Budget Message from Supervisor Smith

Perinton's budget shows a negligible increase for 2012, remaining the third-lowest town tax rate in the County. Perinton provides basic services to our residents: snow plowing, road maintenance, weekly yard debris pickup, outstanding parks, excellent recreation offerings and courteous, timely service from our administrative staff at Town Hall. Our services will continue to represent an outstanding value to our residents. The average homeowner pays us only $370 per year in property taxes for all that they receive.

The tax rate for properties in the Village will increase only two cents, from $1.51 to $1.53 and for those outside the Village, only seven cents, from $1.96 to $2.03.

This budget is primarily impacted by outside influences – increased billings and decreased payments from Albany. Costs for the State employee retirement system have gone up over $600,000 in the past three years while Albany has cut revenues to the Town by over $100,000 in just the past two years. Holding the line on taxes while Albany continues passing on unfunded mandates to localities has been a pretty tough job. Without these impacts from Albany, we would have been looking at a zero increase budget.

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