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County to amend volunteer firefighter/EMS tax-exemption law to include neighboring service; veterans office reports holiday aid distribution
Summary
Committee members agreed to prepare an amended local law to allow volunteer firefighters and ambulance members who live in one municipality but serve in a neighboring one to qualify for a real property tax exemption; veterans staff reported holiday food and donation distributions and a driver recruitment note.
Columbia County staff told the committee they will prepare an amendment to the county’s local law on property tax exemptions for volunteer fire and ambulance workers to explicitly allow volunteers who live in one municipality but serve in a neighboring one to qualify for the exemption.
Trish, a planning/legislative staff speaker, explained the change responds to a gap created by a late-year state change to the Real Property Tax Law that added a section (referred to in the meeting record as a new subsection) allowing municipalities and school districts to adopt local rules permitting volunteers to serve in…
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