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Board affirms tax rolls and authorizes tax warrant; levy figures recorded in meeting materials
Summary
The board approved resolutions to confirm tax rolls and authorize a district tax levy (recorded in the meeting as "24489") and a tax warrant/process described in the transcript as a combined total "25 million $895," and discussed state equalization rates and county assessment variability.
The board approved a resolution confirming tax rolls and authorizing the district’s tax levy; the meeting record lists the levy amount as "24489." The presenter said that figure is slightly under the state tax cap and that the district had to reduce the levy to account for omitted taxes in one town in Essex County.
A subsequent tax-warrant resolution and explanation described the district’s process for calculating separate tax rates for the district and the library, and creating a combined tax file the counties will use to issue bills. The meeting transcript records a combined total described as "25 million $895." The school business official explained the business office produces separate calculations for the district and the library, then a combined file is sent to the three counties and imported into the district’s tax-collection software.
Board members asked about the state 'equalization rate,' which the presenter described as the state’s method for adjusting assessed values to level assessment differences across towns (for example, assigning 100% in a town it believes is fully assessed). "The equalization rate is used by New York state to help level the playing field for all the different towns," a board member said. The board approved the tax-roll and tax-warrant resolutions by voice vote.
The figures in the transcript appear with formatting irregularities; the district’s official adopted tax levy and the final tax bills will be in the formal resolutions and the counties' tax-file exports.
