Nassau: As Property Assessment Freeze Continues For 4th Year, Blakeman Targets Transgender Athletes

“Nassau County has frozen its property tax rolls for a fourth straight year and made it easier for challengers to win reductions — factors that also expand inequities in assessments and erode the accuracy of the rolls,” reported Newsday. “By continuing to freeze, ‘property assessments are no longer based on their actual value,’ said Jonathan Miller, president and CEO of Miller Samuels, a Manhattan appraisal firm that publishes Long Island housing market reports for real estate firm Douglas Elliman.”

Meanwhile, “Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman (R) Thursday signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports at county facilities,”  reported WCBS-TV. “Critics blasted the order as unnecessary, divisive, illegal, and hurtful to already at-risk kids. But Blakeman said it is common sense fairness and is about protecting women and girls. Nassau Legislative Minority Leader  Delia DeRiggi Whitton (D-Glen Cove, Port Washington) replied: “Nassau County residents were falsely promised tax cuts and a fairer property assessment system from this county executive, instead they received a county executive who has been more interested in self-promotion by spending public money on private golf outings, swanky galas, and unrelated press conferences - such as today's focus on legislating little leagues, which has nothing to do with his responsibilities.”