The Buffalo News reported that the assessment grievances have been heard and adjustment decisions will be made by this Friday:
The city’s Board of Assessment Review will convene behind closed doors Monday night to begin the process of adjusting assessments, after conducting more than 250 hearings over three days last week.
A lot of the "pain" and litigation would be removed if the city created a taxation system that charged more for use and rewarded investment. Basing it off of mostly arbitrary valuations causes only frustration and anger from property owners and assures our slow slide downward as any investment is quickly punished for higher taxes.
In all, more than 350 grievances were filed during Lockport’s first citywide reassessment in 10 years. Not all of those who filed requested live hearings, City Assessor Joseph Macaluso said.
Macaluso said the legal deadline for the five-member board to complete its work is Friday. “I’m sure we’re going to have some further litigation [after that],” he added...
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Well I just recieved my denial letter to get my assessment lowered. The letter cited a lack of information given, I guess 12 comps. from my street and 2 others wasn't enough. Court here I come...... I'm being punished for keeping my property looking "good", time to let the front of the house fall into disrepair I will applogize to my neighbors in advance.
Maybe when we get a new Major who knows what he's doing, the city will figure out a way to reward the people that improve their property and punish the people who neglect theirs!
I doubt it. I have yet to see any of those running propose any such plan.
Maybe it's too early..but don't ya think it's about time someone addresses the issue?
There are a lot of issues and the time was decades ago. Most involve additional sacrifices and big change. The types of things that bring out the fear mongers and attack ad. Most politicians are smart to say the last possible with the least amount of detail. All it becomes is ammo to be fired back at them instead of intelligent discussions of the issues/ideas.
My nextdoor neighbors assessment went down $5,000 and mine went yo $10,000, we have the same house.......WTF.........
no one wants to be penalized for making their property look better. The "smart" politician will find a way.
Does that mean there had not been "a smart politician" in WNY ever or is there a tax structure around that is not purely based on assessment?
"My nextdoor neighbors assessment went down $5,000 and mine went yo $10,000, we have the same house.......WTF........."
You must not know the right people! That is how it is in a socialist nanny state; you are a peon, unless you know the right people.
It was a private firm. Who was there to know?
In case of the side by side houses, what were the starting assessments of each?
" a socialist nanny state" You've been watching Fox News for too long...
It's a big conspiracy to take over the World..and it's starting right here...in Lockport with a socialist-Marxist organized assessment of your property.
It you didn't sound so ridiculous, it would be funny.
We were within a $1000 of each other for our previous assessment..
Thank you for following up and the information. Did you go and challenge it?
Yes, it wasn't lowered so now its time for court.
"It was a private firm. Who was there to know?
In case of the side by side houses, what were the starting assessments of each?"-MJ
So, just what do we pay the City of Lockport Assessor for, and just what does he do?
"" a socialist nanny state" You've been watching Fox News for too long...
It's a big conspiracy to take over the World..and it's starting right here...in Lockport with a socialist-Marxist organized assessment of your property.
It you didn't sound so ridiculous, it would be funny."-G.I. Joe
I guess you haven't noticed how heavy handed government in America has been getting lately, especially sin 9/11/01. Any tin pot political appointee or elected servant of the peole seems to have delusions of grandeur, or, at the very least, delusions of being in Hitler's SS, as in the case of TSA agents.
no..... I haven't noticed...but it's nothing new..Government is the same as it's always been. It's the amount of paranoia that's changed.
Jim...relax, there isn't even a military draft!
I hear Rupert Murdoch calling your name...
Stand down solider....
"" a socialist nanny state" You've been watching Fox News for too long...
It's a big conspiracy to take over the World..and it's starting right here...in Lockport with a socialist-Marxist organized assessment of your property.
It you didn't sound so ridiculous, it would be funny."-G.I. Joe
I guess you haven't noticed how heavy handed government in America has been getting lately, especially since 9/11/01. Any tin pot political appointee or elected servant of the people seems to have delusions of grandeur, or, at the very least, delusions of being in Hitler's SS, as in the case of TSA agents.
I'm too lazy to research everything, but as I recall the city has had a hard time keeping assessors as of the past few years. It is part of what has delayed the reassessment for around 4 years I believe. It has started and stopped. I'm not even sure we have one right now.
There is no way one would be able to go through the whole city anyways as everything was a decade out of date.
The current talk is to share an assessor with the town. I believe it makes sense to contract out large inventory re-evaluations as why would want to pay extra people the rest of the time?
"You must not know the right people! That is how it is in a socialist nanny state; you are a peon, unless you know the right people."
Isn't that pretty much how it is in any human relationship/ran endeavor? I don't think a democratic, socialist, dictatorship, monarchy, etc would have any relevance to that point.
According to that Buffalo News article, cited above, Joseph Macaluso is the City of Lockport's Assessor.
"In all, more than 350 grievances were filed during Lockport’s first citywide reassessment in 10 years. Not all of those who filed requested live hearings, City Assessor Joseph Macaluso said.
Macaluso said the legal deadline for the five-member board to complete its work is Friday. “I’m sure we’re going to have some further litigation [after that],” he added..."-Buffalo News
""You must not know the right people! That is how it is in a socialist nanny state; you are a peon, unless you know the right people."
Isn't that pretty much how it is in any human relationship/ran endeavor? I don't think a democratic, socialist, dictatorship, monarchy, etc would have any relevance to that point."-MJ
The problem is that America was founded as a nation of laws, not of cronyism and nepotism. Of course, sadly, America isn't what it once was, for the past few decades...a great nation, a city set on a hill, a beacon, a model for the rest of the world!
Thanks on the above Assessor. I missed the obvious. Will still submit that one person could not have done the whole reevaluation.
As for Jim, I'll bet you even back then it was the same. You don't overcome 10,000 years of human existence. I'm as nostalgic as they come but insert some reality.
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