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GREENBURGH ISSUING NEW FULL ASSESSED VALUE AFTER YEAR OF RISING REAL ESTATE COSTS. (REAL ESTATE PRICES UP 8%)

Posted on June 4, 2022 by John Bailey

WPCNR THE LETTER TICKER. JUNE 4, 2022:

Residents of the town have started to receive their assessment letters from the Assessors office.

EVery year the Assessor sends out letters to all property owners highlighting the value of their property. Taxes are now based on property values. I asked Edye McCarthy to summarize her findings. The following is her report. Some key points: You can challenge the value by filing a grievance. That MUST BE DONE BY June 21st. Second– if your increase was less than 8% there should not be any significant impact on your taxes since most properties saw an increase in value of 8%. The phone of the Assessors office is 914-989-1520.

In 2016 the Town of Greenburgh underwent an important and much needed reassessment project. All properties were assessed at 100% of full market value. It is the goal of the Town to maintain its original investment in the 2016 project by continuing to maintain accurate property assessments at 100% of full market value. Accurate property assessments ensure property owners are apportioned their fair share of the property tax levy.

As planned, the Town just completed its annual assessment process for the 2022 assessment roll. Changes in assessments reflect market value shifts and/or physical changes due to a change in property inventory data. Property owners are asked to focus on their 2022 assessed value to determine whether this value reflects what is believed to be the current full market value of the property as of the applicable July 1, 2021 Valuation Date. We encourage you to visit the Assessor’s page on our website to view property information.

All property owners will be receiving in the mail New York State Official Change of Assessment Notice(s) for their property(ies). A change in your property’s assessment does not necessarily indicate that your taxes will change. Your tax liability will be affected by several factors, including: changes to school/county/municipal budgets, changes to assessments of other properties, changes to exemptions applicable to your property and other properties, and apportionment of school and county taxes among multiple municipal segments.

In fact, on average, most properties in the Town of Greenburgh saw an 8% increase in assessed value. If the increase in your assessed value is at or around 8%, the proportion of your tax burden will likely not change significantly, nor will your annual tax bill.

However, if you disagree with your full market value estimate, you are entitled to challenge your assessment through the Board of Assessment Review from June 1 through June 21st, 2022. Grievance applications (form RP-524) are available on our website at

https://www.greenburghny.com/171/Challenging-Your-Assessment or by calling our office.

Our office is open from 9 AM until 5 PM Monday through Friday, you can either send your Grievance in via USPS or deliver to the office. All petitions MUST be received on or before June 21 at 9PM. Please contact us directly at 914-989-1520 if you require more information regarding your 2022 tentative assessment.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO RETAIN THE SERVICES OF A TAX REPRESENTATIVE. This is a simple process, with instructions on our website. If you choose to hire a representative, please read the contract very closely!!!!!

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Posted on June 3, 2022 by John Bailey

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Posted on June 3, 2022 by John Bailey

WESTCHESTER POSITIVES ON 3,017 TESTS LAST 5 DAYS: 535, 107 A DAY –12.4% INFECTION RATE. HIGHEST SINCE MID-JANUARY. 2ND WEEK IN ROW OF REDUCED POSITIVES FOR COUNTY. POSITIVES IN COUNTY UP 398 ON JUNE 1 REPORT.

Posted on June 2, 2022 by John Bailey

WESTCHESTER 7 DAY SPREAD BY POPULATION: 391 – ON TRACK FOR CLOSE TO 3,000 INFECTIONS…

WPCNR COVID DAILY. From the New York State Covid Tracker. Observation & Analysis by John F. Bailey. June 2, 2022UPDATED 7:21 P.M. EDT:

The New York State Covid Tracker reported 349 Covid Positives in Westchester County yesterday without an explanation of any sort that the total of 349 was the cumulative positives for the last 4 days Saturday, the 28^th, Sunday the 29^th, Memorial Day the 30^th and Tuesday, May 31^st.

