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2013 TentativeTax Roll Available Here
May 03, 2013

Ava's 2013 TENTATIVE Roll will be available here . Dates available to meet with the assessor on any questions will beTuesday, May 7, 2:30-6:30pm, Thursday, May 9, 4-8pm, Saturday, May 18 from 9am to 1pm, and Thursday, May 23, 3-7pm, at the Ava Town Hall, 11468 State Route 26, Ava, NY. Appointments should be made in advance with the Assessor at (315)794-4475 or

Grievance Day, for any unresolved issues, will be Tuesday, May 28, 2013.

For comparison purposes, Ava's 2012 Final Tax Roll is available online. Click here to view the roll. To view detailed assessment information for a specific parcel, you may also go to Assessment Information on the homepage index. Then select: Table of Contents>Real Property Database>Search the Real Property Database and provide the necessary information to locate the parcel you are seeking.

Ava assessments are at full market value (100%).

The printed version of the 2012 Final Assessment Roll is also on file at the Ava Town Hall.

A Message From the Assessor Regarding Dilapidated Structures
May 03, 2013

A concern was expressed recently by a property owner who feared that improving his property by removing an unused dilapidated building would result in an increase in the property's assessment. Actually, the opposite is true.

A parcel's total assessed value is arrived at by assigning a value to the land, and also to each and every structure or improvement on the parcel, and then totalling all of them. While a dilapidated building may not have a lot of value in the assessor's eyes, it is a structure, and some value is assigned to it. By removing the structure, the property owner then gives the assessor the ability to totally remove the structure's listing on the tax roll, thereby removing that value from the total assessment.