NOTICE OF FINAL ADOPTION LOCAL LAW TENTATIVELY NO. THREE FOR THE YEAR 2025 SUBJECT TO A PERMISSIVE REFERENDUM

NOTICE OF FINAL ADOPTION LOCAL LAW TENTATIVELY NO. THREE FOR THE YEAR 2025 SUBJECT TO A PERMISSIVE REFERENDUM NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that County of Steuben Local Law Tentatively No. Three for the Year 2025, Establishing the Annual Salaries of Certain Elected or Appointed Officials and Department Heads of the County of Steuben Who Have A Fixed Term of Office for the Fiscal Year 2026, was finally adopted by the Steuben County Legislature on the 24th day of November, 2025. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that said Local Law is subject to a permissive referendum of the qualified electors of the County of Steuben. Such referendum may be required by the filing of a petition within forty-five (45) days from the date of adoption with the undersigned Clerk of the County Legislature at her office in the Village of Bath, New York, protesting against said Local Law, signed and authenticated as required by qualified electors of the County registered to vote therein at the last preceding general election in number equal to ten (10%) per centum of the total of votes cast for Governor at the last gubernatorial election in the County. Said Local Law is fully set forth as follows: SECTION 1: Except where inconsistent by operation of law due to prohibitions of increases of compensation during a fixed term of office for County officers and employees as provided in County Law §201 and Municipal Home Rule Law §24(2)(h), the "Steuben County Management Evaluation and Salary Plan", Administrative Code of the County of Steuben Part X be, and the same hereby is, applicable to officers and employees having a fixed term of office, whether elected or appointed, as are any and all resolutions of the Steuben County Legislature relative to rights and entitlements of County executive and management personnel. SECTION 2: Effective with the first county payroll for the County Fiscal Year 2026, the annual salaries of the certain elected or appointed officials and department heads of the County of Steuben who have a fixed term of office are hereby established for the Fiscal Year 2026 as follows, to wit: TITLE 2025 SALARY 2026 SALARY Commissioners of Elections $ 76,367 $ 80,869 Commissioner of Public Works $126,454 $133,806 Commissioner of Finance $126,454 $133,806 Commissioner of Social Service $143,728 $148,040 County Clerk $ 90,217 $ 98,806 Director of Real Property $ 89,796 $ 95,164 Personnel Officer $122,999 $133,806 Sheriff $118,098 $124,878 SECTION 3: Should any of the above positions become vacant and subsequently filled by one other than the present incumbent, the salary shall in that instance be set by the Legislature prior to filling said vacancy. SECTION 4: If any part of this Local Law shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. SECTION 5: This Local Law shall become effective, subject to a permissive referendum, forty-five (45) days after the date of its final adoption and on the date it is duly filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York and in accordance with the provisions of the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York. THIS NOTICE OF PERMISSIVE REFERENDUM concerning said Local Law is published in accordance with the resolution of the County Legislature of the County of Steuben duly adopted on the 24th day of November, 2025, and in accordance with the provisions of the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York. Dated: December 11, 2025 Bath, New York ROCHELLE CASSELBURY DEPUTY CLERK OF THE LEGISLATURE COUNTY OF STEUBEN Publication Dates LNYS0424001