some nassau Otb employees were overpaid and some were underpaid when charitably or eumphemistically speaking there were technical difficulties.
each employee should have been provided with a detailed accounting to dubstantiate the estimated payroll that resulted in adjustments to the folllowing payroll
it is also noteworthy that nasau otb does not ptovide employees with the benefit of article 12 sec 7 deferred vompensation plan. the payroll system cannot handle it, ny state 457 deferred compensation plan roth option
many things will vome i to clear focus as you drink at the oak beach inn as the looming default on the bonds of the nassau county medical center will result in a chapter 9 bankruotcy giling by nassau county
the below article is a teaser to rouse the electorate
let's hope that chinese fireworks will be inecprnsive and plentiful
going out with a bang?
GOP wants Nassau to disclose all electronic data on assessments
"It is a fundamental right of taxpayers to know how their taxes are determined," said Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello of the Nassau County Legislature. Photo Credit: Howard Schnapp
Majority Republicans in the Nassau County legislature filed a bill Monday requiring the county to disclose all electronic data — including algorithms, formulas, and computer codes — used to determine home values.
The bill follows a legal tussle between county officials and Lynbook homeowner Dennis Duffy, who had filed records requests to find out the formula used to determine assessments on individual homes. The county cited a "trade secret" exemption in denying his requests.
Duffy sued the county. Late last month, Nassau dropped its claim that the disclosure was exempt because it was a "trade secret." A county lawyer provided 239 pages of code, in PDF format, identifying “the algorithms for the reassessment."
Deputy County Attorney Andrew Scott cited "some misconceptions or misunderstandings" about Duffy's original records request that sought the algorithm.
But some data experts said they could not run the code because some of the files were missing.
The formula was used to reassess all county properties last year, for the 2020-21 tax roll, the first reassessment in nearly a decade.
The bill, to be heard by the county legislature in July and August, requires the Department of Assessment to disclose, within 5 days of a records request, all electronic data files, algorithms, codes, formulas, scripts, and programs used to calculate assessed values.
Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) said during a news conference Monday in Mineola, “it is a fundamental right of taxpayers to know how their taxes are determined."
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