Conard: Inequitable Increase in Taxes for some Cohocton Property Owners

"When you get your Cohocton School bill this month, the increase in assessment will illustrate that the Zigenfus administration has systematically and arbitrarily raised the property value of owners that need to be punished. If your tax mailing address is out of Cohocton, or if you moved into this town, you qualify for that other infamous message. “If you don’t like the way Cohocton is run – “GET OUT OF TOWN’ ”. The penalty for being a non participating landowner is to have the assessors jack up your assessment. Your reward is to shell out more than your reasonable part, while favored families avoid paying their fair share. Is that evenhanded to Cohocton village or Atlanta hamlet residents?

The housing market has crashed. Prices are headed down and properties are losing value. But the incumbent assessors approved a hefty increase upon indifferent property owners or select troublemakers. Just wait till the actual dollar rates jump in order to pay for the mismanagement of Cohocton government."

--- Rebecca Conard, candidate for Cohocton Town Assessor