Government
The Webster Town Board weighs a petition to annex a Xerox parcel into the Village of Webster, votes on updated traffic regulations, and hears from summer interns and the town engineer at Thursday's meeting.
Planning & development
Webster's community development director told the Town Board on Aug. 6, 2026, that the moratorium has not changed the number of single-family homes likely to be built over the next 12 to 18 months. Local Law No. 2 of 2026 covers six commercial and office districts.
WCSD
The Board of Education meets at 5 p.m. Tuesday with the 2026-27 tax warrant, a public hearing on the student code of conduct and $6.25 million in reserve transfers on its agenda. Public comment is at 6:05 p.m., after the votes.
Webster homeowners get two tax bills a year, and each is a stack of separate governments. Here is how the town, county, school, and special district pieces fit together, and the math behind every line.
Moving to Webster means joining a community with its own civic rhythms. None are complicated, but a few will surprise you if you don't know to look. 1. There are two governments, and they overlap Webster has a Town government and a Village government. The Village of Webster
You have more power at Webster Town Hall than you might think. Here is exactly how to use it.
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WEDA hosts a design open house Monday evening at 29 South Ave. Results of the project's environmental review are expected at the Town Board's Thursday meeting.
One county dispatcher takes every Webster 911 call. What arrives next may be a town department, one of two independently elected fire districts, or a nonprofit ambulance corps.
Webster's police cars carry cameras that read license plates. Police Chief Dennis Kohlmeier disclosed the capability at a budget workshop. New York's model policy binds nobody, and the state records schedule it points to sets a one-year retention where local governments have adopted it.
The Zoning Board of Appeals approved a privacy fence and a front setback Tuesday, both 5-0. A request to park a food truck in a backyard was tabled to December at the applicant's request.
The agenda for Tuesday's Zoning Board of Appeals meeting says Waterview Apartments Phase 3 is tabled to September. A fence, a food truck and a front setback are the three scheduled matters left on the docket.
Police, highway, the library and the town's zoning line came to Webster's second and last 2027 budget workshop. Three of the biggest levy lines are flat, falling or zero. None got there by spending less.
Webster's sewer plant brought its 2027 budget to the Town Board on Thursday. The combined per-unit charge falls $8.89. The revenue that makes that possible is not contractually guaranteed, the department told the board.
The draft resolution posted with the agenda would have granted relief. No one moved it. A motion made from the floor to deny recited the same findings in the negative and carried unanimously.
Item 8 would grant hardship relief from the town's development moratorium for a proposed recreation facility on Five Mile Line Road. The draft resolution is posted with the agenda. The applicant's submission is not.
The site plan approval for Cobblestone Place Phase 2 was set to expire Wednesday. A four-member board granted a one-year extension Tuesday night, after a public hearing at which nobody spoke.
The board takes public comment Tuesday night on extending the Cobblestone Place Phase 2 site plan approval, which runs out the next day. Also on the docket: 36 more Aberdeen lots and a building addition on Ridge Road.
Six town departments and the justice court brought opening 2027 requests to the Town Board. None include raises, which are still being negotiated.