County of Clinton v. Drollette

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Dawson, J.), entered June 16, 2003 in Clinton County, which, inter alia, granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to RPTL article 7, to declare petitioner’s landfill tax exempt.

*969Prior to 1996, petitioner owned and operated a public solid waste landfill in the Town of Schuyler Falls, Clinton County. Over time, petitioner’s efforts to oversee the landfill’s daily operations proved to be economically disastrous to petitioner and its residents, resulting in the accumulation of approximately $17 million in debt. This dire circumstance…