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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Pine Bush school board to host
hearing on senior tax exemptions
By JANE ANDERSON
A public hearing is scheduled for next
Tuesday on raising the maximum income
level for senior citizens’ eligibility for
property-tax exemption in the Pine Bush
School District.
The hearing will take place at 7 p.m.
at Circleville Middle School. The Board
of Education introduced the modification
at its regular board meeting Tuesday, Feb.
9 where it also reviewed changes to the
Code of Conduct, listened to budget proposals for Operations & Maintenance and
Buildings & Grounds, and planned to discuss at a future meeting raising the rental
fees for groups to use school buildings.
The maximum income level for senior
citizens to qualify for a tax exemption is
now $22,749, a figure that was adopted in
2008. The proposed maximum is $28,999
with, as before, a sliding percentage of
taxes exempted according to income.
Penalties for reckless driving on
school property stalled the board’s plan to
move ahead on approving a revised Code
of Conduct. Board member Roseanne
Sullivan pointed out that, on a discipline
chart in the code, penalties wouldn’t be
issued on a sliding scale: loss of parking
privileges was the penalty, without specifying if it was for a month, a semester or
the entire school year.
After some discussion among the
board, Superintendent Joan Carbone said
she’d take the suggestions under advisement and offer the 40-page code for more
review at the next board meeting. She
thanked the 20-member committee that
worked on the code rev \