Budget Highlights
  • NYS Retirement costs are largest cost increases in fringe benefit lines.
  • Intergovernmental Charge revenue is up 18% due to a negotiated increase in revenue for providing tax map maintenance for Orleans County.
  • Increased per parcel Real Property Services charge to the Towns by $.25, resulting in additional $7,000 in revenue.
  • State aid railroad revenue and offsetting pass through expense of $21,844 was eliminated in 2012 budget.  This has zero net effect on County Taxpayers.
  • Negotiated 5% reduced contract cost on the County’s 2011 audited financial statements to be completed in 2012.  Auditing firm Freed Maxick and Battaglia accommodated our need to reduce our budget by allowing this 5% reduction.
  • Eliminated travel to New World Systems conference in 2012, resulting in savings of $3,450.
  • Overall Reduction in salary/fringe between 2010 and 2012 is the reduction of one FTE, which is significant in a small department with a staff of 8.
  • The net County support for the combined Treasurer’s Office and Real Property budgets has gone down over the last three budgets.  This office is pleased to be able to reduce its net County support, thus minimally impacting the taxpayers of this community.
  • The transformation from the need of a contractor to our in-house project has been an extremely collaborative effort involving the RPTS, Planning and I.T. Departments, in conjunction with our GIS Consultants. This function is being handled very efficiently and will continue to provide a high quality product, which is essential to the use of the GIS systems throughout the County. It has afforded us the opportunity to perform tax map maintenance via our GIS system to the Orleans County Real Property Tax Department, providing added revenue to the County Treasurer’s Office.