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Saratoga property taxes to stay the same

By LEIGH HORNBECK, Staff writer
Last updated: 3:55 p.m., Tuesday, October 28, 2008

BALLSTON SPA - The county tax rate will remain $2.15 per $1,000 of assessed property value for the second year, Saratoga County officials announced today.
     
Art Johnson, R-Wilton, the next chairman of the Board of Supervisors, unveiled the countys tentative spending plan for 2009. The budget is balanced at $240 million, a 3.6 percent increase from this year. The owner of a home valued at $250,000 will pay $537 a year in county taxes if the budget is approved.

Social programs - educating disabled pre-school children, community college fees and welfare - account for 25 percent of the county's spending, the largest bill. Income from fees and sales tax each account for 22 percent of the county's revenue followed by property taxes at 20 percent.

County Treasurer Sam Pitcheralle said given the shape of the national and state finances - Gov. David Paterson announced a $1.5 billion budget deficit this year - Saratoga County is doing surprisingly well. The tax base is worth more than $19 billion, a $2.8 million increase over the past year.

Officials in Schenectady County have predicted a 12.5 percent increase and Albany County Executive Michael Breslin said property taxes may increase by 4 percent there.

New initiatives in the Saratoga County budget include $600,000 to pay for 1,500 to 1,600 new pagers for emergency personnel across the county that will comply with the county's new emergency radio system, expected to be complete next year.

Johnson also formed a new committee that will develop three new recreational trails on parts of the 3,000 acres of forest land the county owns. Prospective sites include land off Louden Road in Wilton behind the Wilton Mall, and two sites in Northumberland near the Old Gick Farm and off Gailor Lane.

what do you expect that is where the richest of the rich are and they turn away the needy there plus the seniors

Did Saratoga County leave NYS? Aren't they subject to evil "State Mandates"? Only in Schenectady County do they grandstand begging the State.

     Differences; No Metrograft nor Metrograft Ray, GOP run Board of Supervisors, actual 2 party system, population growth not welfare growth, prosecute all welfare fraud.

Saratoga has:

gambling and alot of it
eating and alot of it
drinking and alot of it
music and alot of it

not to mention the movers and shakers that actually live there and have certain,,,,we'll call them credentials.......