Comptroller at odds with Erie County over COVID-19 fines
County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw enacted a policy directing that payment of such fines be sent not to the health department but to his office. Author: Dave McKinley Updated: 7:41 PM EST January 15, 2021
BUFFALO, N.Y. Erie County s comptroller claims the county’s health department is failing to follow some new rules he set up as the county s chief fiscal officer.
These rules have to do with how businesses who get fined for COVID-related infractions are supposed to pay them.
In December, after an Orchard Park Gym got fined $15,000 by the health department for alleged COVID-19 infractions, County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw enacted a policy directing that payment of such fines be sent not to the health department but to his office, where he also set up a repayment schedule, which, depending on the severity of the fines, allowed up to 100 years for such fines to be paid.