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1'lm RJ!CO~P .,-J.ANtJAR'¥9 •. ~991 . 7 ' -~ '. \ . Village Budget To. Hike Tax Rate Nickel Meter To Increase ' By Ellen Sono$ky taxes will increase by about 5 percent for Northport Village residents in 1991, even though the newly adopted budget CQntains few changes from the 1990 ver- sion. ''It's a fair budgeL With the decrease in state aid. and the town'sincrcase in the [g$\bage] tipping fee, this is as fair and equitable a budget as possible for our residents,\ Mayor Peter Nolan said in a telephone intetview on Thursday. Tbe village board adopted the $5.7- million budget by a 4-to-0 vote at its meeting last Wedl)esday after a public bearing. Mr. Nolan did not attend the meeting because of illness. · The budget, which is made up of nine categories, iucluding general· govern- ment, public safety,. transportation anil culture and recreation, calls for few sU!ff or program changes from last year. The fiscal year for ~he village begins on March 1 and ends February 29, 1992. The budget was adopted almost a month before the February 1 deadline, and according to Village Clerk Adrienne DiFranco~ tax bills will be mailed out by the end of February. Although payments are due by March 1 t property owners have until Aprill to pay without incur- ring interest or penalties, she added. Northport's new tax ·rate will be $25.46 per·$100 of assessed valuation, an increase of $1.32 over last year's rate. For the owner of property assessed at $4,800, the annual village tax bill will be $1,222, an increase of $63 over last · year's bill cf$1,159. , Two sections of the village budget, public safety and home and community services, make up more than 50 percent · of the spending plan. Public safety includes funding for the police and fire departments, traffic control, safety inspections and on-street parking, adding up to·$1.96 million for 1991. Home and community services, which includes funding for the planning and zoning boards, sanitary sewers, sewage treatment and garbage collection and dis- posal, comes to just over $1 million, with ~,000 set aside for garbage costs. When the Huntington Town Board approved its budget in October, .the garbage tipping fee was increased from $40 a ton to $80. For Northport, .the cost to dump garbage doubled from $170,000 in 1990 to $340,000 this year. In addition, the village will pay $310,250 for garbage pickup in 1991- 1992 under a contract· with Suffolk Waste Systems Inc. The village board expects to receive $907,896 in revenues during the next fiscal year, $70,000 less than last year. Although most of the rev- enue reductions are due to cuts in state aid, the board also expects to realize less revenue from safety inspection, zoning and planning board fees. uThere just isn't as much building being done in the village,\ said trustee James Hall. In addition, the 1991 Northport Village budget calls for: , em * * ~ * • Twelve new parking meters along Woodbine Avenue; •· A s .. percent pay increase for village employees and police officers. The union contracts are currently in negotiations, so the figure could change; • $3,000 for a n~w roof on the Beach Avenue property, a house owned by the village. The curreqt tenants pay the village $400a month in. tent, $4,800 annually; • $14;000 for truck rentals to include two leaf and branch pickups per month in the village during March and Aprit A collection schedule is currently being set and is expected to be available this week, according to trustee Janet Pushee. Village employees will pick up the branches, and a truck and driver will be hired from Suffolk Waste. If more pickups are needed during the summer months, the board will review the schedule. • What can you still buy for a nickel? Just about n9thing, ()lle might guess. In fact, 5 cents $till buys a parking space for one hour in Northport Vil- lage, and at the Jteight of the· summer season or on a busy Saturday; that's a bargain indeed. Not,..for long, though. The village's 1991 budget calls for replacing ihe village's 200 parking meters with new ones. The bad news is that the price will go up as well - a whopping tOO- percent incr~. It sounds bad. But it really isn't. Even with the price hike, it will cost just one thin dime to park for an hour in Northport. • Cuts Irk Planetarium Workers PLANEI'ARIIJM, CONTINUED FROM PAGIE 5 payroll plan ~-preposterous,\ noting that although the payments would be delayed, the museum would still owe the money, and it could not be counted on as revenue. Ex-staffers as well as some legislators are worried that the cuts will affect the quality of planetarium shows. Mr. Affati- gato said he worried that the cuts indicate a change in direction at the museum and a possible phasing out of the planetarium. But museum officials say the quality of programs at the planetarium will not Nissan Maxrma GXE H A be affected by the cuts, with the planetar- ium continuing to present three sky shows a y~. They said they also will step up marketing and buy shows from other institutions to cut costs. Mark Levine, exhibits director for the planetarium,. said the planetarium \cer- tainly will make the effort\ to keep pro- ducing original shows in addition to pos- sibly buying packages of tapes and slides that other planetariums produce for sale. These shows may then be customized for the Vanderbilt • ONLY 10 IN STOCK T A D • 945 E.JERICHOTPKE., HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y.11746 • 516·271 .. 7177
