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Board approves reducing service requirement for volunteer firefighter tax exemption
Summary
After a public hearing, the Sachem Central School District board approved changing the minimum years of service for the Real Property Tax Law 466 exemption for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers from five years to two, aiming to boost recruitment. The change must be adopted by March 1 to take effect for the next tax year.
The Sachem Central School District Board of Education voted to approve a change to the Real Property Tax Law 466 exemption for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers, reducing the minimum required years of service from five to two.
The board opened a public hearing to discuss the proposal and heard an explanation from district staff. "So the only thing that we were looking to change right now in the law was the minimum number of years from 5 to 2," district staff member Miss Sarakis said, adding…
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