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benny salami
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Quote of the month from Mayor McCheese in today's TU! "We're not in as bad shape as some people say. We're an urban City {sic} in Upstate New York. We're not in good shape". What is he talking about? More double talk from the DEM moron "leader'. The City is in fiscal free fall from 37 straight years of City Council mismanagement and dereliction of duty. Deficit? What deficit? Even the Gazetto has now put away the pom-poms. Everything Roger Hull predicted has come true. Call in the State Control Board and Bankruptcy Court.
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"SCHENECTADY — The city has so far convinced the owners of 131 properties to pay back their taxes after threatening them with foreclosure on Aug. 31.

But city officials would like the number to be larger, considering there are 693 properties on the foreclosure list. But many of the owners could not be found, have disputed the amount owed or have declared bankruptcy – meaning the city must provide more time before moving forward with legal proceedings.

City Attorney John Polster said Wednesday he didn't know how much money has flowed into city coffers as a result of the foreclosure threat, which targets owners who owe property taxes or water, sewer or garbage fees from 2008 and 2009. But calculating the total based on the $16,000 average owed per property means the city has hit a windfall of up to $2.1 million.

The revenue is sorely needed now that the city has almost no money in its unrestricted reserves to help balance the 2013 budget.

Mayor Gary McCarthy said targeting tax delinquency is key now that the city's what is called "uncollectibility" has jumped from 4 percent in 2009 to 12 percent today.

"We've got to get away from people who were thumbing their nose at the system and not paying," McCarthy said.

City officials are conducting their first foreclosures since 2003. Between 2004 and 2010, Schenectady was selling the right to collect on its tax delinquencies to American Tax Funding of Jupiter, Fla., and therefore had no authority to foreclose on those liens.

On Aug. 31, Polster will appear in state Supreme Court in Schenectady to foreclose on 237 properties on the list as of Wednesday. In those cases, the owners have not responded to the city's foreclosure notices.

Property owners who miss that deadline have until the end of September to get their property back by paying a $1,000 penalty in addition to the back taxes.

The status of the other properties is: 46 are involved in bankruptcy proceedings; 20 owner-occupied homes have filed for a homesteader exemption and have another year to pay their bills; 40 property owners are disputing the amount owed; 214 properties have liens that are also held by American Tax Funding and must be dealt with separately, and 266 properties the city can not find the owners of had to post foreclosure notices at the addresses. These numbers add up to more than the total 693 properties on the foreclosure list because some of them and their situations overlap.

Next month, many of those 266 seemingly abandoned properties, including numerous vacant lots, might be foreclosed on after enough time has been given for the signs to be posted.

Also in September, the city will begin foreclosure proceedings on those who have not paid property taxes or water, sewer and garbage fees from 2010-11. That number, which is separate from those who owed taxes from 2008-09, stands at about 1,100 properties. The property owners on that list will have until March to pay the bill.

In the meantime, the city's law office has been inundated with calls from owners asking how they can save their properties. Polster's answer, and that of his staff, has been a simple one: pay the bill."

lstanforth@timesunion.com • 518-454-5697

Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/City-tax-scofflaws-paying-up-3808025.php#ixzz24NCW8jI5


Yep Benny. McCheesy getting mad at those non-paying tax people....but how about Marcella, Mallozi, Bombers, Morris, the hair school??? All those non-paying FOR PROFIT entities the City provides many services for like lighting, plowing, garbage, water, police.

These people aren't thumbing their noses at the City, they're actually giving us the middle finger.
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benny salami
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The curtains have open in Oz aka McCheeseville. No one is running the store. No plan-no problemo. At least $10 MILLION in the red with only $75,000 in reserves. That's less than 1% of the City budget. Audit! Audit! Bankruptcy! Bankruptcy! Had enough-YET?
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the end is near


"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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Quoted from GrahamBonnet
the end is near


Everyone on Talk 1300 including Liz Bishop was laughing at this clueless McCheese ans his DEM morons. It would be one thing if he tried to do something but he continues to lie, to minimize while 700 homes are being foreclosed for not paying insane DEM City/County taxes. Not one of the City Council people have offered a plan to cut anything. A 10% across the Board cut, cut half the nonprofits getting City money, end the phone and free car plan, County takeover of Planning and Central Parks. NOTHING. Zero, zilch. Call the Federal bankruptcy court and appoint a receiver.
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HOPE and dreaming of creative ways to SUCCEED and build our City UP -- trumps beating DOWN our wonderful City any day.


"Return the Democratic Party to it's Pro-Life roots and remove control of it from the Neo-Liberals!


I am as awesome as a man can be, especially when I am passionate about something.

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Some are probably the persistent delinquents like the Popolizios - I'll bet a million to one that he doesn't lose his properties - and these are the ones that need to have their properties taken

But there are homeowners who are struggling, who try to pay their taxes and those are the ones that really will suffer, losing their homes, and DV still cheers for making the homeowners pay for the taxes of the downtown millionaires and politically connected.

Dv won't respond to this thread - he is speechless when it comes to the proof staring him in the face that families who worked hard and struggled to support their families will lose their homes because of inability to pay the taxes.   Oh yeah, I can hear it now "people are losing their homes all over....bad economy, etc. etc."    But let's see if DV says he he believe it is proper for the city dems to make the homeowners pay the taxes of the downtown businesses, the businesses owned by millionaires and politically connected.





Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent.  
Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and
speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
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Quoted from Glryinthhighest
HOPE and dreaming of creative ways to SUCCEED and build our City UP -- trumps beating DOWN our wonderful City any day.



Do you believe it is proper for the dems to force the homeowners to pay the taxes of the downtown millionaires and politically connected even if it mean the homeowners lose their homes?????


Well Glry???????    Can you answer that??????








Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent.  
Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and
speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
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he just changed out of his dress and into his rubber diaper


"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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