MID-HUDSON – While cities like Newburgh have raised their property
taxes to cover their 2017 budgets, others appear to be doing financially
much better.
The City of Beacon is expected to approve its budget tonight with a tax
decrease and in Kingston the common council will approve its budget for
next year, the first spending plan developed by Mayor Steven Noble.
“It’s one of the first budgets we have had in a long time
that actually reduces property taxes in the city and leaves the tax levy
the same; especially since we have been able to reduce the non-homestead
or the commercial tax rate, but a percent,” he said.
The Middletown Common Council approved that city’s budget last
month with a one-third of one percent increase in the tax levy.
