Suozzi Failures

[Peter Principle]

In a ongoing string of governmental failures over the past 5 years for Tom Suozzi giving him name credit for anything at the Craddle is laughable. If he didn't have a driver he wouldn't even know how to get there. Once again Gerbasi is there to make the boss look good. That and a new director who should be ticked that he didn't even get a name mention.
Want to see what Suozzi got involved in, take a look at the domed (doomed)Courthouse on Franklin. A project over budget, in dissaray, two buildings that look like two left feet side by side, all the planners that have quit, and no forseeable completion date. Its good to see that Klurfeld is still kissing Suozzi's ass. Except now readers snicker whem they read this junk.

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A nice Row to hoe
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May 26, 2007

For too long the only cohesive aspect of Museum Row in Mitchel Field was its name. The highly regarded museums seemed to interact only during turf wars. Now, after some tough love from Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, the three attractions are falling into line, with plans to coordinate thr marketing and programming to attract more visitors and reduce thr reliance on government funding.

During marathon weekend earlier this month, the Long Island Children's Museum, the Cradle of Aviation and the Nassau County Firefighters Museum sponsored a family festival, offering a discounted, $10 ticket for admission to all three spots for the first time. Creating a Museum Row logo to brand thr joint effort was another smart move. And there are plans to integrate traveling exhibits sponsored by the nascent Long Island Museum for Science and Technology under the Cradle of Aviation's wings. The county's small police museum, now headquartered in Mineola, should also move to the row.


Even the Cradle's underutilized and money-losing IMAX theater might be ready to soar. The theater, which is now open at night for the first time, is expected to draw crowds this summer, when it will screen the much-awaited "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."

While the suburban Museum Row concept is on the way to becoming a success, there are still concerns about the long-term financial stability of the Cradle. A new chairman and interim director have been successful at fundraising and devising a plan to balance the books. But while the county has forgiven $2.5 million in debt, the museum still has a substantial bank loan to repay.

The real challenge remaining for Peter Gerbasi, the deputy county executive who oversees Museum Row, is getting Nunley's Carousel spinning again. In storage since the county rescued it from the auction block more than a decade ago, the 1912 Baldwin merry-go-round, installed and restored on a plaza at Museum Row, would be the ultimate marketing success.

[Nunley]

Something wicked for gerbasi to do !

[six years of suozzola]

And NOW he comes up with a marketing plan for the Museums? And only now the Nunley Carousel may be emerging from the moth balls? And computers are still sitting in warehouses instead of desks? Suozzi stinks, and Newsday really has become pathetic and unreadable.

[Klurfeld and SUozzola]

Klurfeld covers for him. WHY?

[Song Parody Man Again]

Tom and Jim
(To the Tune of "Two of Us" by
Lennon & McCartney)


Tom and Jim riding nowhere
Spending someone's
Hard earned pay
Tom and Jim always lying
just denying
when they tax you outta your home
tax you outta your home
tax you outta your home
they'll take your home

Tom will send Jim a Op Ed
Write a letter
and someone takes the fall
Tom will then raise your taxes
while Jim relaxes
when they take your home
they're gonna take your home
they're gonna take your home
they got your home

Tom and Jim have memories
Longer than the road that Tom just can't repair

Tom and Jim wearing raincoats
Standing so low
In the sun
Jimmy boy edits his paper
Getting nowhere
while Tommy taxes your home
Tommy taxes your home
Tommy taxes your home
he takes your home

Tom and Jim have memories
Longer than the road that Tom just can't repair

Tom and Jim wearing raincoats
Standing so low
In the sun
Jimmy boy edits his paper
Getting nowhere
while tommy taxes your home
tommy taxes your home
tommy taxes your home
he takes your home

He'll tax our homes
Better believe it

[Let it Be]

Le t it Be

[Pandadoll]

Be the change you seek..............

If you don't like things, change them.

[Sage Advice]

Be the change you seek..............

If you don't like things, change them.


Next month political pettitioning starts....so, if you don't like what's going on....get up off your fat ass, pick a town or county office, make up your petition forms and go knock on doors.

If the people are pissed and disgruntled as you say, it should be easy to get more than the minimum signatures needed to qualify. Then, go raise money from those who support your position or that you can convince that you are the true alternative.

Then, go out and campaign to make a difference.

If it was too much work for you to just read this, then skip the petition process, as you are destined and doomed to be a do-nothing, naysaying couch potato.

If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem - maybe the problem itself.

So, for all you disgruntled used-to-bes and frustrated wannabes, Put Up or Shut Up

[I hate free speech]

Next month political pettitioning starts....so, if you don't like what's going on....get up off your fat ass, pick a town or county office, make up your petition forms and go knock on doors.

If the people are pissed and disgruntled as you say, it should be easy to get more than the minimum signatures needed to qualify. Then, go raise money from those who support your position or that you can convince that you are the true alternative.

