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Vol. 16, No. 40
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OCTOBER 2 - 8, 2019
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
G raceful D ancers
Marlborough unveils
preliminary budget
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
At their last meeting, the Marlborough
Town Board announced their 2020
preliminary budget and set a public
hearing on it for Monday, October 14 at 7
p.m. at town hall.
The budget appropriation for next
year stands at $9,989,554. The board will
offset this amount with revenues totaling
$2,363,822 and will tap their unexpended
fund balance by $125,000, bringing the
amount that will be collected by residents
in the tax levy to $7,500,732.
Lanzetta said as the town moves
through the process of compiling the 2020
budget he expects the town’s General
Fund to go from an increase of 2.30%
down to 2.04% and the Highway General
fund will remain the same at a -1.17%
increase. Overall he expects the town’s
budget to drop from a 1.02% increase to a
.86% increase.
Supervisor Al Lanzetta highlighted the
proposed increase to a homeowner: on a
home assessed at $150,000 the increase
in taxes from this year to next year is
$10.50; on a home assessed at $200,000
residents will see an increase of $14; on
a home assessed at $250,000 the increase
amounts to $17.50 and a home at $300,000
will pay $21 more than last year and a
home assessed at $400,000 will pay $28
more than last year. He said when the
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Mark Reynolds
A group portrait of Gina Marie’z dancers striking a pose at the Highland Fall Festival on Saturday: standing L-R Grace Volpe, Kala Rizzo,
Cameryn Dutra, Lydia Paolo, Riley Adams, Gabrielle Joy Minard and Alyssa Dreyer. Kneeling L-R Catherine Cordova, Eva Meyer and Danielle
Ticcony. More photos on pages 18-19.
Residents to developers: slow down!
Lloyd residents question pace of development
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
At last week’s Lloyd Planning Board
meeting, Lindsay Decker spoke on behalf
of her neighbors in the Hudson Hills
development who are objecting to a
spate of development projects that have
recently been proposed on the southern
side of town. She and her fellow residents
have been attending Planning Board
meetings since late March, “to learn more
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about the projects that were happening
on either side of the entrances of our
community. At that point in time there
were only two; now just 6 months later,
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