General News: Notes from the Village Board Meeting
September 23, 2009
Police Efficiency Study
The village has received a preliminary study of the police department’s efficiency that was conducted by the Division of Criminal Justice Services in Albany. The village had been waiting for the report before making a final decision on appointing a permanent chief in the village department. Last week, the trustees appointed Paul Weber, a sergeant in the city of Newburgh police department, as the interim chief of the Cornwall-on-Hudson police department. Village officials have thirty days to review and respond to the preliminary report. After those responses are looked at, the report will be released to the public.
Computerize the Property Assessment System?
Tom Gordon, a village resident who is the former vice chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange, is proposing to the town and village that it look into using computerized reviews of property assessments as a way to ensure fairness in the system. In a letter, Gordon proposes that a computerized system would avoid the appearance of subjectivity and would ultimately ensure fairness to all taxpayers.
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I think any system that accounts for everyone's "current" value of their home to be the fairest. You can go on sites like www.zillow.com and see a similar system in action. How many people around here have a higher assessed value then their house is worth. Fair is fair.
posted by J Klein on 09/23/09 at 10:41 AM
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