IN Brentwood-Baldwin-Whitehall Fall 2017 | Page 46

SAVE THE DATES! Sunday October 15th Pumpkin Patch in the Park Saturday October 28th 2nd Annual BBW Chamber Chili Cook-off, Brentwood Civic Center Tuesday October 31st Halloween Night in Brentwood 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. COUNCIL MEETINGS: Tuesday September 19th Council Agenda Meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday September 25th Council Regular Meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday October 16th Council Agenda Meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday October 23rd Council Regular Meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday November 20th Council Agenda Meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday November 27th Council Regular Meeting 7:30 p.m. MUNICIPAL HOLIDAYS OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED: Monday September 4th Labor Day Friday November 10th Veterans Day Thursday November 23rd Thanksgiving Day Friday November 24th Day after Thanksgiving Monday December 25th Christmas Day 44 Brentwood-Baldwin-Whitehall B y this time, you should have received your School District Real Estate Tax Bill. This bill is blue and, unlike your Borough Real Estate Tax Bill, this has three parts. The reason the School District Real Estate Tax Bill has three parts is because the School District offers an installment payment plan for your taxes. The installments are due 8/31, 10/31 and 12/31 respectively. If you have not received your tax bill please email me at [email protected] and I will send your bill back to you electronically. Also, if you have not yet paid your Borough Real Estate Tax Bill, it is now due at Penalty. This bill was mailed in March. As you may be aware, I am an elected Tax Collector and my duties consist of billing the taxes and collecting the current year taxes only. Each year, some taxpayers are unaware that they have an outstanding bill. If you are not sure whether you paid or did not pay your borough bill, please ask when paying your school tax in person. If you pay by mail, please enclose a note to have me double check if you have paid your borough bill. If you have recently paid off your mortgage, your mortgage company does not have to forward the tax bill to you. Please call to get your tax bill for this year. Then, you must also call Allegheny County at 412.350.4100 to change your address. Your mortgage company usually does not contact the county to change your address. I also do not set the amount of taxes as they are set by the County (assess valuation) and either the Borough or School District (millage). Both the Borough and the School District have meetings to set that millage each year. The Borough usually sets their millage in December and the School District sets their millage in June. So the amounts you pay for your taxes are based upon the assessed valuation multiplied by the millage. If you have questions about your assessed valuation, you must contact Allegheny County (www.alleghenycounty.us), then go to property assessment. If you have questions about the millage, you should contact either the School District or the Borough of Brentwood to help you with those questions. Please remember my office is located at 3730 Brownsville Road. You may stop in to ask questions or pay bills on Tuesdays from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. or Thursdays from 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. until October 31st.