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Town adopts revised volunteer firefighter and ambulance worker property tax exemption
Summary
After a public hearing, the Ancram Town Board approved Local Law No. 1 of 2025, amending and restating a property tax exemption for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers to reflect recent state changes. The measure passed by roll call.
The Ancram Town Board voted to adopt Local Law No. 1 of 2025, amending and restating the town's property tax exemption for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers. The clerk read the resolution before the board took a roll-call vote that recorded unanimous approval.
Supervisor introduced the public hearing, summarizing the change in state rules and why the town needed to update its local law. The supervisor said the exemption had previously been a 10% property tax exemption applied when volunteers served a company in the same town; state changes altered residency/eligibility rules and the town revised the local law to align with those changes. "Last year, we passed a local law giving firefighters and volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers a property tax break," the supervisor said during the hearing.
The clerk read the formal resolution text adopting the amended law and called for roll-call votes. The clerk recorded "Yes" votes for Councilwoman Hunt, Councilwoman Gold, Councilman Boyce and Councilwoman Lutz; the board chair declared the resolution adopted. The board then closed the public hearing on the measure and moved on to other agenda items.
The board did not specify an effective date for the law during the meeting; details about implementation and which tax rolls it will affect were not specified in the session's record.
