For Sale: Constitution Pipe
Due to the cancellation of the Constitution Pipeline project last February, the now-excess inventory of pipe is available for purchase
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Tentative Town Taxes 2021
By Brian Brock The tentative 2021 budget for the Town of Franklin would spend $1.80 million. To partially finance this, the town board plans to raise $1.23 million in property […]
Office Efforts Part I: Not Here nor There
By Brian Brock The Town of Franklin could use more office space, and our town board has tried for three years to build some. The issue that sparked this search […]
Budget Matters: Town Spending
Last year, the Franklin town government spent $1.72 million. Most of that came from property taxes (66 percent) and state aid (27 percent). Where did this all go, and how […]
Freedom From Frontier – A Boost for Local Business
This year, the option of phone, video, and internet via fiber-optic cable is coming to many in Franklin as an alternative to the existing service via copper-wire cable. Long-time provider, […]
Tentative Town Taxes
The tentative 2019 budget for the Town of Franklin spends $1.76 million. To partially finance this, the town board plans to raise $1.19 million in property taxes from landowners, an […]
Franklin Fiscal Fact-Finding
In 2010, the Franklin Town Board stopped their annual internal auditing of the town books and stopped releasing an accounting, both required under NY Town Law. In addition, they did […]
Franklin Fiscal Fallout
By Brian Brock For many years now, the Town of Franklin has annually violated New York Town Law by the board not auditing the town books (Section 62) and by […]