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01/09/2003, 100%
	Nassau Hikes Values of 600 Waterfront Properties (By Celeste Hadrick) After months of defending the accuracy of the reassessments for waterfront homes in Nassau County, officials wound up increasing the values of nearly 600 properties before the end of the year. The changes by Cole Layer Trumble, the Ohio-based company more Section: /news/local/longisland
2.	01/09/2003, 100%
	Review Adds To Shore Values (By Celeste Hadrick) After months of defending the accuracy of the reassessments for waterfront homes in Nassau County, officials wound up increasing the values of nearly 600 properties before the end of the year. The changes by Cole Layer Trumble, the Ohio-based company more Section: /mynews
3.	12/31/2002, 100%
	Nassau County officials certify new tax roll Nassau County officials have voted to approve a new property tax assessment roll for the first time in more than six decades. The Nassau Board of Assessors certified the new tax roll by a 3-to-2 margin on Monday, providing new values for the county's more Section: /news/local/wire
4.	12/31/2002, 100%
	Nassau Reassessment OKd, 3-2 (By Celeste Hadrick) By a 3-2 margin, the Nassau Board of Assessors voted yesterday to approve the county's first new property tax assessment roll in more than 60 years. While the dissenters complained that the recently completed reassessment was seriously flawed, the more Section: /mynews
5.	12/28/2002, 100%
	Review Faults Reassess (By Michael Rothfeld) Three days before Nassau County officials decide whether to approve their first complete property reassessment in six decades, a report cites "significant problems" with the $34-million project. The report written by Harvey Levinson for County Executive more Section: /mynews
6.	11/27/2002, 100%
	Nassau Correcting Property Values (By Celeste Hadrick) In two weeks about 28,000 property owners in Nassau County will receive notice that their tax assessments will be changed as county officials correct values developed for the first countywide reassessment in 64 years. Bruce Nagel, president of Cole Layer more Section: /
7.	09/23/2002, 100%
	Unexpected Returns (By Celeste Hadrick and Michael Rothfeld) Retired teacher Maggie vanBoom was stunned to learn the results of her five-year legal battle against Nassau County to lower the taxes on her Hempstead Village colonial and on the homes of her neighbors. VanBoom was one of six African-American plaintiffs more

Previous Newsday coverage of the controversial residential assessment reductions in Nassau.

December 31, 2002
Nassau Reassessment OKd, 3-2
By a 3-2 margin, the Nassau Board of Assessors voted yesterday to approve the county's first new property tax assessment roll in more than 60 years.

December 28, 2002
Review Faults Reassess
Three days before Nassau County officials decide whether to approve their first complete property reassessment in six decades, a report cites "significant problems" with the $34-million project.

December 21, 2002
A Value Judgment
The State Supreme Court justice overseeing Nassau County's monumental reassessment project Friday approved the new residential property values to be used for calculating taxes, while imposing stringent conditions directed at improving the system into the future.

November 27, 2002
Nassau Correcting Property Values
In two weeks about 28,000 property owners in Nassau County will receive notice that their tax assessments will be changed as county officials correct values developed for the first countywide reassessment in 64 years.

September 23, 2002
Unexpected Returns
Retired teacher Maggie vanBoom was stunned to learn the results of her five-year legal battle against Nassau County to lower the taxes on her Hempstead Village colonial and on the homes of her neighbors. VanBoom was one of six African-American plaintiffs in a landmark lawsuit that forced Nassau to conduct its first countywide reassessment since 1938. They showed that the county's outdated assessment system overstated the value of homes in minority communities, making their owners pay a higher share of taxes than people in neighborhoods that are wealthier and predominantly white. But after the long-sought reassessment, vanBoom, 73, recently was notified by a county consultant that her total tax bill was going up by $310, not down.

July 18, 2002
2,000 Fine for Reducing Assessments
Former Nassau Assessment Review Commissioner Beth Anderson was sentenced yesterday to 3 years' probation and fined $2,000 for granting improper property tax breaks to friends, business clients and political associates.

May 22, 2002
Guilty Plea In Nassau Tax Case
Former Nassau Assessment Review Commissioner Beth Anderson yesterday pleaded guilty to charges that she improperly gave tax breaks to friends, political associates and business clients.

May 15, 2002
Bad Tax Breaks
Beth Anderson, a former Nassau Independence Party chairwoman forced to resign from the county commission that can reduce property-tax assessments, was charged yesterday with illegally granting tax breaks to friends, political associates and business clients.

