NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COUNTY OF STEUBEN LOCAL LAW TENTATIVELY NO. FOUR FOR THE YEAR 2025

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COUNTY OF STEUBEN LOCAL LAW TENTATIVELY NO. FOUR 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 15th day of December, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. upon County of Steuben Local Law Tentatively No. Four 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 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 has a fixed term of office are hereby established for the Fiscal Year 2026 as follows, to wit: TITLE 2025 SALARY 2026 SALARY County Clerk $ 90,217 $ 101,745 SECTION 3: Should the above position 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. "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. Four for the Year 2025 is available in the Clerk of the Legislature's Office and via the internet at www.steubencountyny.gov. Dated: December 1, 2025 Village of Bath, New York ROCHELLE CASSELBURY DEPUTY CLERK OF THE LEGISLATURE COUNTY OF STEUBEN December 5 2025 LNYS0416780