Then, go out and campaign to make a difference.

If it was too much work for you to just read this, then skip the petition process, as you are destined and doomed to be a do-nothing, naysaying couch potato.

If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem - maybe the problem itself.

So, for all you disgruntled used-to-bes and frustrated wannabes, Put Up or Shut Up


Wow....that is a bit heavy. Someone can't take alittle criticism. Sounds like a thin skinned elected official who has his or her critics prosecuted. Lol

[Tommy...and Harvey]

strike again. Hey guys keeping telling us how the system is fixed. Its fixed all right-fixed so every year Suozzi can say no tax increase as taxes go through the roof. Harvey of course still kissing ass. Harvey last time I looked Suozzi made Rice the DA. Give it up.

Nassau lawmakers challenge thr own assessments

BY RD J. EPSTN
rd.epstn@newsday.com

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May 31, 2007

Two weeks ago, Legis. Diane Yatauro hosted a crowded hearing at which she bemoaned a system that results in a crushing number of people who challenge thr residential property assessments in Nassau County.

Even the Glen Cove Democrat herself has filed a challenge to the county's assessment on her $1.75-million home every year since 2002, records show.


Yatauro is one of six Nassau legislators who challenged thr assessments in recent years, placing them in the position of both setting the county's tax rate and appealing how much tax they pay.

Legislators Lisanne Altmann (D-Great Neck), Roger Corbin (D-Westbury), Denise Ford (R-Long Beach), Wayne Wink (D-Roslyn) and Minority Leader Peter Schmitt (R-Massapequa) have challenged thr assessments in the last two years.

Also, despite an unwritten rule that Suozzi administration bosses are not to file assessment challenges because it might reflect poorly on Suozzi, Peter Gerbasi, deputy county executive for public works, recved $1,500 in reduced taxes last year. His 2007 filing is pending.

The lawmakers are just a handful of the more than 130,000 single-family homeowners who challenged thr assessments last year. Nassau is expected to refund more than $20 million to homeowners whose taxes are reduced by the Assessment Review Commission and Small Claims Assessment Review. With more than 60,000 cases, Nassau accounts for more than 80 percent of the state's cases.

Yatauro, the chairwoman of the Government Services Committee, held the May 16 hearing to discuss why so many Nassau homeowners challenge assessments. Since the 2002 tax assessment, she has won challenges four times and lost three.

In total, she saved $1,257 in county taxes on her 1.8-acre property, which was assessed at $1.924 million before she won a reduction last year. Because Glen Cove maintains its own assessment rolls, Yatauro would have had to file a separate grievance for city and school taxes. Officials said she hasn't done that.

She challenged the $1.75-million figure for the 2008 tax roll, but was denied.

"I don't think I should be penalized if the price of my house is incorrect," she said, adding that she files challenges every year to protect herself from any changes in her nghborhood. "I'm not doing anything illegal. I'm going through the process like everybody else."

Ford, who like Yatauro hosts seminars on how residents can grieve property taxes, said it would be hypocritical not to challenge her assessment if she is training others to do so. "If I'm encouraging people to do it, then I felt I have the right to do it as well," said Ford, who lost her case this year.

Nassau Assessor Harvey Levinson said he has no problem with anyone fighting thr assessment. But he disagreed with the reductions Yatauro won, saying he believes her initial assessments were accurate.

Schmitt, who has criticized the assessment system, said there should be more challenges in the county.

"I intend to challenge it again next January and I urge everybody else to do the same," said Schmitt, who has lost cases the last two years. "I think the assessment is wrong. I think there's massive errors in it."

Gerbasi, the only high-ranking Suozzi official to grieve his taxes, said he challenged the assessment on his Lido Beach home because it is next to commercial property, a fact omitted in his assessment. He recved a $1,458 rebate last year and has a pending case for 2007 taxes.

"If it wasn't incorrect, I wouldn't have challenged it," he said. This year, "I expect that I'll get rejected, and then I'll be comfortable that it will be right."

Corbin could not be reached for comment, while Wink said that after the 2003 countywide assessment, his tax bill went up 53 percent. "It seemed to me that there was a need to look into whether the assessment was correct," he said.

Altmann, who lost challenges the last two years, said legislators must judge whether a potential tax reduction is worth the potential to anger voters.

"Is it worth ... the negative publicity, even if you're trying to do something you feel justified about?" she said.

Legis. David Mejias (D-North Massapequa), who has not filed challenges, said the county needs a system that allows elected officials, along with assessor's office employees, to have thr challenges heard by an independent panel.

"I just chose not to do it because I thought I shouldn't," he said. "I think it's an imperfect system and we need to make it a little bit better."

[height of hypocrisy]

Didn't Suozzi get friendly variance rulings from the Glen Cove ZBA so that he can essentially pay zero for his McMansion by subdividing his lot and selling it to a friendly developer? Ok, Suozzi can work the system but his employees are not allowed to challenge thr assessments because it might look bad for Harvey the Creep?

