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The state's plan to shift $625 million in new Medicaid costs onto local taxpayers would place New York's counties and the City of New York on track to contribute a record $12 billion to state coffers next fiscal year.

Counties Call on Legislature to Hold Firm in Negotiations and Remove $625M Hit from Final Budget Negotiations

County leaders today are calling on their state representatives in the Senate and Assembly to adopt one house budgets that reject Governor Kathy Hochul's proposal to shift $625 million in new costs to counties for the State's Medicaid program. 

The Governor’s Budget proposes to amend NYS Real Property Law that fundamentally alters the process and reasons counties foreclose and auction tax delinquent properties. The proposal requires counties to return excess funds received from auction to the prior property owner after covering delinquent taxes and administrative costs incurred by the enforcing officer.

The New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC) last week presented Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer with its Executive Director's Public Service Award.

The county leaders who represent New York's local property taxpayers unanimously adopted a resolution during their annual Legislative Conference calling on Governor Hochul to continue sharing federal eFMAP funding

If you've been on the fence about going digital with your budget book, here are the top five reasons to take a look at ClearGov's Digital Budget Book – a NYSAC recommended solution that helps your county budget better.

Counties deliver testimony on the SFY 2024 Executive Budget. 

Each year NYSAC provides verbal and written testimony to the legislature’s Joint Committee on the Budget. The testimony is usually presented by the NYSAC President and Executive Director and allows counties to present their case to the Legislature on the Governor’s proposed budget.