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Don’t want to battle for City Council? Listen to grievances
March 27, 2012 at 1:11 pm by Lauren Stanforth, Staff writer


Schenectady City Council President Denise Brucker has recommended three people to be on the city’s Board of Assessment Review, a thankless job that entails listening to hundreds of grievances about property values each year. And one of those people is John Mootooveren, the man who last week pulled out of a Democratic primary for Gary McCarthy’s vacant Council seat.

It could be that Mootooveren still wants to serve, even if he won’t run this year for City Council in a competitive race with Marion Porterfield. But Board of Assessment Review? One could argue that’s one of the most selfless jobs of all, particularly in a city where real estate values have decreased since the citywide reassessment a few years ago.

What have I been saying??????     

City assessments are way too high.

Asking prices for houses go through reduction after reduction, well below what the city claims the houses are worth (assessed value = market value in municipalities that assess at 100% value which Schenectady does.

Actual sale prices below what the city claims the houses are worth (via assessment values)

GCAR figures monthly reports showing plummeting property values.

And now this story that says what?????   What is highlighted in red   above?????    What have I been saying???

Just more EVIDENCE of the TRUTH, the FACTS.   And the cheerleaders cannot provide one shred, NOT EVEN ONE TEENY WEENY SHRED OF EVIDENCE to counter these statements!!!!!!   Heck, one cheerleader has vanished completely after claiming that GCAR said property values were going up---remember, he did a copy and paste job from a lowly newspaper worker, yet could not provide anything at all DIRECT from GCAR.   He has left these boards in total embarrassment.  

And the other cheerleaders spew their babble or write obscentities.

In order to build up the city, the bad things such as the plummeting property values must be acknowledged, publicized, and addressed.  And that includes the crime, the continual reduction of city services, the ever increasing taxes (an insuring that ALL homeonwers know that they pay almost the highest property & school taxes in the whole country), the theft from homeonwers to cover the property & school taxes of the totally TAX EXEMPT downtown properties/businesses--largely owned by millionaires and billionaires, etc.

The city CANNOT improve if all the bad stuff is swept under a rug pretenting it doesn't exist while catering to the well-heeled and politically connected.

The city MUST conduct another reassessment.    

However, all this said, a reassessment will NOT result in a reduction of taxes.  it will only result in a change in the tax RATE which will in turn, result in the same high tax BILLS.    

The FIRST and BEST thing that WILL result in reduction of tax BILLS to the homeowners is to eliminate all the tax exemptions on downtown properties!!


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This will be interesting



What have I been saying??????     

City assessments are way too high.

Asking prices for houses go through reduction after reduction, well below what the city claims the houses are worth (assessed value = market value in municipalities that assess at 100% value which Schenectady does.

Actual sale prices below what the city claims the houses are worth (via assessment values)

GCAR figures monthly reports showing plummeting property values.

And now this story that says what?????   What is highlighted in red   above?????    What have I been saying???

Just more EVIDENCE of the TRUTH, the FACTS.   And the cheerleaders cannot provide one shred, NOT EVEN ONE TEENY WEENY SHRED OF EVIDENCE to counter these statements!!!!!!   Heck, one cheerleader has vanished completely after claiming that GCAR said property values were going up---remember, he did a copy and paste job from a lowly newspaper worker, yet could not provide anything at all DIRECT from GCAR.   He has left these boards in total embarrassment.  

And the other cheerleaders spew their babble or write obscentities.

In order to build up the city, the bad things such as the plummeting property values must be acknowledged, publicized, and addressed.  And that includes the crime, the continual reduction of city services, the ever increasing taxes (an insuring that ALL homeonwers know that they pay almost the highest property & school taxes in the whole country), the theft from homeonwers to cover the property & school taxes of the totally TAX EXEMPT downtown properties/businesses--largely owned by millionaires and billionaires, etc.

The city CANNOT improve if all the bad stuff is swept under a rug pretenting it doesn't exist while catering to the well-heeled and politically connected.

The city MUST conduct another reassessment.    

However, all this said, a reassessment will NOT result in a reduction of taxes.  it will only result in a change in the tax RATE which will in turn, result in the same high tax BILLS.    

The FIRST and BEST thing that WILL result in reduction of tax BILLS to the homeowners is to eliminate all the tax exemptions on downtown properties!!


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MC1 - If the Water Sewer and Garbage Fees arent Taxes - Then can they legally be exempt from paying for the water and sewer.  For example does Proctors or Bombers pay for water and sewer?