The Democratic legislators are such b*tches and punks. They know the system is flawed because it was designed to be that way. Anyone with even superficial knowledge of the players at the ARC and County Attorneys' office understand that the architects of the assessment system in Nassau supervised and managed the the corrupt New York City Department of Finance where 16 assessors were convicted on federal racketeering and bribery charges. These officials who came to Nassau under a cloud designed the system to be overly aggressive in assessments.

The County pays out $100,000,000 a year in reassessment challenges. Supposedly, the settlement agreement the County entered into before Judge Winslow was supposed to fix the system. Instead, the system is still broken, only Wall Street and the bonding companies still do not get it. Face it folks, the fiscal crisis is still looming in Nassau, and perhaps has gotten worse since Mr. Suozzi and Mr. Levinson are mismanaging and corrupting the assessment process, primarily to create an illusion that taxes aren't bng "raised," when indeed they are.

[Plain and Simple]

Didn't Suozzi get friendly variance rulings from the Glen Cove ZBA so that he can essentially pay zero for his McMansion by subdividing his lot and selling it to a friendly developer? Ok, Suozzi can work the system but his employees are not allowed to challenge thr assessments because it might look bad for Harvey the Creep?

The Democratic legislators are such b*tches and punks. They know the system is flawed because it was designed to be that way. Anyone with even superficial knowledge of the players at the ARC and County Attorneys' office understand that the architects of the assessment system in Nassau supervised and managed the the corrupt New York City Department of Finance where 16 assessors were convicted on federal racketeering and bribery charges. These officials who came to Nassau under a cloud designed the system to be overly aggressive in assessments.

The County pays out $100,000,000 a year in reassessment challenges. Supposedly, the settlement agreement the County entered into before Judge Winslow was supposed to fix the system. Instead, the system is still broken, only Wall Street and the bonding companies still do not get it. Face it folks, the fiscal crisis is still looming in Nassau, and perhaps has gotten worse since Mr. Suozzi and Mr. Levinson are mismanaging and corrupting the assessment process, primarily to create an illusion that taxes aren't bng "raised," when indeed they are.

TAXES HAVE MORE THAN DOUBLED IN NASSAU COUNTY OVER THE LAST 5 YRS, WITH NO OFFICIAL TAX LEVY INCREASE. HOW THE HELL DOES THIS HAPPEN? A CORRUPT ASSESSMENT PROCESS THAT MILKS THE TAXPAYERS ALL WHILE SMILING IN THR FACES. SUOZZI AND LEVINSON ARE LYING.
LOOK AT YOUR TAX BILLS, HOW CAN YOU BE SO COMPLACENT AND UNINFORMED? THESE CRIMINALS NEED TO GO.

[bed time for herr suozzi]

Nassau budget gaps to be reviewed

BY RD J. EPSTN
rd.epstn@newsday.com

June 10, 2007, 8:05 PM EDT

Possible Nassau County budget gaps that could total several hundred million dollars by 2010 will be on the agenda for Monday's meeting of the Legislature's Budget Review Committee.

According to a May report from the Legislature's Office of Legislative Budget Review, the county could have deficits of between $142 million and $241 million for fiscal years 2008-2010.

"Ultimately the success of the County will require a fundamental change in what services are provided," the the OLRB concluded in its report. "The county cannot continue to fund its expenses with the limited growth in revenues."

The county will likely finish 2007 with a small surplus, the report said, because of hundreds of employees who have left thr jobs and not been replaced.

Legis. Lisanne Altmann (D-Great Neck), the committee chairwoman, said today's hearing will focus on "big picture items" and how to craft a 2008 budget to reduce or eliminate the projected budget gaps. She also said the county's projection of $50 million in rebates for successful assessment challenges may be low.

"I'm concerned that we could easily get over that, given the fact that we've given out millions recently," Altmann said. "I want to get a handle on whether we're holding back on these settlements now in order to keep the number low for 2007."

County Executive Thomas Suozzi has proposed closing the budget gap with the help of a $2 county cigarette tax, red light cameras at busy intersections, video lottery terminals at Belmont Park. Each would require state approval.

Scheduled to speak at the 10 a.m. hearing are Eric Naughton, the Legislative Budget Review director; John Peguillan, the chairman of the Assessment Review Commission; and representatives from the Nassau County Police Department, Nassau Assessor Harvey Levinson's office and the county's Office of Management and Budget.
Copyright 2007 Newsday Inc.

[disgruntled taxpayer 1]

Looks like I was right all along. Sometimes you hate bng right.

[Christopher Q Hahn]

that's why I left shitfukker!

[Guest 23]

It's good to see DT back. Yes, sometimes it just sucks to be right, doesn't it?