 | RESOLUTION NO. 116 of 2005
DATED: April 26, 2005 | |
RESOLUTION INCREASING THE CONSTITUTIONAL TAX LIMIT FOR THE COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY
| Resolution by Supervisor: | Quackenbush |
| | Seconded by: | Stagliano |
WHEREAS, Resolution 285 of 2003 established the Constitutional Tax Limit for Montgomery County to be 1.65%, and
WHEREAS, it is anticipated that the 2006 Tentative Budget will exceed the limits of the current Constitutional Tax Limit, and could require total elimination of several needed County Services to remain within the cap, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to increase said tax limitation in order to provide additional revenue to provide for said services, and
WHEREAS, the proposed increase tax limitation is 2.0%, and
WHEREAS, such a tax limitation increase is authorized by Section 233 of the County Law and can be approved by the affirmative vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the weighted votes of the Board of Supervisors, and
WHEREAS, a public hearing, which is required to be held concerning a proposal to increase Montgomery County’s Constitutional Tax Limitation was held on April 26, 2005 at 6:30pm,
RESOLVED, that the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors does hereby approve said increase in the Constitutional Tax Limitation, and
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Constitutional Real Estate Tax of the County
of Montgomery shall be increased in accordance with the State Constitution, Article VIII, Section 10, from the present limit of 1.65% to a limit of 2.00%.
RESOLUTION DEFEATED with Aye(0). (4/26/2005)
| cc: | County Clerk
County Treasurer
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| Voting Record | | Brodie | (R) | No | 139 | | Cechnicki | (D) | No | 66 | | DiMezza | (D) | No | 219 | | Dybas | (D) | No | 136 | | Jonker | (D) | No | 115 | | Mancini | (D) | No | 137 | | McMahon | (R) | No | 143 | | Paton | (R) | No | 147 | | Quackenbush | (R) | No | 158 | | Schumann | (D) | No | 139 | | Sinicropi, Jr. | (R) | No | 137 | | Stagliano | (D) | No | 96 | | Strevy | (R) | No | 103 | | Thomas | (R) | No | 84 | | Walters | (R) | No | 49 |
| | STATE OF NEW YORK County of Montgomery ss.:
This is to certify that I, the Undersigned, Clerk Of The Montgomery County Legislature, have compared the foregoing copy of resolution with the original resolution now on file in the office, and which was passed by the Montgomery County Legislature on the 26th day of April, 2005, a majority of all the members elected to the Legislature voting in favor therof, and that the same is a correct and true transcript of such original resolution and of the whole thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand and the official seal of the Montgomery County Legislature this 27th day of April, 2004
| | Totals: | Aye: | 0 | | Nay: | 1868 | |
| | Abstained: | 0 | | Absent: | 0 |
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