Also, acting building inspector named

Following a public hearing on Monday (Feb. 3), the Beacon City Council approved expanded property tax exemptions for senior citizens and disabled residents with limited incomes. 

The new income brackets and exemption levels will offer savings to seniors and disabled residents earning up to $49,999 annually and will apply to residential tax bills beginning in 2026. The changes bring the city’s exemptions in line with those used by Dutchess County. Taxpayers must apply for the exemptions annually; the deadline to submit applications to Kathy Martin, the city assessor, is March 1. See dub.sh/beacon-assessor.

The City Council on Monday also named Cory Wirthmann as the acting building inspector, succeeding Bruce Flower. Wirthmann had been a deputy in the building department. Flower took a job with the Town of Poughkeepsie, where he worked for nearly 19 years before coming to Beacon.

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Jeff Simms has covered Beacon for The Current since 2015. He studied journalism at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. From there he worked as a reporter for the tri-weekly Watauga Democrat in Boone and the daily Carroll County Times in Westminster, Maryland, before transitioning into nonprofit communications in Washington, D.C., and New York City. He can be reached at [email protected].