Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Action taken after borough solicitor recommends waiting for results of property value appeals.
The Baldwin Borough Council has pulled its municipality's 2013 budget off of the shelves. After having made the budget available for public review over the past seven days, the borough council acted on the advice of its solicitor on Tuesday night and rescinded public review until the budget's final millage rate (local real estate taxes) can be set. The council's vote was 7-0. Solicitor Stanley B. Lederman made the recommendation in light of a recent decision by Allegheny County Judge R. Stanton Wettick to allow municipal leaders until Jan. 31 to set their communities' 2013 millage rates. Wettick is also giving county officials until Dec. 21 to finish making decisions on property value appeals—including ones from Baldwin Borough property …
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
If eventually put into place, taxes could go up by more than 2.2 percent.
Baldwin-Whitehall School District officials will apply for referendum exceptions that will allow them to raise the district millage rate, without voter approval, by more than 2.2 percent. In other words, for the 2012-13 school year, without successfully applying for those exceptions, the B-W School Board could not raise taxes more than 2.2 percent unless it received a referendum, or public vote, of yes. (Until Wednesday night, district officials had been reporting their 2012-13 non-referendum ceiling as 1.8 percent, but school board President John B. Schmotzer explained that the ceiling was pushed to 2.2 after Allegheny County Judge R. Stanton Wettick ordered on Jan. 12 that the county will use 2011 assessment numbers this year.) …
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Judge Wettick ruled that new property assessments wouldn't go into effect until 2013.
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Allegheny County residents will be taxed on their 2002 property assessments for another year. During a hearing on Thursday, Allegheny County Judge R. Stanton Wettick ruled that newly issued property assessments would be implemented in 2013 instead of this year. Wettick ordered that residents of the City of Pittsburgh and Mt. Oliver Borough—which already received new assessment values—are permitted to use the 2011 assessment (same as 2002's) for the purpose of setting their budgets and levying taxes for 2012. Wettick also provided that the 2012 reassessment values be used for the 2013 tax year for those taxing bodies. According to a press release issued by the office of County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, Wettick stated that the court would …
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Judge R. Stanton Wettick made the order on Tuesday.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Allegheny County Judge R. Stanton Wettick has ordered county residents to abide by new property reassessments and county officials to continue working on the process. On Tuesday, Wettick said that residents who have already received new assessments must abide by them, despite last week's declaration by County Executive Rich Fitzgerald that the numbers were "null and void." According to WPXI, Wettick decided not to hold Fitzgerald in contempt of court, but Wettick said that he would hold county officials in contempt if they do not move forward with the reassessment process. On Wednesday, Wettick is scheduled to vote on a request from the Pittsburgh City Council to delay using the values for another year, according to WPXI. “This order is …
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Fontana plans legislation to make the system more uniform.
State Sen. Wayne Fontana, who represents Baldwin Township, has asked Allegheny County Judge R. Stanton Wettick to delay the implementation of the county's property reassessment process, according to an article posted on Fontana's website on Tuesday. According to the article, Fontana is in the process of writing legislation—Senate Bill 1280—that would change Pennsylvania's current reassessment system to one that is uniform. The full article and letter to Judge Wettick is available here. Fontana plans to further discuss the reassessment situation in a Wednesday morning column on the Dormont-Brookline Patch, said Keith Wehner, of Fontana's office. Fontana also represents Dormont Borough and Brookline (a Pittsburgh neighborhood), among other …
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