ALBANY - Any property tax cap proposal in New York State must be accompanied by real reform to the state’s broken public service delivery system that requires county property taxpayers to fund Medicaid and a full array of State human service programs, according to the New York State Association of Counties.

NYSAC last week launched a campaign to raise awareness to the fact that county property tax levies are set in the state capitol, not in county legislative chambers.

Currently, nine state mandates consume 90 percent of the county property tax levy statewide. In some individual counties, the percentage of the tax levy is much greater than that. The mandated programs include: Medicaid, public assistance/safety net, child welfare, preschool special education, early intervention, indigent defense, probation, youth detention and pensions