Vol. 37, No. 13 3 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2019
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Maybrook
to see 9%
tax increase
Community-police partnership
Hope Not Handcuffs opens new chapters
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
Maybrook residents may see a 9
percent tax increase this year as the
village tries to restore its zero fund
balance.
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 same resident with a $150,000 home
will see a $190 per year increase, or $16
more per month.
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. The same
resident with a $150,000 home will see an
increase of $123 per year, or $11 a month.
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. Now, village board
members said the village has to restore
its fund balance with the tax hike.
“We have to get our fund balance back,”
trustee James Barnett said. “We have no
choice.”
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.
Maybrook Mayor Dennis Leahy said
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Hope Not Handcuffs, a community-police partnership which provides a single point of access to substance abuse treatment, recently
opened in the Crawford Police Department.
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
Hope Not Handcuffs (HNH), a
community-police partnership that
offers a single point of access to
substance abuse treatment, has opened
chapters in Walden, the Town of
Montgomery and Crawford.
Individuals suffering from substance
abuse can walk into or call any
participating police station and ask for
help through the HNH program. The
individual will go through a brief intake
process to determine if they are eligible.
Then, they will be placed into treatment
as soon as possible through a HNH
angel.
Angels are ordinary people who
undergo HNH training and volunteer to
place individuals into treatment. They
offer compassion, kindness, and respect,
as well as comfort items such as snacks,
blankets, notes, clothes, toiletries and
candy.
The program is coordinated through
the Tri-County Community Partnership
(TCCP), a community coalition centered
in Orange, Ulster and Sullivan counties
that raises awareness of the dangers of
drug, alcohol and tobacco abuse.
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SERVING CRAWFORD, GARDINER, MAYBROOK, MONTGOMERY, PINE BUSH, SHAWANGUNK, WALDEN AND WALLKILL