Town board members adopted a new budget. This budget has gone through some revisions over the past few weeks. Supervisor Hunneyman originally presented a budget that had a 30 cent increase per 1000. It would have raised taxes from 53cents per thousand of assessed property value to 83 cents, approximately a 56% increase.
Taxpayers made their concerns known, which sent Hunneyman back to the drawing board to make cuts to whittle the increase down to something more palatable. Tonight the revised budget was adopted by the Town Board. The 2013 budget will see a 18 cent increase, raising it to 71 cents per thousand of assessed property value which translates into a 33.962 % increase.
