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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Green holds on in New Windsor
Mullarkey, Lundstrom re-elected to town board
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
New Windsor Republicans won across
the board in the general election last
Tuesday, with town Supervisor George
Green capturing roughly 57 percent of
the vote.
Green is now headed for his fifth term
as town supervisor.
Orange County Board of Elections
unofficial results show Green garnered
1,938 votes compared to 1,477 votes cast
for Democrat Richard Ostner on Tuesday.
Incumbent Republican council members Pat Mullarkey and Eric Lundstrom
received 1,943 and 1,788 votes, respectively. Democratic challengers Kelly Allegra
drew 1,450 and Kirk Williams received
1,327 votes.
The supervisorial race became heated
this year, with Green and his opponent
Richard Ostner exchanging jabs over how
to expand the tax base and manage an
New Windsor tax levy
increases by 1.87%
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
The New Windsor Town Board adopted the town’s 2016 budget this month,
approving a $34.3 million spending plan.
The budget is accompanied by a property
tax levy increase of 1.87 percent.
The town tax levy amounts to $14.5
million, according to the Town of New
Windsor comptroller, not including fire
districts, for which property owners are
billed separately.
The new budget carries a town-wide tax
rate of $28.44 per $1,000 of assessed property value, up from $28.08 this year.
A sample property tax bill shows that
a single family home assessed at $40,000
– the average assessed value of a home
in New Windsor – will pay an average of
$1,836 in property taxes in 2016, about $31
more than the previous year.
All town residents pay taxes for general, highway and ambulance funds, town
Comptroller Jack Finnegan explained,
and most pay for garbage, water and
sewer districts.
The tax levy remains within the
state-imposed property tax cap, said
Finnegan. As a result of the town remaining within the tax levy limit last year,
property owners can expect tax freeze
credit refunds by the end of the year, he
said.
“Next year, we’ll not only have to stay
within the tax cap, we’ll have to provide
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