SCHENECTADY Missteps leave academy facing foreclosure BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter Kathleen Moore at 395-3120 or moore@dailygazette.com.
The Zone 5 Regional Law Enforcement Academy is facing threats of foreclosure over a tax debt that the city once promised to waive. That debt — which, it turns out, was never waived — has grown from $4,000 to $70,000 through fi ve years of interest and late fees. Now the City Council may intervene and negotiate with American Tax Funding to stop the foreclosure. The whole situation is a “comedy of errors,” said academy director Pat Smith, detailing the series of miscommunications that led to the crisis. First, he said, the academy intended to buy its present home from Metroplex Development Authority. If Metroplex had bought the building, he thought, it would have been taken off the tax roll. Then when the nonprofit took it over, it would have stayed off the tax roll. But instead, the academy bought the building directly from its owners and thus had to file a form stating that the property is now taxexempt. The trouble is that the city can only change tax status once a year. The academy bought its property after the deadline — meaning it had to pay taxes until the next status change. ..........>>>>...................>>>>...........http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01203&AppName=1
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January 7, 2010, 7:34am
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City promised something that "didn't work out" ? Really? Never would have thought THAT could happen .. anyone surprised?
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
The City tax debt was not paid for five years and was over $70,000? What if this was a sheeple taxpayer? Doubt the City Attorney would be riding to the rescue.
The whole situation is a “comedy of errors,” said academy director Pat Smith, detailing the series of miscommunications that led to the crisis.
COMEDY OF ERRORS?? That is an understatement. Only in Schenectady can a municipality not know they didn't pay their taxes, FOR 5 YEARS! And no one knew anything!! Someone should write a book called 'It's so schenectady'! No one would believe it!
I think they need a communication czar!
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
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The City tax debt was not paid for five years and was over $70,000? What if this was a sheeple taxpayer? Doubt the City Attorney would be riding to the rescue.
