Excerpt from Feb 18
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Stockade Neighborhood Association President Mary D’Alessandro, who helps run the city program urging people to buy homes in Schenectady, is a year behind on city taxes. She’s also a year and a half behind on school taxes.
D’Alessandro said she tried her best to pay her taxes whenever she could.
“We certainly plan to pay them,” she said, “We budget it yearly. We put money away, and then we pay it.”
She currently owes $4,356 in city taxes and $2,319 in school taxes, all from last year. This school year’s tax is also accumulating, at $1,459 so far.
They budget for it? How? They put money away for it? How And since that was put in the paper, wow, not a penny paid in Schenectady school taxes. But they have the money to pay the taxes on their house in Montgomery Co IN FULL Maybe it's time to sell one of the houses. Try selling their Schenectady house, they'll be going to the assessor demanding a reduction Other parts in that new story:
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It’s a multi-million-dollar problem for the school district. Each year, $3 million to $5 million in taxes aren’t paid, forcing the school district to borrow money to cover that loss.
The delinquent bills are then handed to the city, which must pay the school district in full a year later. That causes its own problems — the city’s budget includes up to $5 million every year to pay those bills.
That means taxpayers pay additional city taxes to cover other taxpayers’ unpaid school taxes. They must also pay more in school taxes than strictly necessary to cover the interest payments for the school district’s short-term borrowing.
But the mayor is doing a wonderful job, forcing taxpayers to pay the additional city taxes to cover the unpaid school tax bills of his rich politically connected crony TAX DEADBEATS |
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