Intro. No. 48-20
RESOLUTION NO. Page
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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 THREE 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 61 of the 2017 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, 2017, to November
30, 2020, and
WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 169-2017, such additional
sales tax was imposed for such period, and
WHEREAS,
Allegany County is presently at 82.33 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, 2020, to November 30, 2023.
2. That the Clerk of this Board is
directed to send copies of this resolution to Senator George Borrello and Assemblyman
Joseph M. Giglio.
I, Brenda Rigby
Riehle, Clerk of the Board of
Legislators of the County of Allegany, State
of New York, do hereby certify that the
foregoing constitutes a correct copy of the original on file in my office and
the whole thereof of a resolution passed by said
Board on the
________ day of ________________________ 20______.
____________________________________________
Dated at Belmont, New York this _____ day of ____________ 20_____
Clerk, Board of Legislators,
Allegany County
Moved by
_____________________ Seconded by _____________________ VOTE: Ayes_____Noes_____Absent_____Voice_____
