{"id":4524,"date":"2011-07-26T06:12:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T10:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2011-08-08T13:35:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:35:39","slug":"morning-read-essex-county-aready-wrestling-with-prop-tax-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/07\/26\/morning-read-essex-county-aready-wrestling-with-prop-tax-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Essex County aready wrestling with prop tax cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x650360422\/Essex-County-wrangles-with-property-tax-cap\">Kim Smith Dedham is reporting in the Plattsburgh Press Republican<\/a> that the freshly-minted property tax cap is creating headaches for budget-makers in Elizabethtown.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new law, Essex County can only boost taxes by a small amount next year, but contractual agreements and other fixed increases area already adding $3.4 million to the budget.<\/p>\n<p>The county is also struggling to find ways to pay for services that the state no longer wants to cover, including a visiting nurses program.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The county&#8217;s Property Tax Subcommittee asked [county manager Dan] Palmer to put everything  on the budget table: Horace Nye Nursing Home, the number of beds in the  nursing home, federal inmate housing, Sheriff&#8217;s Department overtime,  landfill operations, jobs, streetlights, the fish hatchery and union  contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor Thomas Scozzafava (R-Moriah) said the Civil  Service Employees Union for county workers has to come back in to  negotiate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Essex County&#8217;s struggles would be interesting by themselves, but this is sure to be a preview of budget battles in every county in the North Country.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x650360422\/Essex-County-wrangles-with-property-tax-cap\">Read Kim&#8217;s full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As always, your opinions welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Smith Dedham is reporting in the Plattsburgh Press Republican that the freshly-minted property tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}