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DiNapoli: State Faces Potential Budget Gaps
… that annual spending growth from State Operating Funds will not exceed 2 percent. For the first time since DOB … ago, the Financial Plan shows that even if State Operating Funds spending growth is held to 2 percent, outyear gaps will … the following three years. Spending from State Operating Funds is projected to increase 2 percent this year, but after …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/07/dinapoli-state-faces-potential-budget-gapsUnderstanding Your GASB Report – Governmental Accounting Standards Board
… For additional terms and descriptions, refer to the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) website … of net assets by the government, which is applicable to a future reporting period. It has a negative effect on net … of net assets by the government, which is applicable to a future reporting period. It has a positive effect on net …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/retirement/employers/gasb/understanding-your-gasb-reportSecurities Coordinating Committee
… Transportation Authority (MTA) which also represents the NYC Transit Authority (TA) and the Triborough Bridge and … activity of the Committee. They include: City of New York (NYC) Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) NYC Housing Development Corporation (HDC) NYC Municipal Water …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/debt/securities-coordinating-committeeAccount Authorization Form
… Account Authorization Form (link opens in new window) Note: … Get Acrobat After filling out the form, have your Account Authorization Form notarized and submit it to OSC … After filling out the form have your Account Authorization Form notarized and submit it to OSC …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/online-services/account-authorization-formOpinion 90-7
… (defense and indemnification by municipality) PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- Legal Expenses (defense and … development agency) GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, §856; PUBLIC OFFICERS LAW, §18: A city may defend and indemnify the … benefit of the city. You ask whether, pursuant to Public Officers Law, §18, a city may indemnify the members of an …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-7Opinion 90-37
… section does not require either a public hearing or public sale for the sale of unneeded village real property. A village may not accept the lower of two offers for the sale of village real property based upon a determination that … Whether the village may sell the property at private sale and if so whether it is required to accept the higher of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-37Opinion 89-60
… prospective purchasers of homes within the town. Article 18 of the General Municipal Law (§800 et seq .) contains the … §801), and none of the exceptions contained in Article 18 are applicable (see General Municipal Law, §802). Any … willfully and knowingly violates the provisions of article 18 may be guilty of a misdemeanor (General Municipal Law, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-60Opinion 2008-6
… department results in an increased amount because the daily rate divisor and, therefore, hourly rate divisor used … commissioner is entitled to a corresponding benefit. The daily rate divisor and, consequently, hourly rate divisor … that the next subordinate officer's "regular day's pay" is determined by dividing the officer's salary by 234 …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2008-6Opinion 2009-2
… as a part of the general levy for town purposes ( see 1989 Ops St Comp No. 89-54, at 122; 1986 Ops St Comp No. 86-45, at 74). 2 Town Law § 209-q (13) (a), … area of the town outside of any villages ( see e.g . 1987 Ops St Comp No. 87-27, at 43; Office of the State …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2009-2-0Opinion 88-5
… guarantees (NY Const, art I, §11). Therefore, in answer to your first question regarding the town's policy of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-5Enroll in the Vendor Self-Service Portal
… ID, you should have also received an enrollment email with login credentials and instructions from SFS. Following the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-vendors/portal/enroll-vendor-self-service-portalDiNapoli: Local Communities Reducing Number of Homeless Veterans
… dropped dramatically over the past five years, according to a report issued today by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. Homeless veterans declined from 5,765 in 2011 to 1,248 individuals in 2016 in New York, a decrease of 78.4 percent during the time frame, according to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2017/11/dinapoli-local-communities-reducing-number-homeless-veteransOpinion 96-4
… not authorize payment of an amount equal to the purchase price to a third party for subsequent distribution to the … approved by the village in the amount of the purchase price less the amount due on closing. Under each of these … a promissory note providing for payment of the purchase price over thirty years secured by an annuity contract …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-4Opinion 96-3
… the trustee is the principal stockholder. March 7, 1996 Richard Gabriele, Esq., Village Attorney Village of Great …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-3Opinion 98-16
… fund of excess moneys in school district reserve fund for tax certiorari claims) SCHOOL DISTRICTS -- Reserve Fund … general fund of excess moneys in fund established to pay tax certiorari claims) EDUCATION LAW, §3651: Moneys deposited in a tax certiorari reserve fund by a school district, which are …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-98-16Opinion 95-21
… IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS -- Consolidation (procedures for) SEWER DISTRICTS -- Consolidation (procedures for) TOWN LAW, §206: A town board may, on its own motion, and must, upon the filing of a proper petition, initiate a proceeding to consolidate two … Whether a town board may initiate a proceeding to consolidate several …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-95-21Opinion 93-26
… DISTRICTS -- Fees (authority to impose to offset ambulance district costs) AMBULANCE SERVICE -- Fees (authority to impose to offset ambulance district costs) TOWN LAW, §§198(10-f), 202, 202-a: A town board on behalf of an ambulance district may impose fees upon users of the ambulance district …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-26Opinion 93-19
… discussed in the opinion. COURTS -- Surrogate's Court (fees for certificate of adoption or certified copies of orders of adoption) FEES -- Court Fees (fees for certificate of adoption or certified copies of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-19Opinion 93-13
… to municipalities within county the cost of sheriff's road patrols); (providing sheriff's road patrols on a part-county basis) LOCAL LAWS -- Taxes and … to municipalities within county the cost of sheriff's road patrol) - Pre-emption (formation of special district for …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-13Opinion 2004-1
… AMBULANCE SERVICE -- Fees (imposition of for services of emergency rescue and first aid squad) FIRE DISTRICTS -- … Ambulance Services (imposition of fees for services of an emergency rescue and first aid squad) GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW … TOWN LAW §176: A fire district may not impose fees for emergency rescue services provided by an emergency rescue and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2004-1