Tax panel nears end of its work
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  The New York Commission on Property Tax Relief’s public-hearing tour around the state is coming to an end. On Wednesday, the panel holds its 14th and final public hearing on how the state can help property taxpayers. The meeting begins at 1 p.m. at the Onondaga County Court House in Syracuse, and it will be webcast.
  The commission is focusing on special education, school-district mandate relief, the impact of property taxes on the Big 4 large-city school districts (Yonkers, Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo), boards of cooperative educational services and school-district consolidating issues.
  The panel’s final report has to be submitted in three weeks. In a preliminary report released in June, the commission recommended a cap on the growth of school property taxes. Once that is in place, the state should implement a circuit-breaker mechanism, meaning property taxes would be limited if they reached a certain proportion of a homeowner’s income, the report said. The commission made more than 20 recommendations to reduce mandates on school districts and address the root causes of high property taxes.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
