WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. March 2, 2006 UPDATED 8:43 A.M. E.S.T.: The White Plains City Tax Roll has sustained a $6,354,257 loss in assessment value in one year, according to Assistant Superintendent for Business of the City School District, Terrence Schruers, who reported the figure to WPCNR moments ago. Schruers said the city informed him that the new Tax Roll Assessment for 2006-2007 is $298, 326,170, down from $304,680,309 in 2004-2005. Schruers said his office was working on figuring the impact on the school budget this afternoon, but it would take considerable analysis.
Assessment Expert Concerned that City Tax Roll Will Be Down.
WPCNR CITY HALL CIRCUIT. By John F. Bailey. March 2, 2006: John Martin who reviews certiorari proceedings, possible settlements, assessment reviews as a member of the City of White Plains Board of Assessment Review told WPCNR last night he was concerned that the City Tax Assessment Roll would decline again this year. He said he thought the roll would decline by at least “7 figures” due to the $4,365,500 decline in assessment on One North Broadway/455 Hamilton Avenue property. He said that assessments for all properties had been finalized within the last week and that City Assessor Eydie McCarthy was finalizing together the roll that was scheduled to have been announced Wednesday.
Martin said he was pessimistic because the increased assessments of other properties that came up for reassessment in 2005 conducted over the last year did not meet the multi-million dollar decline the city took on the One North Broadway and 455 Hamilton Avenue office properties. Asked if reassessments of properties across the city had been stepped up, Martin said he did not think so because the Board of Assessment review had not been besieged with protests from newly assessed properties.
WPCNR also notes that two condominiums also received assessment reductions totaling an additional $367,210, between the One North Broadway-455 Hamilton assessment lowering, that is approximately $4,732,710 in lost assessments that have to be made up by increased PILOTS or assessments of other properties.
The city though requested repeatedly by WPCNR, did not release the assessment information to the CitizeNetReporter when asked for the information Wednesday.
County Executive Calls for Report on Danger Level of Indian Point Isotope Leak
WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER. From Westchester County Department of Communications. March 2, 2006: Saying
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Spano said that he has asked for a meeting on Monday with representatives of the state’s Health Department and the Department of Environmental Conservation, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Entergy, the plant’s operators, to find out what danger if any the leaks pose and what can be done to prevent more damage. Also, present will be representatives of the county’s own health and emergency services departments.
The questions about radioactive water arose Monday after Indian Point officials announced that they had detected levels of a radioactive by product from the plant called Tritium in test wells just 150 feet from the
Spano said he is particularly interested to hear from Entergy’s hydrologists about the test wells and what that can tell us about the path of the radioactive water.
Bruhn, Connecticut Talk Show Host Pioneer Posts Program Clips on The Net
WPCNR BREAKTHROUGH. From USA TV Talk/Sports. March 2, 2006 (Edited): Ridgefield, Connecticut is now enjoying video clips of public access television programs on the internet through Roxio technology that provides video clips of Ridgefield Public Forum produced at Comcast in Danbury on public access channel 23 every Tuesday at 7pm and for the world wide web. “It’s revolutionary,” Al Bruhn remarked and the mastermind behind the latest development to ” tell it like it is.”
Bruhn, America’s first longest running public access producer/host, presented the first video clip of his award winning cable TV program USA TV Talk/Sports with Al Bruhn and Justin Mazzarese on the
internet March 1 at Ridgefield Public Forum ( http://www.usatvtalk.com/ridgefieldct.html )
with a video clip of Ridgefield Board of Finance Chairman Marty Heiser talking
about the town’s pension account at http://www.usatvtalk.com/heiser.wmv following a report that First Selectman Rudy Marconi took one million dollars from the town pension account to write a police union contract. The Ridgefield Police Union later endorsed Selectman Marconi for re-election.
USA TV Talk/Sports co-director/producer Justin Mazzarese’s video clip of his latest live call-in talking about Super Bowl commercials with fellow sportsman Mack Mathieu is located at http://www.usatvtalk.com/justin.wmv Justin Mazzarese’s sports writings are posted at http://www.usatvtalk.com/justinm.html Justin Mazzarese is sports editor of Western Connecticut State University newspaper ECHO and WXCI-FM.
USA TV Talk/Sports with Al Bruhn and Justin Mazzarese is the first Ridgefield based news group
to have video clips on the internet.