Financial impact? What financial impact?
After the Nassau County legislature last week proposed an emergency bill to postpone interest and penalties for taxpayers late in paying their second half school property tax bill, County Executive Laura Curran said she wasn't sure if she favored the plan.
The legislature had proposed that interest and penalties for the school tax bill due May 11, be postponed a month until June 11. The intent was to ease the pain of the economic crisis caused by the worldwide pandemic.
On Saturday, Curran said she needed to evaluate the bill, warning "everything has a cost."
She added, "The legislature has to provide a financial impact of this proposal."
But today, Curran announced at her near daily briefing on the coronavirus pandemic that she was asking Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo essentially to do the same thing the legislature had requested.
She said she wanted Cuomo to issue an executive order delaying the property tax deadline to June 1 "to give homeowners and commercial property owners some breathing room." Moving the deadline would also delay interest and penalties.
Yet, she had not received a report on the bill's financial impact from the legislature.
Because the bill was done as an emergency late last week, the legislature's budget review office has yet to provide a financial impact statement.
A Curran spokesman did not return an email asking why Curran went ahead with the request to Cuomo without receiving the financial impact report she had said she needed.
Minutes after Curran made her announcement on the steps of the county legislative and executive building, the legislature by teleconference or in person voted unanimously to delay interest and penalties on the school property tax bill until June 11.
Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) said the coronavirus shutdown of the economy "has hit every sector of our workforce...Thousands of residents are struggling with the financial crunch. Our tax receivers have been inundated with calls...asking for some relief. Our small mom and pop businesses have been crushed by this."
Legis. Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (D-Glen Cove) added, "We all support doing anything we can to help alleviate the financial stress that everyone is feeling."
After the legislative meeting had begun, Curran's counsel, County Attorney Jared Kasschau sent lawmakers an email saying that they did not have the legal authority to do what they were doing.
The legislature had proposed that interest and penalties for the school tax bill due May 11, be postponed a month until June 11. The intent was to ease the pain of the economic crisis caused by the worldwide pandemic.
On Saturday, Curran said she needed to evaluate the bill, warning "everything has a cost."
She added, "The legislature has to provide a financial impact of this proposal."
But today, Curran announced at her near daily briefing on the coronavirus pandemic that she was asking Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo essentially to do the same thing the legislature had requested.
She said she wanted Cuomo to issue an executive order delaying the property tax deadline to June 1 "to give homeowners and commercial property owners some breathing room." Moving the deadline would also delay interest and penalties.
Yet, she had not received a report on the bill's financial impact from the legislature.
Because the bill was done as an emergency late last week, the legislature's budget review office has yet to provide a financial impact statement.
A Curran spokesman did not return an email asking why Curran went ahead with the request to Cuomo without receiving the financial impact report she had said she needed.
Minutes after Curran made her announcement on the steps of the county legislative and executive building, the legislature by teleconference or in person voted unanimously to delay interest and penalties on the school property tax bill until June 11.
Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) said the coronavirus shutdown of the economy "has hit every sector of our workforce...Thousands of residents are struggling with the financial crunch. Our tax receivers have been inundated with calls...asking for some relief. Our small mom and pop businesses have been crushed by this."
Legis. Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (D-Glen Cove) added, "We all support doing anything we can to help alleviate the financial stress that everyone is feeling."
After the legislative meeting had begun, Curran's counsel, County Attorney Jared Kasschau sent lawmakers an email saying that they did not have the legal authority to do what they were doing.
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