I would like to introduce myself to those who may not know me or that I have not meet yet. I am on the Republican primary ballot for a Town Council seat in Cape Vincent.
I was born and raised in the Cape. After graduating from TI High School, I moved to the Midwest for school and then traveled the country doing contracting work. The last seven years, I was in the southeast Florida region managing a large contracting firm. Continue...Watertown Times
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"The taxes in this town need to be brought under control after the 100 percent assessment that took place this year. As it stands, most people’s taxes will double."
I wonder if Mr. Wood understands what he is saying here and whether he has his facts right.
If a new assessment were to increase the value of every home 100% [doubling it], it would have no impact on taxes, because the new assessment would require computation of a new tax rate, which would theoretically be one-half if assessments doubled.
For the average tax payer, tax bills increase when governments spend more money. Town of Cape Vincent expenditures have been pretty consistent so most peoples taxes will NOT double. I don't know where Mr Wood got the figures to tell us "most taxes will double." That would be a good question to ask him.
Furthermore, only about a nickel of every local tax dollar is attributable to the town - school and county taxes are the major components of property taxes. Mr. Wood conveniently forgot to mention this point.
Yup!
my taxes went down this year .
So did mine...while my assessment went up. J.Wood doesn't understand the taxing structure.
I think what he is talking about with taxes is vacant land.
Vacant land most of which is in the wind overlay district was assessed for around 200 per acre which was well below state recommendations and other communities which was around a 1000 or more.
Voters for Wind were crying that the value of land in the wind district was going to soar. The recent reval which was requested by the former pro wind board has brought the vacant land up to a more reasonable 800 per acre or so.
So, finally, there are some pro wind welfare queens who are now paying their fair share while finally the taxes go down for others who up to now were giving them a ride on the subsidy horse.
"managing a large construction firm" gimme a break, this is false representation.
He oversaw three kids installing windows, sold at The Home Depot.
"Candidate wants to see cape Vincent prosper"
more like he wants to see his uncles and cousins prosper with wind leases and production payments.
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