WAWAYANDA, N.Y.—The Orange County Industrial Development Agency says the veto of a tax break for a planned Amazon Warehouse in the Town of Wawayanda is invalid.
The agency approved a 15-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes program for a 3.2 million-square-foot warehouse on Oct. 23. Amazon stood to save $80 million in property taxes.
After the passing of the tax break, Sen. James Skoufis (D-N.Y.) asked the monitor for the agency, Brian Sanvidge, to veto the tax break and started a campaign to collect local signatures to oppose the program. Skoufis sent a letter on Nov. 11 containing 1,000 county resident signatures to Sanvidge, who vetoed the tax break on Nov. 25….