To: Dutchess County Conservative Party Chairman Patricia Killian

               This is a request for an interview from the Conservative Party.

 As I have previously requested from Dutchess County Chairman Patricia Killian, I would like to answer any questions the Committee has in reference to my Conservative Voting Record. I see a Majority of my voting to fall within the guidelines of our Conservative Parties Platform and have done so for the past 3 ½ years.

                          Office Sought: Dutchess County Legislator District 1

Name: Mr. James R. Doxsey

Age: 56

Party: Conservative Party Since 1985

Ballot Line seeking: Conservative

Owner /Operator of Doxsey Auto Inc. Since 1971

Occupation: Automotive Technician Specialist

Education: Graduate Arlington High, 2Years Technical School, 6 Months GM technical Training/ Tarrytown, N.Y.

Experience: 40 years in Independant Businessman Ownership: Certified in Automotive Engines, Transmissions, Transaxles, Differentials, Vice President Sports Museum of Dutchess County, Board member Anderson School of Autism Fundraising Committee, Co – Chairman Dreams of Gold Foundation. United States Figure Skating Trial Judge, 2 Years Vice Chairman Public Safety Committee, 2 Years Public Safety Committee, 4 Years Public Works and Capitol Projects Committee, 4 Years Wireless Committee, Member of the Voter Integrity Task Force, 2 Years of the New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC) Intergovernmental Affairs and General Government Relations Committee Member, 2 Years (NYSAC) Public Safety Committee Member. 

                     Some of the biggest challenges my Town and County face: 

  Heavily burdened Fire Taxes, Overpopulation at local jail and Loss of property on the tax rolls. Affordable Senior Housing and prescription costs for seniors. Heavily congested highways and intersections during business hours.  

                        How I will and am addressing those challenges:  

  Bear pressure to town Board members to FIX the un-fair tax inequities of Dist. 1 fire tax which Encompasses both Arlington and Fairview Fire Districts, Bring to State Legislation answers to fore-mentioned problem, as I have been doing in Albany for a multitude of years now. Put into action answers toward ways of paying for the modification of the jail with-out additional cost to the County Taxpayers. Put into place corrective measures to not continue to lose properties to not for profit agencies for our properties in District 1. Produce Real answers to Senior housing problems and cost of living in Dutchess County for the elderly. Maintain an open relationship with State and County Officals to address the roads and highway congestion.

                               Why do I want to be Re- elected?

  56 years in Dutchess County, I have seen assets and many failures.

Time is now to continue to bring to the people of the County, Real answers to the Public and solutions as they truly deserve. Real Legislation so our Seniors and our Children can remain safe and continue to live here!

 Please respond via mail, phone or e-mail at:  JRCDOXSEY@AOL.COM

                                                          Respectfully Submitted,

                                                           Mr. James R. Doxsey

                                                           Dutchess County Legislator District 1

                                                           55 Buckingham Avenue

                                                           Poughkeepsie, New York 12601

                                  Cell (845) 337-0026 Home (845) 454-5225 Work (845) 229-1816

We Lobbied May 17, 2011 for adequate Public Safety Protection in the District 1 area.  Only a small few were receptive, most were worried to respond to this difficult topic.

 I want to thank some for the appreciation that was expressed to me :

  Our resident Virginia Buechele Writes: ” Thanks for representing the taxpayers today in Albany Jim – with you there we knew we need not be – you represent us – we were in good hands. – I think that is what representive government is supposed to be about “!

  ” Thanks ” says it all, keeps me going and allows me to push even harder to help the residents as they most surely deserve representation.

 Seems to me the Voters Spoke VERY Clearly in 2010 – No More Growing Local Government!!!

This is precisely why I VOTED ” NO ” to GROWING THIS COMMISSIONER OF SOLID WASTE POSITION ( Now 3 Total ) and over-see the RESOURCE COVERY AGENCY. Appears to me Costs are going to be placed on EVERY Resident. It doesn’t address the ones whom don’t pay taxes: Hospitals, Schools or Colleges. They will be VERY LARGE Generators of garbage, what about those? Who will pay for their garbage pick-up. Correct, You and Me. 

Dutchess County Executive Steinhaus Writes :  ” It will be intriguing to watch if the 2011 County Legislature ( the now Republican majority and many new first term legislators were sent to govern the county based on a promise of smaller government) now reverses itself and adopts an intrusive, big government program that over-regulates, and gobbles up the private sector at the same time “.

 Doxsey Writes: Wonders Never Cease to Amaze Me, Voters were led to the water after PROMISES of Smaller Government. Sadly this is not the case with the Current Super Majority of Republican Legislators. Every One of them Voted in Favor of ENLARGING Local Government. Say one thing and do something else- Sad Indeed.

A772-2009 Actions

• Jul 1, 2010: HELD FOR CONSIDERATION IN WAYS AND MEANS
• Jan 26, 2010: REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
• Jan 6, 2010: REFERRED TO REAL PROPERTY TAXATION
• Feb 24, 2009: REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
• Jan 7, 2009: REFERRED TO REAL PROPERTY TAXATION

A772-2009 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
                                           772
 2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 I N  ASSEMBLY
 (PREFILED)
 January 7, 2009
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, GALEF, CARROZZA -- Multi-Sponsored by -
 M.  of A. BOYLAND, CALHOUN, CROUCH, MILLER, MOLINARO, SAYWARD, SCOZZA
 FAVA, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real  Prop
 erty Taxation
 AN  ACT  to  amend the real property tax law, in relation to authorizing
 fire districts to impose special ad valorem levies and special assess
 ments against otherwise tax exempt real property
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 

Section  1. 

