This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.
Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 12 dated municipal records flagged as property tax and fees in New York, spanning 8 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.
What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.
The record starts in Valley Stream, 1 January 2026. Since then 8 New York towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Lackawanna on 26 May 2026.
The last 90 days put 1 meeting on the record, well down from 6 in the 90 days before.
It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Town Board, Mayor&#39s State of the City Addresses and City Council.
| Quarter | Meetings | Towns |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 to Nov 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2025 to Feb 2026 | 5 | 4 |
| Mar 2026 to May 2026 | 5 | 5 |
| Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current) | 2 | 1 |
a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Dec 2025 to Feb 2026, with 5 meetings.
17 August 2026 · Utica
the minutes, on the town's own site 081026 Town Board Meeting – Minutes – DRAFT
26 May 2026 · Lackawanna
the public notice, on the town's own site Legal Notice – Public Hearing – A LOCAL LAW TO OVERRIDE THE PROPERTY TAX LEVY LIMIT FOR THE 2026-2027 FISCAL YEAR 052620
20 April 2026 · Valley Stream Unknown
the budget, on the town's own site Public Hearing Transcript 4-20-26 – Budget Hearing - Concluded
12 March 2026 · Alfred
the agenda, on the town's own site October 2025 Agenda
And 9 more companies.
The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.
Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 87 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.
We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 31 August 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.
Also at this scope: Property tax and fees across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.
Towns on the record
8
Earliest
1 January 2026
Meetings, last 90 days
1 against 6 before
Snapshot cut
31 August 2026
A view that stays current