Author: VillageFreeville

VILLAGE OF FREEVILLE

TAX WARRANT 2025

TO: Tax Collector

YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to receive and collect from the several persons named in the tax roll hereunto annexed, the several sums stated in the last column hereof opposite their respective names, being a total of $134,629.00 for the tax levy of 2024-2025 and also the delinquent sewer bills totaling $4,922.41 for a total collection of $139,551.41.

YOU ARE FURTHER COMMANDED to receive and collect such sums without additional charge between the first day of June and the first day of July 2025, both inclusive, and thereafter to collect with such of the sums as have not been theretofore collected an additional charge of five percent (5%) for the first month or fraction thereof and one percent (1%) for each month or fraction thereof thereafter until November 1, 2025.

YOU ARE FURTHER COMMANDED to return the tax roll and warrant to the Board of Trustees on or before the first Tuesday of November 2025 and to deliver at the same time an account of the taxes remaining due and unpaid, describing each parcel of real property upon which taxes are unpaid showing as to each parcel the amount of tax unpaid. These unpaid taxes will be forwarded to the County by November 15, 2025, to be re-levied on the County Tax Rolls.

Miles McCarty, Mayor

Date: May 6, 2025

NOTICE OF BOND RESOLUTION

The resolution, a summary of which is published herewith, was adopted on April 1, 2025. The resolution was subject to permissive referendum and the period of time has elapsed for the submission and filing of a petition for a permissive referendum.  A valid petition has not been submitted and filed. The validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the Village of Freeville, Tompkins County, New York is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution.

Heather Murray, Village Clerk

SUMMARY OF BOND RESOLUTION

A Resolution adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Freeville, Tompkins County, New York (the “Village”) on April 1, 2025 authorizes the issuance of bonds and other obligations to finance the cost of constructing improvements to the Village waste water treatment plant together with related site improvements, original furnishings, equipment, machinery and apparatus incidental thereto at a total estimated sum not to exceed $9,560,000 and to expend a total maximum estimated sum of $9,560,000 which is estimated to be the total maximum cost thereof (the “Project”), and to pay for such Project by the levy of a tax for the foregoing object or purpose in an amount not to exceed $9,560,000, which shall be levied and collected in annual installments in such years and in such amounts as may be determined by the Board of Trustees and that in anticipation of the collection of such tax, bonds and notes of the Village are hereby authorized to be issued at one time, or from time to time, in the principal amount not to exceed $9,560,000 and a tax is authorized to pay the interest on said obligations when due.  Under the Local Finance Law, the Project has a period of probable usefulness of forty (40) years.  Such resolution shall be kept available for public inspection in the Village Clerk’s Office during regular business hours for twenty days following this publication.