January 26, 2002
Suozzi Fires Assess Board
Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi on Friday fired the entire county board that grants property assessment reductions and directed the county attorney's office to develop formal rules and procedures for granting tax breaks.

January 23, 2002
Suozzi Aide to Give Back $828
A Nassau County official announced yesterday that he is returning $828 he saved in taxes from getting his property taxes reduced two years ago, as several county lawmakers proposed strict controls for the panel that reduces property tax assessments in Nassau.

July 10, 2001
Tax Data Is 'Gibberish'
Nassau County lawmakers examining the granting of tax reductions to politically connected homeowners threatened to broaden their investigation yesterday after county tax officials provided them what legislators described as "gibberish."

June 15, 2001
Taxing Questions
The vice chairwoman of Nassau's Independence Party resigned this week from a key county commission that handles property tax challenges after officials questioned her personal reduction of assessments for a number of homeowners, including James Kapsis , chairman of the county's Independence Party, and Joseph Mondello, chairman of Nassau's Republican Party.

June 16, 2001
Legislators Seek Tax Probe
As three Nassau legislators called Friday for a special counsel to investigate irregularities in the granting of property tax assessment reductions, federal and local law enforcement authorities began criminal probes of those tax changes, officials said.

June 23, 2001
Kapsis May Sue Head of Nassau Tax Panel
Nassau Independence Party Chairman James Kapsis Friday filed notice that he intends to sue the head of the county panel that decides property tax challenges for making "false and misleading statements" about a tax assessment reduction recently made on Kapsis ' Searingtown home.

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How to Challenge the Tax Assessment of Property in Nassau County

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How to challenge your assessment
Anyone wishing to obtain forms to challenge their assessments may pick up their paperwork at the Nassau County Assessment Review Commission, 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Also, printable forms will be available on Nassau County's Web site www.co.nassau.ny.us, or the Assessment Review Commission will mail one at your request. Contact the ARC at (516) 571-2391 to request a form, or call county Legis. David Denenberg's office at (516) 571-6219.

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"Lawmakers heard complaints from a Levittown homeowner whose house
was classified as ' waterfront' because he lives by a sump!"

"This truly is the perfect financial storm," said Erie County schools Superintendent James Barker when speaking about the work done by Cole Layer & Trumble.

AS Newsday made clear, Cole Layer & Trumble really messed up. Its a shame they didn't get it right the first time out, and resisted all efforts to correct itself, because then the people who will see tax increase would have had the opportunity to review their methodology and their valuation. - J.G.

For its part, Cole Layer Trumble admits that in reassessing more than 400,000 properties, an error rate of about 10 percent occurred. That's over 40,000 properties that were incorrectly valued during reassessment.

Bruce Nagel, Cole Layer Trumble's chief executive officer, said, "These measures [the assessments] are based on statistics. That doesn't mean there aren't mistakes."

What the hell does that double negative mean Bruce?

"Many people's taxes will be going up, and I think there is a large concern that the system was flawed,'' said Harvey Levinson, the county executive's special assistant for reassessment. "There are a lot of angry people out there!"

Cole Layer Trumble was given a stern warning by Tom Suozzi last month. Telling them to, “Shape Up,” and correct mistakes that would cost taxpayers millions of dollars, Suozzi noted that those effected should take every means necessary to correct errors and contest over-taxation. Stopping short of admitting the re-val was flawed, the County Executive did admit that early warnings of problems with CLTs methodology were probably true.

Visomirski said of the 500 homes he has looked at in Shaler and the surrounding area, about 180 or 36 % have some kind of description error. "And I'm just in a little area up here. Imagine what that must be throughout the county," he said.

"The little guy gets screwed again -- can they afford a lawyer for their claim?" Lake County Assessor Paul Karras said. "The whole thing stunk right from the beginning."

Last year, Christensen and a group of other taxpayers filed an Article 78 lawsuit against the city, alledging an arbitrary and capricious assessment which targeted newcomers and poor people. The city, and consultant firm Cole-Layer-Trumble, who performed the reevaluation, have denied the charges. The suit remains in court.

Lee Acquista, the Erie County Assessment Board's lawyer said the board will meet "behind closed doors under a provision to the state Sunshine Act" that he said allows for private discussions about changes to policy. This practice seems to be the norm for Cole Layer & Trumble. Meeting behind closed doors with county assessors while hiding behind the "Sunshine Act". What is Cole Layer & Trumble Hiding from us?

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