NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COUNTY OF STEUBEN
LOCAL LAW TENTATIVELY NO. THREE FOR THE YEAR 2025
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Steuben County Legislature will hold a Public Hearing at the Steuben County Legislative Chambers, 3rd Floor, Annex Building, 20 East Morris Street, Bath, New York on the 24th day of November, 2025, at 11:30 a.m. upon 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.
The Legislative Chambers are accessible to persons with disabilities. If special accommodations are needed for persons with disabilities, those with hearing impairments, or those in need of translation from English, those individuals should contact the Clerk of the Legislature's Office at 607-664-2247 at least one week in advance of the hearing date to allow for necessary arrangements.
Said Local Law is as follows:
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 2026 SALARY
Commissioners of Elections $ 80,869
Commissioner of Public Works $ 133,806
Commissioner of Finance $ 133,806
Commissioner of Social Service $ 148,040
County Clerk $ 98,806
Director of Real Property $ 95,164
Personnel Officer $ 133,806
Sheriff $ 124,878
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.
"NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Local Law is subject to a permissive referendum of the qualified electors of Steuben County. Such referendum may be required by filing, within forty-five (45) days after its adoption with the undersigned Clerk of the County Legislature, a petition protesting against such 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 10 (10%) per centum of the total votes cast for Governor at the last gubernatorial election in the County."
ALL PERSONS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AND BE HEARD.
"BY ORDER OF THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE
OF STEUBEN COUNTY"
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a copy of the full text of Local Law Tentatively No. Three for the Year 2025 is available in the Clerk of the Legislature's Office and via the internet at www.steubencountyny.gov.
Dated: October 29, 2025
Village of Bath, New York
BRENDA K. SCOTCHMER
CLERK OF THE LEGISLATURE
COUNTY OF STEUBEN
November 11 2025
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