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NESCONSET LIBRARY 7PM THURSDAY, February 2nd The Town Assessor & Sachem Business
Manager will explain tax IncreasesFred Gorman will discuss tax remedies & Legislator
Kennedy will discuss the lake This year’s school taxes increased
by 9.9%. Double the Sachem rate. Next
years taxes could increase by 20%. You can expect to pay double any weighted school tax estimation … Why?... because
Brookhaven home values have fallen 20% faster than Smithtown home values. According
to the Sachem Business manager budget deficits for the 2012-13 school year
equal a 10.69 percent tax rate increase. Town Assessor, Peter Johnson and Fred Gorman
are attempting to gain an equalization rate to bring our taxes in line with
Brookhaven.
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The Tax Cap
Means a
NO VOTE
Means
NO NEW
TAXES | How the school budget tax cap works
If
a school district submits a budget
that is within the cap, a simple majority vote can pass it. If
it fails, the school district may have a second vote, but if the second vote
fails, or the district chooses not to resubmit the budget, the tax levy will be frozen at the
previous year’s level.
Likewise,
if a school district submits a budget that exceeds the cap, a super majority
vote of 60% is needed for passage. If it fails, the district may have a second
vote. If the budget fails twice, or the district chooses not to resubmit, the tax levy will
be frozen at the previous year’s level |
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The
County purchased the 5.8
acre, 200 yr old Commerdinger homestead located
in the center of Lilly Pond Park . Hopefully, the
Walter S. Commerdinger Jr. pocket park w is an amazing addition
to our neighborhood. It will become home to dozens
of local
activates, a museum, Audubon tours, guided boat
tours.
If you would like a tour call 588-6161
click For
pix of The Walter S. Commerdinger Jr. Park
click For
Walter S. Commerdinger Jr. Park website
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See
the amazing 95 acre walking park around
the corner from you
click
For pixs of Nesconset's
Lilly Ponds Park
click
For 100 additional pix slide show
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The
freshwater pond called Raconkamuck ( Ronkonkoma
) served as a boundary between lands occupied by
four Indian communities: The word Raconkamuck translates
as ``the boundary fishing
place'' in the Algonquian language. For over a hundred
years oral tradition claimed that
a crossroad within Lilly Pond Park was the place that
the Nissequogue, Setauket, Secatogue and Unkechaug
Sachems met to discuss tribal matters and
disputes. Currently the NSCA is working with local
Algonquians to establish the tradition as fact.
click
to see local Algonquians greet their ancestors
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For
100 old Ronkonkoma pixs and post card slide show
click
For
Map of old Lake Pavilions, Hotels & Inns click
The
curse of Lake
Ronkonkoma
video
click
Lake
Ronkonkoma
Civic click
Lary Holzapfel's
Lake Ronkonkoma Book House click
All Geological
Studies of Lake Ronkonkoma and vicinity
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