Village Council Public 2014 Budget Hearings – March 19, 21, 27, April 7, 10
The Village Council has scheduled several Public Budget Hearings to take place in Village Hall, 131 N. Maple Avenue, Ridgewood.
Wednesday, March 19 from 5 – 7PM in the Court Room;
Friday, March 21 from 5 – 7PM in the Court Room;
Thursday, March 27 from 5 – 9:30PM in the Senior Center;
Monday, April 7 from 5 – 7PM in the Court Room;
Thursday, April 10 from 5 to 10PM in the Senior Center
Departments Hearings:
March 19 – Overview of Budget, Community Services – Building Dept; Zoining, Health Dept, Tax Assessor.
March 21 – Police Department; Fire Department
Schedule to TBD for other departments
I hear they are working on another 0% tax increase.
You get what you pay for. Get used to bumpy streets, waiting inordinate amounts of time for building inspections, crappy snow removal & leaf pickup, and less.
0 will not work. down the road it will catch up with us.
That’s right #2, when you decide to only invest the growth in you annual budget in pensions & healthcare for retirees, you have to cut elsewhere which is what is happening. This has been well flagged by many people for many years. Please tell the full story.
The full story #4 is that if you had a modest tax hike, you would not have to cut as many services. 0 % is a bit over the top, in my humble opinion.
Thanks #5, we already pay some of the highest taxes in the country, but let’s just pay more, right ? How about -4% ? In my humble opinion that’s what we should be doing when property values fell >4% in 2013. The reassessment lowered assessed values by 13.1% vs. 2012/2013, but the average home only sold for 8.35% above the assessed value in 2013 according to a recent Tarvin report, i.e. property values actually fell by 4.75% last year (8.35% – 13.1%). Yet our property taxes were up 1.3% last year including the BoE and County. If property taxes are linked to property values, doesn’t that mean they should be cut year on year ? Those “modest tax hikes” have been paying for pension & healthcare cost increases for years now, despite a 10% cut to our Village workforce in 2010.
#6 said…..Clearly you have no idea how Real estate property taxes are calculated and managed when you make statements like:
The reassessment lowered assessed values by 13.1% vs. 2012/2013, but the average home only sold for 8.35% above the assessed value in 2013 according to a recent Tarvin report i.e. property values actually fell by 4.75% last year (8.35% – 13.1%). Yet our property taxes were up 1.3% last year.
The value of you home is only important as to how it relates to the other homes in your community. The community could value your home it at $10,000.00, $100,000.00 or $1,000,000.00 and it would only change the Mil rate. Just because the market value of your home goes up and down it doesn’t change the amount of taxes necessary to operate the community.
It’s obvious you don’t understand how property taxes work!
#7, you would make sense only if realized sales prices had no relationship to assessed values, which they clearly do. Prospective buyers look at assessed values and prospective property taxes in making their buying decision. If you don’t think they do, then you must be smoking some rotting Christmas trees. Property taxes are too high given the decline in property vales in Ridgewood since 2007, period. They should fall because property values are down. The relationship held when values increased, but now you’re arguing that it no longer holds because of the amount of taxes necessary to operate the community. That’s horse malarkey. The amount of taxes necessary to run the Village have risen because of the massive increase in fixed costs for pensions & healthcare.