E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center for Public Policy, will join top municipal leaders Thursday, July 17, as the featured speaker at the Southern Westchester Summit of the Westchester County Homeowners’ Coalition. The event begins at 7 pm at the Wartburg Conference Center in Mount Vernon. Click here to register.
McMahon, a leading proponent of New York’s three-year-old property tax cap, will present insights into the fiscal challenges facing New York localities and offer solutions for the local officials who must now operate their municipalities within the parameters of the tax cap.
Responding to McMahon’s presentation will be a panel of local officials, including Mayor Ernest Davis (Mount Vernon), Mayor Noam Bramson (New Rochelle), Mayor Randy Sellier (Pelham Manor), Mayor Anne McAndrews (Larchmont), City Manager Al Gatta (Scarsdale) and Village Trustee Chris Reim (Pelham).
“New York has taken an important first step in capping property taxes. Elected officials and policymakers now have to turn their attention to the cost-drivers that have given New York the highest property taxes in the nation,” said McMahon.
The Empire Center is an independent, non-partisan, 501(c)3 think tank based in Albany. Its mission is to make New York a better place to live and work by promoting public policy reforms grounded in free-market principles, personal responsibility, and the ideals of effective and accountable government. For more information about the Empire Center, visit www.empirecenter.org.
The Wartburg Conference Center is located at 1 Wartburg Place in Mount Vernon.
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