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Westchester County officials are waiting to see if Gov. Andrew Cuomo will sign off on their plan to increase the county's sales tax by 1%.

A 1% increase, or a penny-on-the-dollar, would bring the county's tax rate to 8.375% and bring it in line with cities like Mount Vernon and New Rochelle.

It would still be lower than the 8.875% charged in Yonkers and New York City.

In just the second half of this year alone, county officials say it would generate almost $50 million. Westchester County Executive George Latimer believes it could help put the cash-strapped county on firm financial footing.

Peekskill and Rye shoppers would be impacted by a sales tax increase, but the county says it would share in some of the revenue.

There was no word on when or if the governor will greenlight the measure.

County Executive Latimer told News 12 that he remains optimistic and is satisfied while the matter goes through the right process in Albany.

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We're gonna keep it just rain coming on down. Although you may see a flurry or two for portions of Wednesday afternoon, Thursday afternoon, but that's it, a flurry or two. We do have a pretty much substantial rain chance coming our way for Sunday. As once again, like this past weekend, we deal for split weekend, Saturday looking nicer than Sunday's time frame. And so Sunday may be along the stormy side, but Wednesday and Thursday coming on up feeling colder but staying mainly dry overnight. It's a light breeze with a continued chill in the air. Here's what we can be anticipating for Sunday. We have an area, blood pressure pushing upward in towards the northeast that allows more moisture to be pulled this way and some gusty winds will start to build on in for Sunday afternoon in through Sunday evening. Once this front passes us by, by early Monday morning, we're talking about pre dawn, we'll get some colder air to come rushing on in drier air as well. So we'll shut down that rain chance that you'll be dealing with potentially if you're out and about very early in the morning. But overnight tonight, it's mostly cloudy skies, temperatures cooling down towards the mid thirties, maybe feeling in the upper twenties and a few spots whenever you do get a light breeze to come on through. The reason why it's cloudy. Hope we got a system down towards our south and west that's heading on down towards the Mid Atlantic States. So we're not seeing any of this precipitation coming on through, but we are dealing with the cloud cover coming on in overhead. So later on tonight, 845 cloudy skies, there's that Florida too in the Catskills, same thing as you go out in towards tomorrow morning. Then by tomorrow afternoon, some sunny breaks are possible, West Point, you may see a flurry of two in towards three o'clock. And then by Wednesday evening, we're clearing out those skies temperatures though, hanging out in the low twenties and unfortunately getting a little bit colder than that. So moving on in past Wednesday into Thursday, we see our high temperatures struggling to get up into the upper thirties, Friday. Much better by comparison, upper forties. Saturday's the pick of the week. 54 degrees poly cloudy skies get out and enjoy before rainy, windy conditions arrive on Sunday.

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Latimer optimistic as Cuomo mulls Westchester's sale tax increase plan