Control board executive director Kenneth Vetter met with the county Legislature's Finance and Management Committee Tuesday, and noted that the county had collected its own taxes until the office was disbanded in 2003 during the county budget crisis.

Legislators are looking to hire as many as ten new staffers to collect back taxes.

County Comptroller Mark Poloncarz says the control board owes taxpayers an apology for failing to approve the tax lien sale, which he says would have netted the county $40 million. © Copyright 2010, WBFO