On March 18, Mayor Kerry Dineen, trustees John Scally and Sandra Serafino, and Justice James Greene each received new four-year terms, but most saw unforeseen opposition.
Guilderland in its letter states “that the FEAF and Draft Concept Plan are deficient and incomplete, and do not allow for a proper consideration of the significant and permanent environmental impacts that would arise from the construction of a temporary 750-space parking lot.”
Site work is slated to begin soon on approximately 28 acres along Western Avenue to make way for Costco as well as a 105,000-square-foot regional cancer center between the price club and Hilton hotel.
The village property tax rate would increase three-quarters of 1 percent next year, from about $1.36 per $1,000 of assessed value this year to approximately $1.37 per $1,000 next year.
“We have felt some effects from the new administration down in Washington,” Albany County development chief Kevin O’Connor said during a March 4 meeting of the county’s IDA.
The $614 million facility sits on a 72.5 acre site and is part of the state and semiconductor industry’s $10 billion investment in semiconductor research at the University at Albany.
The district’s proposed $34.5 million spending plan includes a 6.05 percent increase in the tax levy, nearly the maximum allowed by the state, 6.4 percent.
