City Council appoints 5 permanent members who serve 5 year terms. Additional 1 year appointees assist in filling out BAR panels that conduct hearings. Only City residents may serve on the BAR, and typically have a background in real estate market valuation (such as Realtors, Brokers, and Appraisers) and or have a familiarity with financing. The Assessor, Assessment Staff, and City / County Government Officials cannot serve on the BAR thus ensuring independence and impartiality when hearing property owner petitions. BAR members receive compensation for hours served.
Page Date Recorded Sale Price Lot Size 1704 155 3/1/2005 30 x 88 sq ft Transfer Conditions Buyer=seller Notes Sale Price = 0 Owners Frank F Gilmore 7WashingtonAve Schenectady, NY 12305 Mary D'Alessandro 7WashingtonAve Schenectady, NY 12305
Page Date Recorded Sale Price Lot Size 1704 155 3/1/2005 30 x 88 sq ft Transfer Conditions Buyer=seller Notes Sale Price = 0 Owners Frank F Gilmore 7WashingtonAve Schenectady, NY 12305 Mary D'Alessandro 7WashingtonAve Schenectady, NY 12305
provides an increased benefit for the primary residences of senior citizens (age 65 and older) with qualifying incomes exempts the first $64,200 of the full value of a home from school taxes as of 2014-15 school tax bills (up from $63,300 in 2013-14)
So they are income qualified?
And Washington Ave is their primary residence?
Sounds like the assessment board gave them the benefit of the doubt.
Yup for 2013 one house had enhanced STAR the other basic STAR.
When you fill out your STAR application one of the questions is Do you or your spouse own any other property that is currently receiving the STAR exemption?
The Law allows individual homeowners to receive a STAR exemption on only their primary residence, so no homeowner should receive more than one exemption. When we reviewed 2010 STAR exemption data obtained from ORPTS, we found that, for a large number of parcels (approximately 87,000), the taxpayer’s mailing address was the same for more than one parcel, and sometimes for many parcels. The existence of such a large number of duplicate mailing addresses indicated an increased risk that local assessors were granting some STAR exemptions that were duplicate (more than one to each homeowner) or improper (e.g., granted to corporations or other non-eligible entities). Therefore, we tested to determine how many of these potentially problematic STAR exemptions were, in fact, actual duplicate or improper exemptions.
In a December 2012 media report,12 State officials acknowledged “rampant double-dipping and abuses in the STAR system.”
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12 Two STARS for Proctor’s CEO, Times Union, Albany, N.Y., December 4, 2012
Remember the TU article on P. Morris having two STAR exemptions, well he still has STAR on his house in Rotterdam even though state law says
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•Misstatement on an application prior to October 1, 2013 ◦$100 penalty (fee goes to assessing unit) ◦Payback up to 3 years of inappropriately received benefits plus interes ◦Disqualification for any STAR exemption for 5 years
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