CANTON — The village police force will maintain a staff of six patrol officers after absorbing Canton Central School District’s school resource officer last year.
CANTON â Following a virtual public hearing that yielded no comments from Canton taxpayers, the village Board of Trustees unanimously passed its $6.6 million preliminary budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year beginning June 1.
Village residents will see a tax rate decrease of one cent per $1,000 of assessed property value â to $10.45 per $1,000 â which represents a roughly 0.14% change from last year. The tax levy, which reflects the revenue the village will collect on its tax rate, will increase by 1.2%. The preliminary budget figures keep the village under the stateâs 2021 tax levy cap of 1.31% for bodies with June 1 to May 31 fiscal years.
Village Clerk and Treasurer Sally L. Noble, working with Mayor Michael E. Dalton, village officials, department heads and the villageâs contract agencies, presented the $6,605,835 draft budget to the board during a virtual workshop at the end of March. Additional public sessions culminated in the preliminary document prese
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CANTON â The tri-county region is preparing for the upcoming election season, highlighting women who have broken barriers in local government and how they are encouraging others to pursue the same path â to run for office and make a difference in their communities.
Women are achieving record numbers of representation in politics, but despite these strides, women still hold only 39% of local government seats, according to government data reported by Represent Women.
The upcoming election season, with primary elections on June 22 and Election Day on Nov. 2, will feature roughly 300 elections in Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties.
In 2008, 33% of people who ran for local government positions in Jefferson County were women, while in 2019, 40% of those who ran were women. Likewise, in 2003, 237 candidates ran for local government in St. Lawrence County, but only 27% of them were women. Nearly 16 years later in 2019, 33% of the candidates were women.