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Angela, speaking for county auditing operations, said the office is handling a five‑business‑day lag for general mail and continues to struggle with a high volume of daycare vouchers; she gave an example that one recent day brought 250 vouchers for auditing. Angela thanked the board for approving a new position and said the office is monitoring about 12,760 individuals or entities in its exclusion/vendor‑creation process. She also said the county’s DPW auction is nearly ready to go live with 31 lots and that asset reporting and vendor contract documents were recently submitted to auditors.

Chris reported that deed counts remain down from last year while subdivision activity is steady. He said the county’s tax‑map scanning project is underway, with about 21,000 sheets expected to be scanned in total; staff sent roughly 7,000 sheets out and said internal verification would be substantial once scans are returned. Chris also said he completed required annual training and that tentative rolls are out; grievance‑day timing varies by municipality, though it is typically in May.

Payroll/finance staff member Michelle presented overtime-related figures: for March, the difference between time‑and‑a‑half and double overtime across two pay periods was $31,453.81; for April, the difference was $30,031.18 — about $30,000 per month.

Ending: Staff urged departments and the public to watch for the DPW auction notice when published and said ongoing scanning and verification work on tax maps will continue in the coming weeks.
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1) To authorize the county manager to enter into a contract amendment (Resolution No. 1). The motion was moved and seconded; the board recorded the vote as unanimous (5‑0). The meeting transcript shows the chair called for a vote and members responded “Aye.” No further details about the contract amendment text or contractor were provided on the meeting record excerpt.

2) To adopt an employee‑notification policy regarding disciplinary records and FOIL (Resolution No. 2). County staff described the measure as a new policy “per law” that requires the county to notify employees when disciplinary records are requested or released under FOIL. Board members asked clarifying questions about timing of notification (before or after release). After discussion the board voted in favor; the record shows the measure passed by a recorded “5 zip.”

3) To modify item number 25 (Resolution No. 3). The board moved and seconded the modification and recorded the vote as in favor (vote recorded as “Aye”). No further descriptive text about the contents of modification No. 25 appears in the transcript excerpt.

Separately, board members raised a motion to enter executive session to discuss collective bargaining; the meeting transcript shows the chair asking for the motion and members indicating support. The excerpt does not include a roll‑call vote on the executive‑session motion in the provided text.

Ending: The board approved three resolutions with unanimous recorded support; several other matters, including follow‑up on FOIL notification timing and collective bargaining, were deferred to staff and to executive session.
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The discussion began with a staff report noting that the senior property-tax exemption requires claimants to be at least 65 and is subject to an income limit. Staff member Chris said, “we're currently at 20,500 for a … 50% exemption on the assessed value of the property,” and that the county offers three sliding scales that staff said increase the eligible-income cutoff “by 8,400” to about $28,900 for a smaller (5%) exemption. Chris added that the state has allowed counties to set the 50% exemption threshold at higher income levels and offered to “put something together and we could discuss more.”

The board and staff framed the change as having multiple budgetary implications: any county increase would require towns, villages and local school districts to decide whether to match the county’s change. Board members also noted that projecting the cost depends on how many additional taxpayers would qualify; Chris said staff does not know exactly who would apply without reviewing records and that he could prepare a spreadsheet showing the current exemptions versus a hypothetical $50,000 base.

Resident Ken Walter used public comment to press several budget points, including county payroll deductions for employee health insurance and long‑term campus maintenance. Walter urged the board to “take care of our employees” and to consider phasing in any changes “over a couple years of the contract” to soften budget impacts. He also criticized perceived declines in local commercial activity and urged attention to county properties, including the Liberty campus.

Board members and staff placed the exemption discussion in the larger context of an annual budgeting cycle and upcoming labor negotiations. One board member asked the county manager for a baseline showing how potential raises for employees would affect the county’s tax-cap position and requested that staff present exemption-cost scenarios at the next meeting.

The meeting record shows direction to staff rather than a formal vote on changing exemption policy: staff agreed to prepare comparative figures outlining current exemptions and the projected cost to the county of raising the income threshold to a higher level for the 50% exemption. No ordinance, local law or formal amendment to the county’s exemption policy was adopted at the meeting.

The exchange included repeated clarifications that the assessments and equalization rates are set by local assessors and state processes; board members noted that revaluations and equalization-rate adjustments affect which properties bear most of the tax burden. Chris and others urged taxpayers who believe they are assessed unfairly to file grievances with their town assessor or attend grievance day, which typically occurs in May (dates vary by municipality).

The board also discussed the county’s budgetary constraints, noting sales-tax revenues were coming in lower and that a modest percentage increase in the tax levy would translate into millions of dollars depending on the growth factor. No formal change to the tax cap or levy was proposed at this meeting.

Ending: The board asked staff to prepare and present the exemption-cost analysis at an upcoming meeting so members could weigh the fiscal tradeoffs before any policy change.
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