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Village to vote on new budget next week Over the next ten days, the Amityville Village Board will be putting the final touches on its new spending plan for the coming year, hoping to pare down numbers they unveiled at a public hearing last week, said officials. "Right now the numbers are tentative," said Amityville Village Deputy Mayor Peter Casserly, who conducted the hearing in the absence of Mayor Peter Imbert. "The board will continue to work on them until we hold the final vote." That vote will be on the Village Board's April 23rd agenda. The meeting begins at 8 p.m. Under the current proposed plan, the Village anticipates spending approximately $12,117,160. Revenues offsetting those expenditures should amount to approximately $2.7 million, leaving a total of $9,457,885 to be raised through real property taxes. That would bring the current tax rate to $24.77, which includes a 44-cent fire department service award. The total tax rate increase is $2.22, per $100 of assessed value at the present time. Driving up costs this year is an 11 percent increase in health insurance and increases in bond interest payments as a result of the new Village Hall. "As everyone knows, we are all experiencing increases for gasoline, gas, and electric and this impacts on the Village as well," said Casserly. Built into the budget are costs associated with the retirement of two Village Police Officers. Under contractual agreement, all officers retiring from the department receive payments for unused sick and vacation time, which they are allowed to accrue. In other business: +Trustee Joe Slack reported that the water has been turned on at the beach and that Easter Services were held there. The Fire Department's Annual Easter Egg Hunt was held at Peterkin Park and new swings have been installed at the beach through a contribution from the Junior League; +Trustee Ed Johnson announced the death of Lois Moore, the wife of Gordon Moore, the Village's longtime assessor. She died in Ohio, where the couple had relocated;
+Trustee Richard Ubert reported that the Village was closely monitoring the longstanding work going on at the Sunoco and Getty gasoline stations on Merrick Road, and will be requiring that fencing around those properties be installed for public safety. The board also directed Building Inspector John Lauria to continue working with the owners to get the sites cleaned up and completed as quickly as possible. Getty has been closed since November and Ubert said that since it is a preexisting use it must be up and operating as a gasoline station again before November of this year. "Otherwise he loses that preexisting use status and cannot have a gasoline station there," said Ubert.
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