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Which districts exactly are proposing a 7-8% increase???
Read my previous posts. Any increase can result in higher tax levies than you vote on. I and many others in my district approved 3%. Some are being taxed as high as 14%!! Based on convoluted assessments. For each winning challenge to an assessment someone else's goes rate up. If your home declines but someone elses declines MORE, your tax rate goes up. There is an exact $ to be raised and it is not divided equally. Each time someone pays less, others pick up the difference. I work for a district. We received weeks of phone calls from elderly and others screming about why their taxes went up 7, 8 10%. Almost impossible to give a cogent answer. What you vote on and what you may ultimately pay are not related. The scam continues. Gotta feed the beast somehow.
Read my previous posts. Any increase can result in higher tax levies than you vote on. I and many others in my district approved 3%. Some are being taxed as high as 14%!! Based on convoluted assessments. For each winning challenge to an assessment someone else's goes rate up. If your home declines but someone elses declines MORE, your tax rate goes up. There is an exact $ to be raised and it is not divided equally. Each time someone pays less, others pick up the difference. I work for a district. We received weeks of phone calls from elderly and others screming about why their taxes went up 7, 8 10%. Almost impossible to give a cogent answer. What you vote on and what you may ultimately pay are not related. The scam continues. Gotta feed the beast somehow.
Yeah, mongoose is right on the convoluted assessment issue. Another factor causing these swings is all the businesses going belly up or leaving LI in this lousy economy. That adds fuel to the fire by dropping Commercial RE assessments significantly...And guess who gets stuck making up for this loss in tax revenue? Residential Homeowners.
I recently got my School District Budget Notice AND if the budget is defeated the Contingency Budget would actually decrease the budget over 500K from the previous year and result in a 1% decrease!
So in essence taxpayers could actually be voting to decrease their taxes!
I recently got my School District Budget Notice AND if the budget is defeated the Contingency Budget would actually decrease the budget over 500K from the previous year and result in a 1% decrease!
So in essence taxpayers could actually be voting to decrease their taxes!
And the side effects/collateral damage would be what?
And the side effects/collateral damage would be what?
Not much, other than the SD trying to actually save money, instead of wasting it. I can't believe people actually buy the scare tactics of the propaganda that is sent out by the SD. WAKE UP people! WE have the POWER in the vote!
Not much, other than the SD trying to actually save money, instead of wasting it. I can't believe people actually buy the scare tactics of the propaganda that is sent out by the SD. WAKE UP people! WE have the POWER in the vote!
That would be nice but the truth is really there is not enough information to accurately answer the question. The decrease is likely state or federal funds for a one time program from the previous year (full day KG, universal pre-K, whatever) that would not appear this year anyway. It may or may not be related to the budget presented to the voters this year. That money may not even be in there. It's $500k from last year that wouldn't carry over. It's not related. Thus the contingency is the same budget as last year minus one time state or fed earmarks (the $500k). They can call it a "decrease" but that just helps with the scare tactic. "OMG. they're cutting a half million, it must be football and AP math..." but likely it's $500k that was already spent and not part of revenue in the new budget anyway.
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