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What's wrong with this picture?
DIR By: Michael Caswell
Date: March 2, 2022, 4:32 am
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I was browsing over the Fairport Village boundary map and
noticed this little strip of land poking right into the
perimeter of the village.
It's really odd, 10 or 11 properties are exempt from paying
village taxes, yet properties on the other side of Manor Hill
Drive are paying.
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What is going on here? How are these houses not being taxed?
There must be a fairly logical answer to this, or one has to
suggest something was 'tweaked' for whatever reason.
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Re: Is it time for some FAIRPORT Village Residents to start a
Secession Movement?
DIR By: Doug K
Date: March 13, 2022, 7:49 pm
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Mike has a point, and you can read more about how a NYS Village
Boundary Line can make all the difference here
HTML https://ecna.createaforum.com/village-and-town-taxes/is-it-time-for-some-local-village-residents-to-start-a-secession-movement/msg2036/#msg2036
And if you look at the ENTIRE VILLAGE MAP of Fairport you see a
few anomalies, Village lines drawn SPECIFICALLY to include ONE
home. or to add a new housing tract to the Village Tax Roll. In
some cases it appears that residents SHOULD have been included
in the Village lines but were conveniently left out, to pay only
TWO tax bills every year. In any case the map has is filled with
"question marks and red flags".
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FYI: In NYS, most Village residents will have to pay THREE
annual tax bills. One is for that redundant local government...
run by a "mayor".. not a Town Supervisor. Another tax bill is
paid to their Town & County in February, The third Tax bill is
due each September in NY State, to pay for schools.
And like Brockport Village, that was discussed in the Forum Post
linked below... the Northeast Corner of Fairport should raise
some eyebrows. Look at how the lines seem to penalize one poor
homeowner, who got stuck within the Village Line
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Read about Brockport Village Secession Here, and how local Canal
Village Boundaries need to be UPDATED:
HTML https://ecna.createaforum.com/village-and-town-taxes/is-it-time-for-some-local-village-residents-to-start-a-secession-movement/?message=2038
Maybe WORSE than the NE corners of these two canal villages is
the weirdly shaped CURRENT southern boundary of Fairport. It
purposely divided one Street, either side, with one being in the
Town, the other in the Village.
Why? Well that's the question Mike Caswell asked.
And look at the whole border, it's obvious that this seems
driven by tax revenue, or maybe insuring that some in the Town
don't get "stuck" with a Village Tax Bill for some reason, while
their neighbors around them foot that bill.
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So what should Fairport Resident do you ask?
Start by making your VILLAGE GOVERNMENT more accountable. Ask
them why they are needed... start there.
And then start the process to MINIMIZE the footprint of the
Village of Fairport where possible.
The BEST thing would be to VOTE for a Village Dissolution or if
some aspects of the Village are needed (for NYS Canal support)
then CONSOLIDATE the best parts of the Village into the Town
Government. In the end all of the Town will be taxed the same,
and the Village services will all be moved to the Town, as
needed.
It's a SIMPLE process, and supported by NYS Lawmakers, but your
local Village Mayor won't agree... it's a power / survival thing
I'm sure.
Village Residents can start a Petition Signature process, to get
a Village Referendum up for VOTE by the People, for the people.
People sign petitions, they get submitted to the Village, and
those ideas, improvements will get put up for a Village Vote.
That how government by the people, for the people works.
The Village Boundary Referendum would be to "right-size"
Fairport Village for the 21st century, and change the Village
Boundaries to reduce the size of the Village itself. Then the
Village Government can reduce their cost to support and maintain
that smaller footprint. And if they can't, it may be time for
the Village to consider using the Government Reduction Act
process to combine their talents with the Town.
And the new Fairport Village Boundary would also mean that some
current village residents will pay NO MORE VILLAGE tax, while
increasing their Tax Rate for their Town/County bill slightly.
That increase will be offset by the huge savings they get from
NOT being trapped into Village Tax Payments because of how a
"red line" was drawn 150 years ago.
And for those who still live within the Fairport Village
Boundary, life continues as it has for the past century or so,
just the way the Local Village Leaders like it.
Here's an idea of where Fairport Village Boundaries should be
drawn, based on what service they provide, for the majority of
the Village Residents. Like most Canal Villages your location to
the CENTER of the action means you get MORE service from the
Village.
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And all of the area outlined on the map below would secede from
the Village of Fairport (and it's tax burden) and be added to
the Town of Perinton Property, Town Tax Rolls, and all services
needed would simply move to the Town and it's employees.
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All of this is possible... under the watchful eye of the
Perinton Town Government that you already pay for... why pay for
TWO governments in the same Town. Even worse, two governments
that don't get along most times and don't see "eye to eye" on
what's really best for the public they serve.
Otherwise, one of those local governments is supposed to be
creating ways to dissolve their tax burden on NY, not add to it,
like the Village of Fairport just did with the stroke of a pen,
and a quick vote called for by the Mayor of Fairport just last
week.
It's time to END REDUNDANT GOVERNMENT IN NY STATE.
So once again an Erie Canal Village, and it's residents are
faced with a decision. They will have to decide which side of
the line they want to be on... for a new Fairport Village
boundary. All we can say at the ECNA is to choose wisely.
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Re: What's wrong with this picture?
DIR By: Doug K
Date: March 14, 2022, 8:26 am
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To be PERFECTLY CLEAR about the Fairport Village Boundary Change
Proposition...
The map below shows the smaller village footprint, and ALL
properties SOUTH of Route 31 (currently part of the village)
would be moved under the jurisdiction of the Town of Perinton to
manage.
And all those homeowners would also STOP paying Fairport Village
Taxes
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