Community prepares for South Nyack Village to dissolve after majority vote
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Dec 20, 2020, 5:12pm EST
The South Nyack community is preparing for what comes next after a majority of residents voted to dissolve village last week.
South Nyack doesn’t have many of the staples you typically think of in a village. There’s no downtown or commercial shops of any kind.
This means the village solely runs on property taxes. Since the village has financially struggled, property taxes increased by 6.7% last year. On top of that, residents also paid Orangetown taxes since they re a village in the town.
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By: Jennifer Korn
On Thursday Dec 17, South Nyack residents will be asked to vote on a referendum that could result in their village being reabsorbed into Orangetown.
After the petition to hold the referendum was filed, the South Nyack Village Board hired CGR, a consulting company, to prepare a report that highlights the impacts of the potential dissolution. The report projects that residents will pay less in property taxes, all village positions will be eliminated, and residents would have a less direct role in town government affairs.
The full dissolution impact report is available at www.cgr.org/southnyack.
Some residents support dissolving the village in order to lower taxes, while others are skeptical about the projected revenue and fear a loss of political autonomy.