County Executive Bruce Blakeman has touted "four straight budgets without a tax increase" since taking office in 2022. The county portion of your bill has indeed held roughly flat. The total bill has not. Here's the difference, the data, and what it means for your wallet.
Your Nassau County property tax bill is the sum of levies from multiple independent taxing jurisdictions:
The County Executive controls only the second of these — the Nassau County portion. When Blakeman says he hasn't raised property taxes, he's accurate about the county portion, which is ~10–15% of your bill. He has no direct authority over the school, town, village, or special-district portions, which together make up ~85–90% of what you pay.
The other jurisdictions have continued to raise levies under the New York 2% tax cap (or, when piercing the cap, by more):
The net effect: typical Nassau homeowners have seen total bills grow ~2–3% per year on average since 2022, even though the county portion of those bills has been flat.
Per a Yahoo News / OnTheIssues report from April 2026, Blakeman voted to raise property taxes twice during his earlier stint as Presiding Officer of the Nassau County Legislature — once in 1995 (a 0.6% increase) and once in 1999 (a 9.4% increase). His current campaign messaging frames him as someone who has "never raised taxes," which critics argue is inconsistent with the 1990s votes.
This is a political fact-check question, not a property-tax question. Both can be true: Blakeman did vote to raise taxes in the legislature in the 1990s, AND Blakeman's budgets as County Executive (2022–2026) have not raised the county-portion levy.
Three structural reasons:
If your bill is up significantly since 2022 and you live in a non-piercing district, the cause is almost always one of these three, not county budget growth.
He froze the Nassau County portion of your bill. If your bill went up, the cause is elsewhere — most often the school district or a lost exemption.
No. School districts are independent units of government with their own elected boards. The County Executive has no direct authority over their levies. The only check on school levy growth is the NY State 2% tax cap, which schools can pierce with 60% voter approval.
Same answer. Town supervisors and boards set town levies. Blakeman is County Executive — he doesn't set Hempstead, North Hempstead, or Oyster Bay town budgets.
Modestly. If the county portion is ~12% of a typical $13,000 Nassau bill, a 2%/yr freeze on that portion saves ~$31/yr per year of freeze. Over four years, ~$124 cumulative. The total bill, driven by schools, has likely grown $1,000+ over the same period.
Lay your current tax bill next to last year's and check each line's rate column. The jurisdictions with the biggest rate jumps are the drivers. Most LI homeowners see the school district as the largest contributor.
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