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Long Lake board adopts local law to override 2025 tax levy limit
Summary
The Town Board adopted Local Law No. 2 of 2024 to override the state tax levy limit for fiscal year 2025, approving a budgetary authority that allows a levy higher than General Municipal Law §3-c would normally permit.
The Town Board of Long Lake on Oct. 30, 2024, adopted Local Law No. 2 of 2024, a measure authorizing the town to override the tax levy limit established under New York General Municipal Law §3-c for fiscal year 2025. Supervisor Clay J. Arsenault presided over the meeting where the board approved the law unanimously.
The local law was considered after a publicly noticed hearing and required a 60% board vote under the statute; the minutes record a motion by Councilman Nathan S. Hosley, seconded by Councilman Thomas L. Donnelly, and adoption by the full five-member board. The board also noted the adoption is exempt from further SEQRA review under 6 NYCRR §617.5(c)(20) as routine agency administration.
Board members did not record substantive opposition in the meeting minutes. The resolution authorizes the board to adopt a 2025 budget that may require a real property tax levy in excess of the statutory limit; the Town Clerk was directed to file the local law with the New York Secretary of State.
The adoption expands the town’s budget-setting flexibility for 2025 but does not itself set any specific tax-rate or dollar amounts; those figures will be determined when the board adopts the 2025 budget documents later in the budget cycle.