Section  490  of the real property tax law, as amended by
 chapter 87 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
 

S 490. Exemption from special ad valorem levies  and  special  assess
 ments.    Real property exempt from taxation pursuant to subdivision two
 of section four hundred, subdivision one of section four  hundred  four,
 subdivision  one  of  section  four  hundred  six, sections four hundred
 eight, four hundred ten, four hundred ten-a, four  hundred  ten-b,  four
 hundred  eighteen,  four  hundred  twenty-a, four hundred twenty-b, four
 hundred twenty-two, four hundred twenty-six, four hundred  twenty-seven,
 four hundred twenty-eight, four hundred thirty, four hundred thirty-two,
 four  hundred thirty-four, four hundred thirty-six, four hundred thirty
 eight, four hundred fifty, four hundred fifty-two, four  hundred  fifty
 four,  four  hundred  fifty-six,  four  hundred sixty-four, four hundred
 seventy-two, four hundred seventy-four and four hundred  eighty-five  of
 this  chapter  shall  also  be exempt from special ad valorem levies and
 special assessments against real property  located  outside  cities  and
 villages  for  a  special  improvement  or service or a special district
 improvement or service and special ad valorem levies and special assess
 ments imposed by a county improvement district or  district  corporation
 except  (1)  those  levied  to pay for the costs, including interest and
 incidental and preliminary  costs,  of  the  acquisition,  installation,
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00106-01-9
        A. 772                              2
 construction,  reconstruction  and  enlargement  of  or additions to the
 following  improvements,  including  original  equipment,   furnishings,
 machinery  or  apparatus, and the replacements thereof: water supply and
 distribution systems; sewer systems (either sanitary or surface drainage
 or  both, including purification, treatment or disposal plants or build
 ings); waterways and drainage improvements; street,  highway,  road  and
 parkway  improvements  (including  sidewalks,  curbs, gutters, drainage,
 landscaping, grading or improving the right of way)  [and]  (2)  special
 assessments  payable in installments on an indebtedness including inter
 est contracted prior to July first, nineteen hundred fifty-three, pursu
 ant to section two hundred forty-two of the town law or pursuant to  any
 other  comparable provision of law AND (3) SPECIAL AD VALOREM LEVIES AND
 SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS FOR A SPECIAL DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT OR SERVICE LEVIED
 BY A FIRE DISTRICT, FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT  OR  A  PROPERTY  RECEIVING
 FIRE PROTECTION SERVICES.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to special
 ad  valorem  levies  and  special  assessments  imposed on or after such
 effective date.

Those whom choose to tell their constituents ” We’ll Cut Taxes in 2010 and 2011″,  were outright lied to. This TAX was supposed to “SUNSET”, meaning cease to exist on November 2011.  This was another perfect time to HELP the people they REPRESENT get some Tax Relief. This is the 3rd time DC Legislators have placed revenue in the budget that relies on raising more or extending existing Taxes. Now NO Relief will be realized until 2013? Below is the article from the Poughkeepsie Journal Writer Larry Hertz from his online version. Sadly not an ounce of Ink was used to Print it in Todays Poughkeepsie Journal.

A low-cost financing deal was approved today to help Dutchess Community College build its first dormitory, but not without a dissent. 

The Dutchess County Local Development Corp. voted to help the college by issuing up to $32 million in bonds that are tax-exempt to the buyers. A form of private borrowing, the bond approach helps lower the costs of the project to the sponsor, which is technically the Dutchess Community College Association. 

The college plans to add to its Town of Poughkeepsie campus by building a 474-bed dormitory on a 23-acre parcel it owns on Cottage Road, a spot currently used for the soccer field.

The plan has been controversial and the vote was 5-1, with board member Angela Flesland dissenting. She has also opposed the project in her capacity as a Dutchess County legislator, along with County Legislator James R. Doxsey where the College is located as Doxsey represents that District which is Legislative District I. 

“I don’t think that the long-term costs to the town and the county have been addressed,” she said after the meeting. 

As a tax-exempt public entity, the college does not pay property taxes but does use services. The Fairview Fire District has a large burden of property to protect that does not have to pay property taxes, and that has been a bone of contention all along. 

Charles Daniels, another member of the agency board, said other similar projects have been aided in the past. The cost issues have to be worked out, he said, adding, “I don’t think that falls within our purview.”

David Conklin, president of the college, said groundbreaking is set for June 7 and the target for opening is July, 2012.

Reach Craig Wolf at
cwolf@poughkeepsiejournal.com or 845-437-4815.

To :    Denis M. Hughes
President

Dear Dennis:

This is the Best possible message you could have ever written. It is precisely to the point and hits the mark. I would love to use this and send to all medias and get responses from the Senators and Congressman as well as our State Assemblymen. 

Allow me to do so and it will be done.

Respectfully, Honorable Mr. James R. Doxsey

District 1 Dutchess County Legislator

55 Buckingham Avenue

Poughkeepsie, New York 12601

Cell 845-337-0026