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Please take notice that the Village of East Aurora Board of Trustees passed a resolution at their December 15, 2025, Village Board meeting to conduct a public hearing in the boardroom of the East Aurora Municipal Center, 585 Oakwood Ave, East Aurora, NY, on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 7:00 pm.

           The purpose of this hearing is to consider a Local Law authorizing a property tax levy in excess of the limit established in General Municipal Law Section 3-c.  If adopted, the proposed local law shall read as follows:

           Section1.  Legislative Intent

           It is the intent of this local law to allow the Village of East Aurora to adopt a budget for the fiscal year commencing June 1, 2026 that requires a real property tax levy in excess of the “tax levy limit” as defined by General Municipal Law Section 3-c.

           Section2.  Authority

           This local law is adopted pursuant to subdivision 5 of General Municipal Law Section 3-c, which expressly authorizes a local government’s governing body to override the property tax cap for the coming fiscal year by the adoption of a local law approved by a vote of sixty percent (60%) of said governing body.

           Section 3:  Tax Levy Limit Override

           The Board of Trustees of the Village of East Aurora, County of Erie, is hereby authorized to adopt a budget for the fiscal year commencing June 1, 2026 that requires a real property tax levy in excess of the amount otherwise prescribed in General Municipal Law Section 3-c.

           Section4:  Severability

           If a court determines that any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part of this local law or the application thereof to any person, firm or corporation, or circumstance is invalid or unconstitutional, the court’s order or judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this local law, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part of this local law or in its application to the person, individual, form or corporation or circumstance, directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment or order shall be rendered.

           Section 5:  Effective date

           This local law shall take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State.

           At said hearing, all persons so desiring shall have the opportunity to be heard.

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