The Yorktown Town Board adopted a 2025 budget last week that includes a tax increase of 6.6 percent. Town taxes represent about 10 percent of a property owner’s total tax bill. Based on calculations for the average home assessed at
Read MoreMount Kisco Mayor Michael Cindrich said last week that he expects the village to extend the six-month moratorium on battery energy storage systems (BESS) as efforts to revise the municipality’s zoning code to regulate the facilities continue. Cindrich made his
Read MoreA large contingent of state and local elected officials and union leaders gathered in Montrose last week to call for increased funding for road safety improvements in next year’s state budget. During a Dec. 5 press conference at the International
Read MoreA settlement could be on the horizon in the three-and-a-half-year litigation between Westchester County and a fixed-based operator at the county airport after a Stipulation of Settlement was filed last week. An attorney for Million Air said the Dec. 2
Read MoreA slight reduction in town taxes is expected for New Castle residents next year as the Town Board is expected to adopted its $50.2 million spending plan this on Tuesday evening. Officials are ready to adopt the 2025 budget with
Read MoreAn unexpected sharp reduction in Mount Pleasant’s health insurance premium for 2025 has reduced the town’s spending by nearly $300,000 enabling officials to present a budget for next year that is under the tax cap. Mount Pleasant Comptroller Noreen McGinty
Read MoreBy Martin Wilbur The North Castle Town Board is on track to approve a $42.6 million budget for 2025 with no tax increase, bolstered by an overflowing fund balance that will be used to help balance the budget. Board members
Read MoreSanta Claus is not the only one on the lookout for bad behavior this winter. The White Plains Common Council already installed cameras to catch red light offenders and is now getting close to adding them to school buses to
Read MoreMount Pleasant residents grilled the Town Board last week over the likelihood of exceeding the tax cap while granting themselves raises and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting a voting rights lawsuit. For about an hour-and-a-half last Tuesday evening,
Read MorePleasantville officials are leaning toward raising pool fees by about 35 percent for village residents for the upcoming summer to help defray some of the costs to build the new facility. The issue of the likely increase in pool membership fees
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