City overpaid Nassau County for a decade

By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com

Nassau County was expected to issue refunds totaling $1,583,000 to Glen Cove and the Glen Cove City School District this week. The refunds will resolve the accidental overpayment to the county of payments in lieu of taxes from 2010 to 2021, which were discovered during a 2021 audit of the city’s Industrial Development Agency by the state controller’s office.

li’s office discovered overpayments to the county in an audit for the fiscal years 2017 and 2018. The report concluded that eight of the nine projects involving PILOTs in those years made payments that were based on percentages calculated by the city.

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fibrosis, NF, which has been historically underfunded, can be inherited or result from a spontaneous gene mutation. There is currently no cure.

Despite the likelihood of a bleak future, Penny lived a full life in Glen Cove with her friends; her parents, Kate and Chad, and her brothers, Frankie and Henry.

“Ever since Penny was a little girl, with her big, bright eyes, kind smile and bouncing curls, we knew she was very special,” Kate said at her daughter’s memorial. “After Penny’s first surgery, she would commando-crawl in her bright pink body cast across the room with a big smile and the determination of a little warrior that we would watch for so many

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That audit, and further calculations from Mike Piccirillo, the city’s controller, found that some of the payments that should have gone to Glen Cove and the school district had gone to the county instead. The county will refund $778,000 to the city and $805,000 to the school district.

MIKE PICCIRILLO controller, Glen Cove

DiNapoli’s office reviewed the projects to determine whether the PILOTs were correctly allocated using the real property tax amounts that would have been due in 2017 and 2018. His office determined that the schedules used by the city were never adjusted to correspond to the changing city and county tax rates and assessments.

The city Industrial Development Agency incorrectly calculated how to divide PILOT payments from 2010 to 2021. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapo -

The report also found that Amy Franklin, the principal account clerk in the city’s finance department, working for the controller, said she used a schedule prepared by former controllers Sal Lombardi and Sandra Yu-Clarson as the source for how much was alloCONTINUED ON PAGE 2