REQUESTING STATE
LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATIVES TO INTRODUCE AND SEEK PASSAGE OF LEGISLATION
AUTHORIZING ALLEGANY COUNTY TO
CONTINUE THE
ADDITIONAL ONE AND ONE-HALF PERCENT
COUNTY SALES TAX FOR
FOUR YEARS
Offered by: Ways & Means Committee
WHEREAS, the only two substantial sources of tax revenue
available to Allegany County are real property and sales, and
WHEREAS, Allegany County is at its sales tax limit, and
WHEREAS, by Chapter 174 of the 2015 Laws of the State of New
York, the County of Allegany was authorized to impose an additional one and
one-half percent sales tax for the period December 1, 2015, to November 30, 2017, and
WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 200-2015, such additional sales
tax was imposed for such period, and
WHEREAS, Allegany County is presently at 92.45 percent of
its constitutional taxing limit for real estate taxes, and
WHEREAS, Allegany County will be at 100 percent of such
constitutional taxing limit if such additional sales tax is not reauthorized,
and
WHEREAS, Allegany County has had no substantial growth in
real estate assessed valuation in the past five years, and
WHEREAS, in Allegany County’s current economic situation and
in order to preserve essential services, any substantial increase in real
estate taxes would put in financial jeopardy the County's large percentage of
senior citizens with fixed incomes who would have no choice but to pay such
taxes out of such fixed incomes, now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED:
1. That
the Allegany County Board of Legislators requests our State legislative
representatives to introduce and seek passage, in the State Senate and
Assembly, legislation to authorize Allegany County to continue the additional
County sales tax of one and one-half percent for at least the period December
1, 2017, to November 30, 2021.
2. That
the Clerk of this Board is directed to send copies of this resolution to
Senator Catharine M. Young and Assembly member Joseph M. Giglio.
