Edgemont Association

Board of Education Election & School Budget Vote

Please remember to vote tomorrow!
 
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
At Edgemont High School
6am-9pm
 
For additional information, please see the District newsletter.

Town Information on Overpayment of Taxes

Supervisor Feiner has issued the below statement with regards to available funds for tax overpayments.

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The Town of Greenburgh and other large municipalities in the state have an overpayment and duplicate payment accounts. At times, overpayments of taxes occur. The town is posting a 256 page long listing of people who may be owed money on our website from 1996 to the present: www.greenburghny.com. As you will note from the message below from the Receiver of Taxes, documentation is required before a refund check will be issued. It is possible that the name on the account will not be entitled to the refund.

PAUL FEINER

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HOW DO OVERPAYMENTS HAPPEN?
There are several ways in which an overpayment can occur, ranging from the simple inversion of a number to a bank paying on a wrong account. For example, the bank believes it is paying on property located at 12 Main Street in Hastings when in fact it is paying on 12 Main Street in Tarrytown . Often at a closing or a refinance, both the title company and the bank pay the same tax. Also, if you sell your property the new deed is not placed on our records for several months and the new homeowner may be the party entitled to the refund. Even though the seller’s name still appears on the account, they may not be the party entitled to the refund. If you believe you are entitled to the refund, then I will need the following documentation to satisfy our auditors and meet the requirements of the law.

IF YOU PAID YOUR TAXES DIRECTLY TO US AT THE TIME OF THE PAYMENT IN QUESTION
If a duplicate payment was made, please submit a copy of either of the cancelled checks. If a simple overpayment was made, please submit a copy of that particular check. Please be sure to indicate in your request, that you are the person entitled to the refund.

IF YOUR BANK PAID YOUR TAXES AT THE TIME OF THE PAYMENT IN QUESTION
Please ask your bank to submit to my office a copy of the cancelled check, or provide documentation that they paid the tax either in error, or more than once on your account.They should also specify whether the funds are to be returned to your escrow account, or mailed to you directly.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact my office at 914-993-1512.

Respectfully,

David C. Dwinell
Receiver of Taxes

Shoprite at Midway Shopping Center

Get ready for the "Can-Can" sale... The Town of Greenburgh Zoning Board approved the application of Shoprite to open a supermarket at the Midway shopping center on Ardsley Road and Central Avenue. It will take over the space previously occupied by Linens-and-Things. It is expected that the new supermarket will open up in the summer of 2010.

New Fire District Web Site

The Greenville Fire District has recently launched a new web site. In addition to general information regarding the fire district, the site also comments on—and provides links related to—the proposed consolidation.

2010 Town Budget

The below statement was written and sent by Town Supervisor, Paul Feiner to all Town residents. With the 2010 Town budget affecting all of us, The Edgemont Association would like your input so we can better represent our community. Please review Mr. Feiner's statement below and leave your thoughts via the comments.

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MESSAGE FROM TOWN OF GREENBURGH SUPERVISOR, PAUL FEINER

Budget season is here. I'm working with the Town Board and Comptroller, Bart Talamani, preparing the 2010 budget. This years budget will be released a week from Friday - October 30th. It will be a difficult budget. The town has lost substantial revenues. We're down almost 8 million in ratables (due to tax grievance challenges). Our mortgage tax revenue is down by about 1.3 million. Sales tax  revenue down 12%. We're required by state law to contribute more towards the pension system (50% jump). The state now requires additional contributions to the MTA. And—that is just for starter’s.

I have been meeting with all employees to discuss the need for cuts in our spending and anticipate significant cuts will be made in 2010.  Less fund balance (savings) will be used in 2010 than it was in 2009. Fund balance has been used every year to reduce tax hikes. We have to recognize the fact that our fund balance is getting smaller and we will have no fund balance left in a few years if we use it at the levels it was used in the past.  The members of the Town Board (Sonja Brown, Diana Juettner, Kevin Morgan, Francis Sheehan & I) have been reviewing budget requests with department heads at work session meetings.   A series of meetings will be held in the community with residents, civic associations to discuss the budget cuts and budget after the budget is presented. The first community meeting will be held at the Greenburgh Library on Thursday, November 5th from 7 PM to 9 PM. If you would like to organize a community meeting on the budget please email townboard@greenburghny.com.

Town spending needs to be reduced. We need to reinvent the way government is operated. We can’t run government in 2010 as we ran it in previous years—at every level.  A Town Board created commission is currently reviewing the possible consolidation of the three paid fire districts (Hartsdale, Greenville, Fairview). In 2009 the three paid fire districts (which serve less than 73% of the entire town cost  28 million to operate. The police dept, which serves the entire unincorporated Greenburgh, cost 22 million.

I am determined to reinvent the way our government operates. The cuts that will be announced next week will be difficult but they are necessary.  If you want to call me to chat- these are my phone numbers: 993-1540 (office), 478-1219 (home), 438-1343 (cell).

PAUL FEINER