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Charles Berman was appointed by the Town Board to replace Rocco Iannarelli who stepped down after six years to accept a position with the New York Power Authority (NYPA). This is the second time that Charlie has served as the Town of North Hempstead Receiver of Taxes.
Charlie is a proven government affairs professional with a solid administrative background in business. His career in public service began when he was appointed Deputy Town Clerk for the Town of Oyster Bay in 2000. Charlie was responsible for overseeing the day to day operations of the department. He assisted the elected clerk in providing quality service in a professional, courteous and cost-effective manner. Charlie helped to revitalize and modernize the Town Clerk’s office and he oversaw the implementation of the state’s automated hunting and fishing license system. He also opened the first US passport application facility in a Town Clerk’s office on Long Island.
Starting in August of 2003, Charlie was appointed North Hempstead Receiver of Taxes to succeed Ann Galante who stepped down to care for her ailing husband. He was responsible for the collection and distribution of all County, School, General, and Special District taxes within the Town of North Hempstead. While in office Charlie’s department mailed 180,000 tax bills and sent 100,000 electronic bills through Tax Service Organizations during four collection cycles. They also received and posted 288,000 tax payments, including 10,000 payments in person at Town Hall, and they handled 60,000 telephone calls from the public. Charlie implemented the first lockbox system for a Receiver of Taxes in Nassau County. This allowed tax payments to get deposited into the bank within 24 hours after being received at the post office and resulted in a much more efficient operation. It also increased interest income for the town which helped to reduce tax levies.
In 2004, Charlie was appointed to serve as Assistant to the Chairman of the Nassau County Board of Assessors. There he served as the chairman’s liaison to all divisions within the department. He wrote personal correspondence, did case work, and answered constituent inquiries. He also worked on special assignments including: coordinating the department’s successful investigation of the over-billing practices of property tax reduction consultants with the NYS Attorney General’s office. In 2009, the new County Assessor promoted Charlie to Director of the Assessment Assistance Division. There he helped to direct community services programs for the department and supervised a professional staff of over 30 CSEA clerical and call center personnel and field assessors.
Before his life in public office, Charlie was the Executive Vice President of Berman Agency, Inc. a family owned insurance brokerage firm that specialized in property and casualty, disability and life insurance products for personal and commercial clients. Prior to that he was the Director of Operations of Pandick Technologies, Inc. NY, a division of Pandick Press, which was a financial printer and a NYSE company. He received his bachelor’s degree from SUNY Albany.
Charlie grew up in Nassau County and has been a resident of Roslyn Heights since 1988. He has long been active in his community and in his Temple. He served as Brotherhood President from 1995 – 1998 and as President of Temple Sinai of Roslyn from 2005 – 2007. During his tenure as President, Temple Sinai successfully completed the largest renovation and building project in its history. Charlie has been married for over 27 years to Lisa Berman who is an accomplished actress and singer in community theatre on Long Island. They are the proud parents of three children. Jeremy, a graduate of Northwestern University and Teachers College, Columbia University, is a secondary social studies teacher, Rebecca, a senior at Roslyn High School, and Ben, an 8th grader at Roslyn Middle School.
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