2019 Tentative Budget for the Town of West Seneca

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

2019 TENTATIVE BENEFIT BASIS BUDGET & 2019 TENTATIVE AD VALOREM BUDGET

Notice is hereby given that the tentative 2019 Benefit Basis Budget and tentative 2019 Ad Valorem Budget of the Town of West Seneca for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2019 have been completed and filed in the office of the Town Clerk at the Town Hall, 1250 Union Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, where copies are available for inspection by any interested person at all reasonable hours.

Further notice is hereby given that the Town Board of the Town of West Seneca will meet and review said budgets and hold a public hearing thereon at West Seneca West Senior High School Auditorium, 3330 Seneca Street, West Seneca, NY 14224, at 6:00 P.M. EST on the 15th day of October 2018 and at such hearings any person may be heard in favor or against said budgets as compiled or for or against any items therein contained.

See: http://www.westseneca.net/news-and-e...dget#gsc.tab=0

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Here is my initial analysis:

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From: https://buffalonews.com/2018/10/09/w...e-2019-budget/

Next year's tentative West Seneca budget would increase taxes about 4 percent, half of the tax rate increase in this year's budget that sparked bitter budget meetings last fall.

And there are no increases for the supervisor and Town Board members included in this budget, after Supervisor Sheila Meegan proposed a 29 percent pay increase for herself two years ago. She ended up getting a 14 percent increase in her base salary that year.

"I feel very good about the budget. Fixed costs are what they are, and they are increasing," Meegan said.

The budget maintains all services, Meegan said in her budget letter.

But there are some economic issues. Interest earnings "are virtually nonexistent," and there are just slight increases in sales taxes, she said.