Member of the Salmon Rivers Council of Governments
(Pursuant to Section 516 of the Real Property Tax Law)
Notice is hereby given that the Assessment Roll for the Town of Parish, in the County of Oswego for the year 2021, has been finally completed by the undersigned Assessor, and a certified copy thereof was filed in the office of the Town Clerk, on the 1st day of July, 2021, where the same will remain open to public inspection.
Dated this 1st day of July, 2021
Denise J. Trudell, IAO
Assessor of the Town of Parish
The 2020 Parish exemptions impacts report, which is part of the town’s 2021 tentative and preliminary budget, is now available below and on the town’s Documents and Forms page.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, The Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ending 2019 for the Town of Parish is on file in the Parish Town Clerk’s Office located at 2938 E. Main Street, Parish, NY in the Village Gym. The Financial Report is available during regular business hours for inspection.
Kelly Reader
Parish Town Clerk
0722/2020
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, The Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ending 2018 for the Town of Parish is on file in the Parish Town Clerk’s Office located at 2938 E. Main Street, Parish, NY in the Village Gym. The Financial Report is available during regular business hours for inspection.
Kelly Reader
Parish Town Clerk
9/6/2019
The New York State Comptroller has completed the examination of the town’s financial condition and supervisor’s records for the period of January 1, 2017 – July 31, 2018. It was released May 29, 2019. It is available on this web site on the Documents, Forms, and Reports page, and directly at the following link:
The Comptroller’s web page with additional background related to the examination can be found at https://osc.state.ny.us/localgov/audits/towns/2019/parish-58.htm.
The New York State Comptroller’s Office recently released an audit of the town of Parish for the period of January 1, 2017 through July 31, 2018.
The audit is available at https://www.osc.state.ny.us/localgov/audits/towns/2019/parish-58.htm, or at the link following.
The state comptroller’s office offered this summary of the report:
The Board needs to improve its monitoring of the Town’s financial operations and take timely action to maintain the Town’s financial stability. The Board did not adopt structurally balanced budgets and did not monitor the budgets throughout the year. As a result, the Town accumulated excessive fund balances in its general funds of about $1 million and deficit fund balances in its highway funds of over $1.1 million at the end of 2017. When combined together, the general and highway town-wide funds ended 2017 with a deficit fund balance of about $166,000. The Board did not fully understand the impact of appropriating fund balance each year. As a result, it did not adopt structurally balanced budgets that provided for sufficient recurring revenues to finance recurring expenditures. Furthermore, the Board did not adequately monitor the budget. Because officials did not maintain sufficient levels of fund balance in the highway funds to support current operations, the Town relied on interfund loans and short-term borrowings during our audit period. Finally, the Supervisor did not provide the Board with accurate financial reports for managing financial condition.