NEW SCOTLAND — Payers of Voorheesville school and library taxes will save a few dollars on next year’s bill after the school board recently finalized tax rates for 2023-24.

The board approved the rates at a special Aug. 18 meeting. 

Next year, according to the district, New Scotland, Guilderland, and Berne residents of the Voorheesville Central School District will pay a “true rate” of $15.37 per $1,000, which is down 6.2 percent from the this year, and is ascertained by multiplying a property’s assessed value per $1,000 by its municipality’s equalization rate.

Meanwhile, the true tax rate paid by residents to the Voorheesville Public Library will be about 95 cents per $1,000, which is down 4.4 percent from this year. 

Residents of New Scotland, which has an equalization rate of 74 percent, are due to pay school and library taxes of about $20.77 and $1.29 of assessed value per $1,000, respectively. New Scotland’s school and library assessed tax rates are set to increase by 2.64 and 4.64 percent, respectively.

Guilderland residents, whose equalization rate is 85%, are set to pay school taxes of $18.08 per $1,000 of assessed value and library taxes of $1.12 per $1,000, which are up 0.39 and 2.35 percent, respectively.

Berne has an equalization rate of 43 percent, and its handful of Voorheesville School District residents are due to pay $35.75 per $1,000 of assessed value in school taxes, up about 9 percent, and $2.21 per $1,000 in library taxes, an increase of 11.16 percent