Deputy Speaker Williams on property tax reform submissions to Albany
Deputy Speaker Williams presses on whether the administration has formally submitted property tax reform proposals to the state. Commissioner Lee confirms no formal submission has been made yet but says reform remains a priority and the administration is building proposals off the advisory commission's recommendations.
So I'm going to pass it off to our deputy speaker, followed by the majority whip.
Hello.
Hi, Commissioner.
Hello.
I just wanted to follow up really quickly on Chair Lee's question about property taxes.
So I know a lot of it.
Requires state action, but the mayor and the OMB director, after the prelim budget briefing, committed to submitting something to Albany.
Like, when we've asked Albany, they say that it's the city that has to make recommendations, and, like, literally, out of Speaker Hastie's mouth.
So has the administration made any formal submissions to the state?
Regarding property taxes and if so like status anything you can add to that yes so i would say that property tax reform does remain a priority for the administration and the mayor
highlighting again some of the inequities in our property tax system i believe it was a priority at the onset of the year but as we got through the budget process when we had to close a historic 12 billion dollar
Our budget gap.
A lot of discussions that happened in Albany shifted towards that.
We are constantly in the process of reviewing property tax reform and some of the proposals that we'll have to go through and building off of the tax commission's recommendations.
So, but to formally say we have not submitted.
Okay, great.
You haven't submitted.
I would love for you all to like reprioritize this.
Absolutely.
Because as you know, they're going to go home.
So you have to try again for next session.