ON JUNE 1, the Covid Tracker reported late this afternoon, 398 testing positive Wednesday on 4,775 tested an 8.4% positve rate, bringing the county total since Sunday to 747, or 186 positives a day that would register 1,302 positive for the week if that pace continued. On Wednesday, the 9 counties surrounding Westchester reported 1,815 positive cases on June 1, yesterday, which is 73% of the 2,484 new positive cases New York City experienced Wednesday. IF the 398 level continues in that level of positives , the week total could reach 2,902 for the week by Saturday continuing the 3,000 a week pace for Westchester alone.

**WPCNR’S COVIDSTOPPERS NOTEBOOK JUST OUT FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1. The 398 infections for Westchester, if it continues for 3 days, could again bring 3,000 new infections in Westchester for the week.** **Mid-Hudson region positive percentage averaged declined to 7%, 1% is controlling of covid.**

As WPCNR reported Monday, the state in a Governor Kathy Hochul covid update on May 17^th said they would suspend reporting of test results over Memorial Weekend in this note pictured below:

**The May 17 Press Release announcing the suspension of Covid test results over Memorial Day Weekend.**

WPCNR asked the Governor’s Press Office this morning if the Tuesday results were cumulative for all 4 days, since there was no special disclaimer on the standard state format explaining it was (or was not a 4 day total covering the 28^th,29^th,30^th, 31^st total positive tests for all the counties by county.

So, assuming as the state did exactly what they said they would do, the 349 new positives for Westchester are a total of the Saturday, Sunday Monday Tuesday positive results, which as the graphic from yesterday shows 349 positives for Westchester, let’s go to see what this appears to show:

The 349 new positive test results on 3,017 tests those last 4 days yield a 12.4% infection rate.

It is a little uneasy to realize that that infection rate the last 4 days is the highest infection rates since the week of January 9^th to the 15th when we were testing 13,000 to 14,000 a day. On January 15 there were 17,534 tests with 2,171 infections (12.4%) This means that a lot more persons are spreading the disease right now than we know have it. WPCNR finds this a matter of concern.

A second way of measuring spread is the Positives per 100,000 metric that as WPCNR pointed out Monday gives a false impression of how good the counties across the state, including Westchester are doing. Last night, I broke out the state metric put out yesterday for the 9 counties surrounding New York City by total population.

Here is what I found:

MID-HUDSON AVG DAILY POS/100k 2020 POP. 7 DAY POSITIVES

WESTCHESTER 36 1,004,456 391

ORANGE 31 401,310 124

ROCKLAND 31 338,329 115

DUTCHESS 27 293,293 80

ULSTER 26 177,716 46

PUTNAM 32 97,668 32

SULLIVAN 37 78,624 29

7 COUNTIES 220 (31 avg) 2,391,396 817 (117 avg)

This means Westchester is averaging for last 7 days, 400 new positives weekly tops in the Mid-Hudson Region in spread, and each of the 7 counties including Westchester is averaging 117 new positives a week and 817 positives a week from all 7 counties combined.

It is easy to see why a positives per 100,000 calculation is more comforting for the Center for Disease Control to rely on. It has the effect of diminishing the scope of the spread across the nation and New York State over 7 days.

Down on Long Island, Nassau County and Suffolk showed these figures yesterday for previous 4 days.

AVG DAILY POS./100K 2020 POP 7 DAY POSITIVES WEEK

NASSAU 44.7 1,355,090 609

SUFFOLK 39.2 1,525,290 594

All 9 Counties combined for 2,020 new positives last week.

Take into account the figures for New York City on yesterday WPCNR COVIDSTOPPERS NOTEBOOK, and you can note that all 9 counties were counted for 1,949 new positives, compared to 2,802 for New York City.

The aberration caused by suspended counts the last 5 days has created perhaps too much of an impression that covid is over.

The numbers say otherwise.

Last week from May 15 to 21, Westchester had 3,510 infections, this week May 22 through 28, giving Saturday 87 new positives, the total for the week was 2,553 infections 27% less than last week.

We await tonight’s report.