Legal notice – Orwell town board meeting Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 7:00 p.m., water project

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: The Town Board of the Town of Orwell will be holding a special meeting on Tuesday November 28th at 7pm at the Town Hall located at 1999 CO RT 2, Orwell NY to discuss finalizing the bond resolution increase and bids received for construction of the water project.

By order of the Orwell Town Board

Amber Wilson
Town Clerk
November 17, 2023

Legal notice – preliminary budget public hearing 7:00 p.m. Thursday, November 14

LEGAL NOTICE:

TOWN OF ORWELL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING on the preliminary budget for the Town of Orwell for the fiscal year 2024.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the preliminary budget for the Town of Orwell, County of Oswego, New York, for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2024 is available and filed in the Office of the Town Clerk in Orwell, New York, where it may be inspected by any person during regular business hours.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Town Board of the Town of Orwell, will meet and review said preliminary budget and hold a Public Hearing thereon at said Town at 7 pm on Thursday, November 14, 2023, and at such hearing any persons may be heard in favor or against the preliminary budget as compiled for or against any item or items therein contained.

PURSUANT TO SECTION 108 OF TOWN LAW, the proposed salaries of the
following Town Offices are specified as follows:
Supervisor $17,004
Councilmen(4) $ 3,732 each
Town Clerk $12,444
Justice $ 8,598
Highway Superintendent $57,135

Dated October 26, 2023
Amber Wilson
Orwell Town Clerk

Public hearing – Local law to override tax levy limit for 2024

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

TOWN OF ORWELL

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Public Hearing will be held by the Town Board of Trustees of the Town of Orwell on the 24th day of October, 2023 at 7:00 P.M. at the Municipal Building, 1999 County Route 2, Orwell, New York 13426, to consider the following:

Adoption of Local Law No. 2 of 2023 which would permit the Town of Orwell to adopt a Town budget for (a) Town purposes (b) any other special or improvement district governed by the Town Board for the fiscal year 2024 that requires a real property tax levy in excess of the “tax levy limit” as defined by General Municipal Law § 3-c.

Copies of the proposed Local Law are on file at the Office of the Town Clerk and may be inspected during regular business hours.  Parties may appear at the hearing in person or by agent.

BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD

Amber Wilson
Town Clerk
Dated:  October 4, 2023

Orwell town board special meeting Tuesday, August 15, 5:00 p.m. – re library board of trustees

LEGAL NOTICE

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: The Town Board of the Town of Orwell will be holding a special meeting on Tuesday August 15th at 5pm at the Town Hall located at 1999 County Route 2, Orwell, New York to discuss the approval of the library board of trustees.

By order of the Orwell Town Board

Amber Wilson
Town Clerk

Notice of Completion of Tentative Assessment Roll 2023

LEGAL NOTICE
TOWN OF ORWELL
NOTICE OF COMPLETION OF TENTATIVE ASSESSMENT ROLL
(Pursuant to section 506 and Article 15A section 1526, of Real Property Tax Law)

HEARING OF COMPLAINTS:

Notice is hereby given that the Assessor in the Town of Orwell, County of Oswego has completed the Tentative Assessment Roll for the current year. A copy thereof will be filed on or before May 1, 2023 with the Town Clerk’s office.

The Assessor will be in attendance with the assessment inventory, valuation data and the above- mentioned tentative roll at the town assessor’s office on County Route 2 on the following dates:

Tuesday May 2                 (4 PM – 8 PM)

Saturday May 6                (8 AM – 12 Noon)  

Tuesday May 9                 (4 PM – 8 PM)

Tuesday May 16               (4 PM – 8 PM)

Grievance day is Wednesday May 24, 2023 between the hours of 2 PM and 4PM and 6 PM and 8 PM in the Orwell Town Hall on County Route 2. You may mail your complaint for review, but the complaint must be RECEIVED by the B.A.R. no later than the day the B.A.R. meets to hear complaints. You must fill out and file form RP-524 for every parcel you wish to file a complaint on.

IF YOU FILE YOUR COMPLAINT LESS THAN FOUR DAYS BEFORE THE B.A.R. MEETS THE BOARD IS REQUIRED TO GRANT THE ASSESSOR’S REQUEST FOR AN ADJOURNMENT TO ALLOW THE ASSESSOR TO PREPARE A RESPONSE TO THE COMPLAINT. THE FAILURE TO FILE YOUR COMPLAINT ON TIME CLOSES OFF YOUR RIGHT FOR ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL REVIEW.

Dated the 12 day of April 2023
David J. Roach IAO, Sole Assessor
Town of Orwell

Orwell town board meeting for March 2023 RESCHEDULED

The regular monthly meeting of the Orwell town board has been rescheduled from its original date of Tuesday, March 14, to the following Tuesday, March 21, 2023. The meeting time remains the same, at 7:00 p.m.

The public hearing on the proposed local law pertaining to code enforcement has been rescheduled to the regularly scheduled town board for April, which will take place Tuesday, April 11, 2023.