CALL TO ACTION

Binding Arbitration: Fix It or End It!

PLANNING AND ZONING
Summer Schools

Secure your mandatory four hours of planning board and zoning board training in one place on one day for one low price!

Wednesday, July 24 • Melville Marriott :: Melville
Friday, July 26 • Days Inn :: Bath
Wednesday, July 31• Hyatt Place :: Malta
Friday, August 2 • Best Western Plus :: East Syracuse

Click here to register for any of these workshops and to view a tentative agenda.

NYCOM, as part of the Let NY Work coalition of local government, school and business groups, is calling on state lawmakers not to pass any new unfunded mandates on municipalities and schools this year. Members of the Let NY Work Coalition are launching a grassroots email and phone campaign designed to prevent state legislators from shifting the costs of its new programs onto local communities and their taxpayers. For more information and to be an active participant in this grassroots campaign, click here.

Business Opportunities

Welcome to NYCOM's Business Center. Through contact with NYCOM's strong coalition of city and village members, your company or organization can raise its profile with elected and appointed municipal officials in several ways:

• Join the NYCOM Network 
• Advertise in the NYCOM Municipal Marketplace
• Exhibit or Sponsor NYCOM Conferences and/or Workshops
• Call for Presentations 
• Purchase Municipal Mailing Labels 

MUNICIPAL PROPERTY
and Casualty Insurance

NYMIR is a non-profit property and casualty insurance program for New York's local governments. Established by NYCOM, Association of Counties, and The Association of Towns of the State of New York, it is the State's largest underwriter of municipal property and casualty risk, with nearly 700 city, village town and county subscribers.

STOP THE TAX SHIFT
Tax Shifting is Bad for New York

The New York State Conference of Mayors created a single-issue website www.StopTheTaxShift.org, to defend taxpayers from tax shifts that may be pushed from the state onto cities and villages.

Local officials and private citizens can and should use this site as a resource to help educate state leaders, legislators and opinion makers on those state mandates that are the key culprits in obstructing local officials efforts to control spending and property taxes.