Nassau County Tax Assessor Harvey Levinson will be allowed to make a pitch before a state commission for using the income tax to fund local schools, but he won’t get as much time as he asked for.
“I will need about 45 minutes to make my presentation,” Levinson said last week in a letter to Thomas Suozzi, the Nassau County executive and the chairman of the New York State Commission on Property Tax Relief.
Asked about that Wednesday, Suozzi said: “He certainly will be welcome. I don’t think any witness will get more than five minutes. We have a lot to get through.”
The commission, formed by the governor to address the problem of soaring property taxes, held its inaugural meeting last week in Manhattan and will hold its next meeting Tuesday in Albany. A date has not been set for Levinson’s testimony.
--Bill Murphy