Options for reforming New York’s property tax will be the focus of a conference from 9 a.m.-noon January 10 at the Rockefeller Institute in Albany.

Scheduled speakers include:

• Robert Ward, director of research for The Business Council and the Public Policy Institute.
  
  
• E.J. McMahon Jr. of the Empire Center of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank.
  
  
• Frank Mauro of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor-backed think tank.
  
  
• Kent Gardner of the Center for Governmental Research.
  
  
• Jim Dunne of the Office of Real Property Services.
  
  
• David Gaskell of the Hudson Group.
  
  
• Elizabeth Karasmeighan of Americans for Tax Reform.

The event is sponsored by the Center for Governmental Research, the Empire Center for New York State Policy, and the Fiscal Policy Institute.