Rye Town Dissolution Update - Rye Neck Still Not a Town

This is an edited portion of summarized updates from the June 18 Town Board meeting that Rye Town volunteer media coordinator Dick Hubert has submitted to the press. Originally posted on Rye Patch by Liz Giegerich.
Deputy Town Supervisor Bill Villanova expressed his disappointment and frustration that the State Legislature has yet to pass a law allowing the Rye Neck section of the Town to be a “Town” in the tax collecting sense. Only by allowing Rye Neck to be a “Town” for tax collecting purposes, and the Villages of Rye Brook and Port Chester to be “Town-Villages” so property taxes can be collected, can the Town legally go out of business after voter approval.
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But first the legislature must act. And that “must act” is a waiting game that has frustrated governors, legislators, and ordinary citizens on other issues over the decades. 

Given these uncertainties, the Town is going to do its best to streamline itself and continue its functions with the thought that it could go out of business in 2015, or even later, but surely not sooner. Rye Town continues to focus on right sizing its government regardless of the dissolution progress. Deputy Supervisor Villanova told the dissolution study committee that he would only support the study if there were actionable items at the end of the study.