Research

Scope and Content Note

The records consist of applications, correspondence, memoranda, calculations, and notes relating to the special state aid program for municipalities and school districts where property owners had been granted tax abatements for damage from Hurricane Agnes.

The first box contains files for each county and each city school district, arranged in alphabetical order. Each county file contains the following documents: "application and certificate for state assistance for flood damage," including name and address of chief fiscal officer of county, his certificate as to correctness of claim, total amounts of tax abatements for county, town/special district, city, and village purposes within the county, and attached schedules stating for each town and city the number of damaged parcels and the amount of tax abatement for county and municipal purposes; supplemental, revised county applications (same data as above); individual applications for state assistance for flood damage submitted by chief fiscal officer of each city, town, and village (give much the same data as the consolidated county application); correspondence and memoranda; computations of second year (50%) and third year (25%) payments; and scattered lists of persons to whom the first year tax abatement remained unpaid (used in adjusting second and third year payments).

The second box contains miscellaneous correspondence, memoranda, statistical tables, notes, sample blank forms, and other records.