Monroe County Legislator Jim Sheppard says he’s one of the people whose local passport fee was waived by the County Clerk’s Office. At the time, Sheppard was Rochester’s police chief. He says in a statement that he went down to the clerk’s office and paid the $25 fee today. He says he did not ask […]
Monroe County Clerk Adam Bello says he’s found more than $35,000 in fees which should have been collected by the clerk’s office were waived for certain “privileged” individuals before he took over the office. Those include the portion of some 600 passport applications, a notary public and more than 50 pistol permit application fees which […]
Monroe County’s Task Force on Vacant and Abandoned Properties will hold three public meetings around the county, looking for problems that need solving and ideas on how to do it. County Clerk Adam Bello says they’ve been meeting with a variety of interests since April about Zombie Properties: those foreclosed homes and business structures that […]