Archive for April, 2009

Kean Pledges to Seek Aid for Loch Arbour Tax Dilemma

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

By DON STINE
Sen. Sean Kean told Loch Arbour residents last week that he is going directly to Gov. Jon S. Corzine to seek relief from a $1.3 million increase in the village’s annual school tax bill.

“I am trying to do everything in my power to have a positive outcome to this,” Kean told residents at last Wednesday’s standing-room-only Board of Trustees meeting.

Kean said he will try to persuade the state Legislature to phase-in the $1.3 million increase over a period of years rather than have the village burdened by the entire increase in just one year. (more…)