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"property levy" refers to a type of tax or fee that is imposed on real estate or property you own. It is a mandatory payment made by property owners to support public services like schools, roads, or local government initiatives.
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The initiative would enact a relatively
small property levy to fund a system of public campaign financing in local elections.
Astorino was first elected to the county executive post in 2009, unseating three - term incumbent Democrat Andrew Spano, pledging to curtail spending and cut taxes in a county with the
highest property levies in the state.
To this, one also needs to add the increase in the
State Property Levy Rate from $ 1.69 to $ 2.70.
That fact is probably not unrelated to the push to get the mayor to surrender his authority to raise
the property levy.