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75th Year, No. 38 Freeport, N.Y. 11520
The Community Newspaper
Thursday, September 23, 2010 75^
Freeport is back to school
Leaders wary of tax assessment shift
Local school and public officials are reacting to a plan by County Executive Ed Mangano to end the 62-year-old guarantee to pay districts and towns refunds when the county makes mistakes on its assessments.
"It's like lipstick on a pig," Jay Breakstone, president of the Bellmore School District's Board of Education and president of the Nassau-Suffolk School Boards Association, characterized County Executive Mangano's plan to end tax refund guarantees to school districts and towns.
"It's cosmetic bookkeeping, and the residents of Bellmore will foot the bill for borrowing to pay back the refunds," he continued. The county plans to borrow over $300 million to pay back all outstanding assessment challenges.
Calling it the. "Taxpayer Relief Act of 2010," part of the county executive's $2.6 billion 2011 budget that includes borrowing over $300 million, Mr. Mangano will ask the county Legislature to pass legislation
that would end a guarantee the county has made to towns, school districts and other taxing districts, for 62 years. That guarantee reimburses them the cost of mistakes the county makes on assessed properties.
When asked earlier why the county reimburses monies to the towns and school districts, county Legislator Norma Gonsalves, Republican of East Meadow, said because it is the county that makes the assessments. If it is wrong in that assessment, then it is the county that is responsible for paying for those mistakes to the taxing districts where the homes reside.
But while a statement from the county executive calls the Taxpayer Relief Act of 2010 "a shared sarifice," Mr. Breakstone calls the new act a decentralization, in which the districts will now have to show on their books that it was a district mistake.
"Where the previous administration was looking to centralize everything under one roof," this administration
FREEPORT STUDENTS returned to their lessons (w/ith varying degrees of enthusiasm) in Septennber.
Old house tour coming
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FHS students do summer research
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| Title | The-Leader_2010-09-23 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L&M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2010 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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