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A new tax assessor for Nassau County and a law seeking to curb the sale of candy cigarettes are among the items on the agenda when the Nassau County Legislature holds its second meeting of the year Monday.
The bill would require retailers to put candy cigarettes behind the counter as a way of discouraging youngsters from buying them, but its passage has stalled over concerns about the language of the bill and the burden it could place on small store owners.
Thaddeus Jankowski, 56, of Portsmouth, N.H., the former assessor in Boston, would be the first appointed assessor for a county that has been plagued by complaints about inequities in its assessment system.
As if to prove that point, the Legislature also was expected to vote on several hefty tax refunds for properties that were overassessed, including Reckson Associates, which is owed $1.824 million for five years of overassessment at its corporate offices at 50 Charles Lindbergh Blvd. in Uniondale.Three other commercial property owners have claims of more than $100,000 each that are on the agenda for approval, and more than a dozen other assessment claims totaling more than $1 million are on committee agendas and will be taken up by the full legislature at its next bimonthly meeting.
Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi said in appointing Jankowski earlier this month that both Democrats and Republicans think the assessment system is "broken," and he ordered Jankowski to report back within 60 days on how to reform it.
Jankowski, who will be paid $157,000, replaces Harvey Levinson, who retired one year before his term was up. When it became apparent Levinson would not run again, the legislature voted in favor of a referendum, approved by the voters in November, to the make the assessor an appointed position. |
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