Vol. 37, No. 16 3 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2019
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Maybrook’s proposed 9%
tax hike sparks concerns
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
Several residents voiced concern
about the nine percent tax increase in
Maybrook’s 2019-20 budget at a public
hearing on April 8.
“I think nine percent is just a little
too high,” Maybrook resident Lou Curti
said. “And I understand our slush fund,
the cushion, we need to have something
in place.”
Currently, the village’s fund balance
is at zero, so the tax hike will help
replenish the fund balance. The zero-
fund balance has caused the Office of the
State Comptroller to list the village as
moderately stressed for fiscal year ending
in 2018.
The fund balance is a municipality’s
difference between assets and liabilities.
The New York State Government Finance
Officers’ Association recommends
municipalities keep a fund balance of
at least two months of annual total
expenditures as insurance against
unanticipated expenses or revenue
shortfalls.
The new 2019-20 tax rate for a Town of
Montgomery resident will be $15.43 per
$1,000 assessed, up from $14.17 last year.
The new 2019-20 tax rate for a Town of
Hamptonburg resident, which has a small
contingency in Maybrook, will be $10.03
per $1,000 assessed.
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Navy brass
Trump taps Walden native as Chief Naval Officer
A Walden native has been nominated
by President Trump to serve as Chief
Naval Officer.
Admiral William F Moran, 60, will
have a fleet of 355 warships at his
disposal if confirmed by the senate.
Confirmation is expected for the current
Vice Chief of Naval Operations.
Moran, who graduated from Valley
Central High School in 1977, is the
son of Dr. William and Carol Moran.
His father served as Valley Central
Superintendent of Schools for nearly
20 years. Following his Valley Central
graduation, he attended the U.S. Naval
Academy, earning his commission in
1981 and aviator wings the following
year.
As a pilot, his job was to hunt Soviet
submarines. That crucial mission took
him to Brunswick, Maine and then
a long association with Florida —
Jacksonville and nearby Naval Station
Mayport, home to the famed aircraft
carrier Forrestal.
From mid-1989 to late 1990, he served
on board it as a Carrier Strike Group
Six staffer, rising from his role as the
admiral’s flag lieutenant to qualify as
a Battle Group Tactical Watch Officer.
He got his initial immersion in
personnel issues as a detailer at the
Bureau of Naval Personnel between 1995
and 1998 but was chosen to command
Patrol Squadron 46 and departed for
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.
He went on to command Hawaii-
based Patrol Reconnaissance Wing 2
and Patrol and Reconnaissance Group
in Virginia before becoming assuming
administrative positions in the office of
the Chief of Naval Operations, then as
Navy Times
Admiral William F. Moran, Valley Central Class of 1977, has been nominated to serve as
Chief of Naval Operations.
Chief of Naval Personnel and VCNO. If
confirmed, Moran will be the first of
the nine aviators who became CNO who
never rose through the ranks of carrier-
based commands.
Moran, in a prepared statement, told
Navy Times that he was “honored and
deeply humbled by the nomination
and looked forward to working with
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