What's on the Webster Town Board agenda Thursday: the paperwork behind the 2027 reassessment

The Webster Town Board meets Thursday, July 16, with a workshop at 6:30 p.m. and the regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Board Room at 1002 Ridge Road. The agenda runs mostly to administrative and scheduling business, and the item that reaches the most households is a routine-looking authorization that formally starts a full town-wide reassessment for 2027. Here is what is on the agenda and why it matters.

The paperwork behind the 2027 reassessment

Item 6 would authorize the Supervisor to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the New York State Office of Real Property Tax Services (ORPTS) for support services tied to the 2027 town-wide assessment revaluation. In plain terms, it is the back-office step that starts a full reassessment of every property in Webster, with new values landing on the 2027 tax roll. It is the machinery behind the reassessment residents saw previewed in mailers earlier this summer.

A town-wide revaluation resets the tax base and produces winners and losers among homeowners even when the total amount the town collects does not change. Whether a given household's bill rises or falls depends on how its new assessment moves relative to everyone else's.

Separately, two seats on the Board of Assessment Review, the panel that hears residents' challenges to their assessments, remain vacant after resignations at the start of July. The agenda does not list appointments to fill them.

A school-officer contract, back for a second look

Item 5 would authorize the Supervisor to sign the 2026-2027 School Resource Officer contract with the Webster Central School District. The board tabled the same item on July 2 after members said they could not locate this year's signed agreement to review before voting. Police Chief Dennis Kohlmeier said the matter was not time-sensitive, and the board rescheduled it to July 16. The question Thursday is simply whether the board now has the document in hand and approves it.

A new traffic law heads toward a public hearing

Item 7 is a scheduling step, not an adoption vote. According to the posted agenda, it would set a public hearing on August 3, 2026, on proposed Local Law No. 3, Vehicle and Traffic Regulations, to be advertised in the July 22 Webster Herald.

The substance of Local Law No. 3 was not included in the posted packet. Town Engineer Keith Mortimer is set to present on it at the workshop earlier in the evening, so residents get a first look at what the law would change the same night the hearing is scheduled.

A liquor-license notice waiver for the movie theater

Item 8 is a request to waive the 30-day advance-notification period the town would normally take before a state liquor-license application moves ahead. According to the resolution, the town received a New York State Liquor Authority standardized notice form on July 10, 2026, from American Multi-Cinema, Inc., the operator of AMC Webster 12 at 2190 Empire Boulevard, for a change in the class of its on-premises liquor license. The company has asked the town to waive the standard 30-day notice period, and the resolution states the applicant will not be in violation of any Town of Webster zoning ordinances.

Also at the workshop

Two other items are on the workshop agenda, both presentations with no vote scheduled.

• Conservation Board members are set to present on the Tree City USA program, an Arbor Day Foundation recognition that asks a municipality to maintain a tree board, a tree-care ordinance, a community forestry budget, and an annual Arbor Day observance.
• Mortimer is also set to lead a discussion of a proposed "Child with Disabilities" warning-sign program. As described in the agenda, an application would require a doctor's note and annual verification that the child still lives at the address. A sign would be considered on residential roads carrying fewer than 2,000 vehicles a day, posted at 35 miles per hour or less, for a child under 18.

Routine business

The regular meeting opens with consent items: approval of the July 2 workshop and meeting minutes, bills, a prepaid warrant, and purchase orders. Approving the July 2 minutes makes that meeting's actions part of the official record. Item 9 would declare a list of Police Department property surplus for recycling or disposal, including file cabinets, desks, radios, older Ford Explorers, cameras, and a firearm.

How to weigh in

The meetings are open to the public in the Town Board Room at 1002 Ridge Road. Residents who cannot attend can find the agenda and, once posted, the minutes through the town's meeting records.

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