BERNE — Berne residents were surprised this week when they got their town tax bills: the expected 38 percent hike is closer to 69 percent.
The new supervisor, Joseph Giebelhaus, said that he was surprised as well.
When The Enterprise reached him by phone on Tuesday morning to ask why the rate was so much higher than what had been announced, he said, “I’m writing a resolution to turn the entire affair over to the state comptroller’s office to find out that very question.”…