QUESTIONS IN ALBANY SURVEY NOT ASSESSMENT PRECURSOR.(Local)

Byline: Richard Wexler Staff writer

If the survey you sent back to the city assessor's office tells them something they don't know about your home, your property taxes could go up next year, City Assessor Keith McDonald said Thursday, but McDonald repeated that the survey is not a precursor to a full-scale reassessment.

McDonald told the Common Council Finance Committee that half the people who received the questionnaires already have returned them. He was invited to address the committee because aldermen have been getting questions about the survey.

The survey asks homeowners questions about what their homes are made of, how they are heated and …