Key 2011 Accomplishments
  • Made approximately $37,000 in profit from the 2008 tax property foreclosure sale, the seventh consecutive year of attaining a net profit.

  • Worked with actuary firm to develop GASB 45 liability figure for inclusion in the 12/31/11 County financial statements.  The County’s GASB 45 liability is one of the lowest amounts across the entire State.

  • Continued the billing of all Payment In Lieu Of Taxes (PILOT’s) inside the County.  Starting in 2008, the Treasurer’s Office started to bill for City PILOT’s as well.  Previously, the City maintained this function, but to consolidate the workload the Treasurer’s Office took over this responsibility.  For all new PILOT’s in the City the collection date for County PILOT’s will be January instead of May, which will improve the County’s cash flow position and earn additional interest.

  • Successfully completed 2010 calendar year audit with independent auditing firm, Freed, Maxick & Battaglia.  The County received an unqualified opinion and was notified that the County’s financial operations are run very well.

  • The County maintained its strong bond rating of AA- from S&P Rating Agency.
  • In November of 2010 the Treasurer’s Office implemented an upgraded County government wide financial system that encompasses payroll, accounts payable, revenue accounting, journal processing, inventory and procurement.  The Treasurer’s Office took the lead in this significant project and has participated in and assisted in providing over twenty weeks of training to Genesee County employees on the upgraded system.  Benefits of the new system include a more efficient way of conducting County government through employee time savings, paper cost savings, and staff development/training time savings.
  • Worked with Purchasing Department on implementing new County “Cost Per Copy” contract.  The CPC program has resulted in significant copier savings to the County over the last five years.
  • Worked in conjunction with the Purchasing department on the conversion of the P-Card system from Elan Financial Services to M&T Bank.  The Treasurer’s Office and Purchasing trained all County employees in how to use new cards and what the policies and procedures are.  New system with M&T Bank has more features for monitoring transactions and allows for cash rebates back to the County.
  • Implemented electronic document management process in the Treasurer’s Office.  This will result in substantial savings in paper and printing.
  • Supported the City of Batavia and Towns of Batavia, Bergen, Byron, Elba, LeRoy, Oakfield and Pavilion with annual assessment update duties. Also supported the Towns of Alabama, Bethany, Darien and Pembroke in triennial assessment updates.

  • Continued contractual obligation with the City of Batavia for annual review of assessments.  Collaboration between City Assessor, County, NYSORPTS and GAR Associates has replaced full time assessor position.  All properties were analyzed using Computerized Assisted Appraisal techniques for the 2011 fiscal year.  This collaboration has been extremely successful.

  • All tax maps continue to be maintained in-house, within the Real Property Department, in a digital format using a geodatabase and GIS mapping software.  The Department performs the reading of all deeds and is making all tax map changes to accomplish this task. Continued working with the GIS Focus Team and Bergmann Associates with the on-going development of the County GIS site.  Digital maps have been imported into the GIS system as well as 2011 assessment files, making this a very useful tool for our Planning Department, Sheriff’s Department, Health Department and many others. The GIS data and the Real Property tax maps have also been made available to the public via the internet. 

    This step into digital mapping and GIS has also afforded the County another revenue source, as this digital information has become very popular to many outside vendors.

  • Continued maintenance of the Genesee County access to the Real Property Information, Parcel History Database, Tax Maps and Tax Bill information on the internet. The website has been extremely successful and very popular with the public.

  • The "traffic" through the Real Property Department and use of the tax maps and index cards has drastically been reduced these past couple of years, due to the access of this data via the internet.

  • The Real Property Department has continued the Tax Map Maintenance contract with the Orleans County Real Property Department. The Department will perform the tax map maintenance of the 22,000+ parcels in Orleans County. Our goal is to help Orleans County achieve a reliable and accurate Geodatabase in regards to tax map maintenance and to assist them in moving forward with their GIS project.
  • The Real Property Department assisted in the crossover from an outdated Citrix server to a new Terminal Server to house all of the assessment data for Genesee County.   Having all of the assessment data in one countywide server has proved to be very useful for the administration of taxes and for the Department’s support in the assessment process.