions.

“It will get rid of the worst of the worst and start to create value,” he said, estimating that houses within 1,000 or so feet would increase in value if the blighted property were removed.

He also tried to slow down the council by warning of major costs.

“How do we line up the money to begin to pay for it?” he asked.

He had previously estimated that it could cost $3 million.

But the last reassessment, in 2009, cost about $500,000. And that included a year of data collection to determine details about every property in the city.

Councilman Vince Riggi challenged the mayor’s cost concerns.

“The data’s pretty current,” he said, suggesting that the city would not have to redo it.

McCarthy acknowledged that, saying, “It is, in theory, pretty good.”

But he warned that the city might have to hire consultants to analyze property sale trends. “Just the reality of it, it takes a couple years,” he said.

Riggi said the city should get started. “My concern is the inequality,” he said. “The [assessment] roll is skewed. It’s something we have to address.”

The council didn’t come to a decision Monday
http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2014/aug/05/0805_assess/

The mayor and his buddy DEMS on the council are all TOTALLY CLUELESS JACKA**ES

The mayor's comments proven is TOTAL IGNORANCE.

He REALLY thinks that demolishing a 100 or so properties out of some 20,000 is going to cause property values to rise?   If a house was assessed at $120,000 and it was for sale for 4 years and finally sells for $65,000, the mayor things that demolishing 100 properties is going to cause that house to go back up to $120,000?

The mayor thinks that taking down 100 properties out of 20,000 is going to save so much in city expenses that the tax BILLS could be reduced by 25% or something?    

The mayor, and his buddy dems, are TOTALLY CLUELESS.   The reason why property values are falling in the city is that they are forcing homeowners to pay the taxes of the millionaires and billionaires downtown which drives up the tax bills which causes a reduction in property values.   And that is combined with the city putting all it's focus on downtown and ignoring the neighborhoods, the neighborhoods where the taxpayers live.  The rich property owners downtown do NOT live IN the city, most do not even live anywhere in the county.  Most of the higher paid city employees do not live IN the city but they are living off the city taxpayer dole.  

Look how the DEMS have been wildly spending the taxpayers money on streets and sidewalks downtown but downtown owners do NOT pay one penny toward those expenses.   But look at that Millard street they mentioned last night, the engineer said it will be fixed within a couple weeks.   More PROOF that the city dems focus on downtown and ignore the streets in the neighborhoods.  WHY should that street EVER have taken so long to fix when it was so damaging to cars but the city was taking care of the downtown streets to cater to the millionaires who do NOT pay taxes.  

Look how the big dem cheerleader of these boards praised all that Erie blvd stuff, but he is TOTALLY SILENT and REFUSES to say anything about the condition of the streets in the neighborhoods where the taxpayers live.   He is a mirror image of McTHIEF.


So of course, the mayor claims the city has no money for a reassessment.  If the millionaires downtown paid their full share of taxes, the city would have the money.   If the political cronies of the dems would pay their taxes, then the taxes on the homeowners would be lower and there would be fewer foreclosures and less money the city would have to spend taking care of foreclosed properties so the city would have money to do a reassessment.   How difficult is that to understand?   But the mayor just doesn't get it.   He is a TRUE TOTALLY IGNORANT JACKA**.