Friday, June 1, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Auction numbers shrink as properties are removed from sale.
The 195 parcels scheduled for Wednesday’s Ulster County Public Auction has been dramatically reduced as sixty-nine (69) properties have been removed after being redeemed or withheld as a result of court orders.
The sale begins at 9:30AM on the campus at SUNY ULSTER in Vanderlyn Hall.
Find the listing at http://www.ulstercountyny.gov/downloads/2012%20Ulster%20County%20Public%20Auction.pdf
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
FROM ASSITING CRIME VICTIMS TO BEING A VICTIM OF A CRIME
17,000 minutes racked up on unaccounted for Ulster government cell phone
(Copyright © 2011 Mid-Hudson News Network, a division of Statewide News Network, Inc)
KINGSTON – An audit of Ulster County government cell phone use has uncovered a missing phone assigned to the county Probation Department’s Crime Victim’s Assistance Program that someone ran up 17,000 minutes of calling time over a two-month period.
County Comptroller Elliott Auerbach said the bill totaled $1,843.
Investigation reveals the chain of custody was broken “and it looks as if the county has suffered as a result of this abuse of taxpayers’ money,” he said.
Auerbach has turned over his information to District Attorney Holley Carnright’s office to determine if there are possible criminal charges.
Auerbach was very critical of county cell phone use and policy in a June 2009 report and he called on county policy makers to “revisit county cell phone use, reduce the hundreds of devices that are county issued, and provide a monthly allowance for those employees who use their personal cell phone for county business.”
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
STAKE YOUR CLAIM!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/82320005
FOUND MONEY
A BILLION DOLLAR BONANZA COULD AWAIT ULSTER COUNTY
KINGSTON, NY (February 22, 2012)…. Ulster County Comptroller Elliott Auerbach alerted dozens of local governments, school and fire districts, little leagues, ambulance corps, local courts and police departments in the county that there is money waiting for them as part of the Office of the State Comptroller’s (OSC) unclaimed funds account. The total being held by the State is close to $11 billion dollars for over twenty-six million accounts.
As part of an intern project, Auerbach’s staff combed records that identified monies being held by the State as a result of unclaimed funds from dormant bank accounts, insurance benefits, trust funds, estate proceedings and other idle holdings that have been surrendered after two to five years of account inactivity. “We have identified and contacted numerous organizations and governments in the County, including entities like the Woodstock Fire Department, the Marlborough School District, the Town of Shandaken and the Rondout Valley Little League informing them that there is money waiting to be claimed on their behalf,” Comptroller Auerbach said. “New York State holds these unclaimed funds in a trust, and OSC has processed more than 600,000 claims and has paid out approximately $296 million dollars,” according to Auerbach.
Comptroller Auerbach stated “this is not only an opportunity for local governments, not for profits and community based organizations, but for individuals as well. OSC boasts that the largest personal account paid was for $4 million dollars and is currently holding an unclaimed individual account of $1.7 million dollars. Before you get your hopes up to high I would just like to point out however, that 63% of the claims have been less than $100.00.”
To find out more go to www.osc.state.ny.us/ouf
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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