Positives in Haverstraw
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It’s pretty miraculous when you come down to it that Haverstraw is in the kind of financial shape reflected in it’s latest outside audit.
Better yet, the town quickly moved to correct the only deficiencies auditors found in the 2007 report on town fiscal health.
It’s all remarkable because of one word — Mirant.
The energy company has devastated local taxpayers and municipalities with its continuing tax assessment challenges. Never happy with a victory, they’ve now looking for another reduction of their assessments.
Haverstraw did what it could in advance of the settlement of the largest of those challenges a few years back and they’ve worked hard — as reflected in their audits and the changes they’ve made — to get through to this point.
But with Mirant always hovering like a huge storm cloud, it’s hard to imagine what the future might bring.
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on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 12:12 pm by Bob Baird.
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