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Above: Middleburgh's Municipal Building. Photo by Carolyn Simmons; reproduced by permission.
In a public vote Tuesday on whether or not to dissolve the village of Middleburgh, residents voted by a decisive 344-71 to keep their village government, several news outlets are reporting.
Mayor Matthew Avitabile issued a statement to the Watershed Post, thanking village residents for not dissolving the village:
"I want to thank the residents of the Village for believing in the future of the community. We're still recovering from the flood and I am glad to see this vote of confidence in the way things are headed," he wrote.
The vote, in which only village residents could participate, had the potential to affect tax rates both inside and outside the village line. Dissolving the village would have probably increased taxes in the town of Middleburgh as a whole, while taxes for residents inside village lines would have gone down. Read more
