If our county is to continue to grow we must reduce the costs that truly make us non-competitive: school, fire and other special district taxes. (www2.erie.gov)
So I say to Governor Cuomo and the members of the Assembly and Senate: if you make the shared services panels permanent you must include school, fire and other special districts on it as well. (www2.erie.gov)
County taxes represent a fraction of the total property tax burden that also includes revenue for schools, cities, towns, villages, and fire and other special districts. (empirecenter.org)