The village board voted to void the 2016 revaluation and we officially won this fight. Thank you to everyone who signed and stayed active throughout this process. Keep watching the upcoming budget meetings to ensure the new assessment model stays transparent.
July 4, 2016
Final supporters
If you believe the Scarsdale Village should void the 2016 Revaluation, because it is based on a flawed model and opaque process, please sign this petition. Please leave your name and address in the comment section and share with your neighbors.
Thank you!
Updates
June 13, 2016
The village board continues to ignore our requests for transparency regarding this flawed property assessment model. Send an email to your representative today demanding that they void the results and start over. We need to keep the pressure on until they acknowledge the broken process.
June 13, 2016
The momentum behind this effort has reached a level that the village board can no longer choose to ignore. Text your neighbors today to link them to this page and email your representatives to demand a transparent process before another day passes.
Reached 100 supporters
June 13, 2016
94 Comments
The assessed values is supposed to be as of July 2015. If the model is valid, why do we see a house sold for $3,300,000 in July 2015, apprised at $2,450,000 ? There are lots of examples like this at village's website (http://www.scarsdale.com/Portals/0/Assessor/2016%20REVAL.SalesFilefor2016Reval.pdf)
The assessments are in appropriate and transfer the tax burden from the most expensive homes with the most land to the least expensive homes with the least land. A $5 mil house on an acre should be assessed proportionately to a $750k house on .2 acres, not disproportionately.
This reval was presented as a way to correct "outliers," to "refine and correct" (Mayor Mark's words) residual issues from the Tyler reval. Instead, it used a wholly different model and, not surprisingly, produced a totally different outcome. This is totally unacceptable, and the "tentative" roll should not become permanent.
168 Johnson Rd. Between two assessments,the building information for my home changed: Grade went up from C 100% to C+ 110%; Overall condition went up from 4 to 6. No body did any improvement since 2010. How come the grade of the home getting better by itself? By the completed flawed magic model used in this assessment?!
1 Mayflower Road My taxes are nearly doubled from last year when Tyler Technologies made their assessment. Tyler Technologies actually visited my home. The new assessor did not. Something is obviously wrong with their methodology.
This reval must be voided because of errors in defining the sales population, also because the methodology is "arbitrary and capricious."
I think the mere fact that the Board of trustees decided to have a drive-by reval done by Ryan is tantamount to criminal. The valuations placed on small houses is far out of line that it is an abuse of the affordable housing Act's premise. The Village has become greedy and in an effort to collect money they are asking people to pay more than what the richest residents in their grand houses are paying. This is being done for the very rich, the real estate agents and the builders.
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The village board voted to void the 2016 revaluation and we officially won this fight. Thank you to everyone who signed and stayed active throughout this process. Keep watching the upcoming budget meetings to ensure the new assessment model stays transparent.
July 4, 2016
Final supporters
If you believe the Scarsdale Village should void the 2016 Revaluation, because it is based on a flawed model and opaque process, please sign this petition. Please leave your name and address in the comment section and share with your neighbors.
Thank you!
Updates
June 13, 2016
The village board continues to ignore our requests for transparency regarding this flawed property assessment model. Send an email to your representative today demanding that they void the results and start over. We need to keep the pressure on until they acknowledge the broken process.
June 13, 2016
The momentum behind this effort has reached a level that the village board can no longer choose to ignore. Text your neighbors today to link them to this page and email your representatives to demand a transparent process before another day passes.
Reached 100 supporters
June 13, 2016
94 Comments
The reval mistakenly added 1000 square feet of "finished basement" space to our basement, none of which is "finished". The reval increased our assessed value by 25% even though the house is unchanged from the previous walkthru evaluation. Maynard and Yasuko High, 24 Stratton Road
The assessed values is supposed to be as of July 2015. If the model is valid, why do we see a house sold for $3,300,000 in July 2015, apprised at $2,450,000 ? There are lots of examples like this at village's website (http://www.scarsdale.com/Portals/0/Assessor/2016%20REVAL.SalesFilefor2016Reval.pdf)
The assessments are in appropriate and transfer the tax burden from the most expensive homes with the most land to the least expensive homes with the least land. A $5 mil house on an acre should be assessed proportionately to a $750k house on .2 acres, not disproportionately.
This reval was presented as a way to correct "outliers," to "refine and correct" (Mayor Mark's words) residual issues from the Tyler reval. Instead, it used a wholly different model and, not surprisingly, produced a totally different outcome. This is totally unacceptable, and the "tentative" roll should not become permanent.
168 Johnson Rd. Between two assessments,the building information for my home changed: Grade went up from C 100% to C+ 110%; Overall condition went up from 4 to 6. No body did any improvement since 2010. How come the grade of the home getting better by itself? By the completed flawed magic model used in this assessment?!
1 Mayflower Road My taxes are nearly doubled from last year when Tyler Technologies made their assessment. Tyler Technologies actually visited my home. The new assessor did not. Something is obviously wrong with their methodology.
This reval must be voided because of errors in defining the sales population, also because the methodology is "arbitrary and capricious."
I think the mere fact that the Board of trustees decided to have a drive-by reval done by Ryan is tantamount to criminal. The valuations placed on small houses is far out of line that it is an abuse of the affordable housing Act's premise. The Village has become greedy and in an effort to collect money they are asking people to pay more than what the richest residents in their grand houses are paying. This is being done for the very rich, the real estate agents and the builders.
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The reval mistakenly added 1000 square feet of "finished basement" space to our basement, none of which is "finished". The reval increased our assessed value by 25% even though the house is unchanged from the previous walkthru evaluation. Maynard and Yasuko High, 24 Stratton Road