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ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act
ADA - Assistant District Attorney
ADP - Auburn Downtown Partnership
AFPB - Agriculture and Farmland Protection Board
AFT - American Farmland Trust
ATI - Alternatives to Incarceration

BAR - Board of Assessment & Review
BOCES - Board of Cooperative Educational Services
BOE - Board of Elections
BOH - Board of Health

CC - Cayuga County
CCIDA - Cayuga County Industrial Development Agency
CCPB - Cayuga County Planning Board
CCPED - Cayuga County Planning & Economic Development Department
CCC - Cayuga Community College
CCCVB - Cayuga County Convention & Visitors Bureau
CCE - Cornell Cooperative Extension
CCLDC - Cayuga County Local Development Corporation
CCNH - Cayuga County Nursing Home
CCOFA - Cayuga County Office for the Aging
CCSWCD - Cayuga County Soil and Water Conservation District
CDBG - Community Development Block Grant
CDC - Centers for Disease Control (national)
CENTRO - Central New York Regional Transportation Authority
CHA - Community Health Assessment
CHIPS - Consolidated Highway Improvement Program
CHHA - Certified Home Health Agency
CLSB - Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
CNH - County Nursing Home
CNY - Central New York
CNYP - Central New York Purchasing System
CNYRPDB - Central NY Regional Planning & Development Board
CPI - Consumer Price Index
CSC - Civil Service Commission
CSCN - Children with Special Care Needs
CVB - Convention and Visitors Bureau

DA - District Attorney
D.A.R.E. - Drug Awareness and Resistance Education
DABID - Downtown Auburn Business Improvement District
DEC - Department of Environmental Conservation (New York State)
DEIS - Draft Environmental Impact Statement
DMV - Department of Motor Vehicles
DOH - Department of Health
DOS - Department of State
DOT - Department of Transportation (New York State)
DSS - Department of Social Services
DV - Domestic Violence
DWI - Driving While Intoxicated

E911 - Emergency 911 Center (see PSAP)
EAF - Environmental Assessment Form
EAP - Employee Assistance Program
ED - Economic Development
EI - Early Intervention
EIS - Environmental Impact Statement
EISEP - Expanded In-Home Services for the Elderly Program
EMC - Environmental Management Council
EMS - Emergency Management System
EMO - Emergency Management Office
ESA - Environmental Site Assessment
ESD - Empire State Development
EOC - Emergency Operations Center
EZ - Empire Zone

FAA - Federal Aviation Administration
FCC - Federal Communications Commission
FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency
FLA - Finger Lakes Association
FLLS - Finger Lakes Library System
FLLT - Finger Lakes Land Trust
FOIA - Freedom of Information Act (Federal)
FOIL - Freedom of Information Law (New York)
FTE - Full Time Equivalent

GASB - Government Accounting Standards Board
GIS - Geographic Information System
GPS - Global Positioning System

HEAP - Home Energy Assistance Program
HHS - Health and Human Services
HHW - Household Hazardous Waste (the annual clean up events)
HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HR - Human Resources
HRC - Human Rights Commission
HSC - Human Services Coalition
HUD - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

IAGT - Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology
ICLEI - International Council on Local Environmental Initiatives
IDA - Industrial Development Agency
IT - Information Technology Department

LDC - Local Development Corporation
LEPC - Local Emergency Planning Committee
LTC - Long Term Care
LTCAO - Long Term Care Access Office

MNWR - Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
MOMS - Medicaid Obstetrical Maternal Services

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NegDec - Negative Declaration (of environmental impact)
NPS - National Park Service
NYSAC - New York State Association of Counties
NYSDEC - New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
NYSDOH - New York State Department of Health
NYSDOT - New York State Department of Transportation
NYSEMO - New York State Emergency Management Office
NYSOPRHP - New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation

OFT - Office for Technology (New York State)
ORPS - Office of Real Property Services (New York State)
OTB - Off Track Betting
OWLA - Owasco Lake Watershed Association

PAR - Project Approval Request
PCI - Personal Consumption Index
PDR - Purchase of Development Rights (state farmland protection program)
PERS - Personal Emergency Response System
PILOT - Payment in Lieu of Taxes
PINS - Persons in Need of Supervision
PIO - Public Information Officer
PosDec - Positive Declaration (of environmental impact)
PRI - Patient Review Instrument
PSAP - Public Safety Answering Point

QOL - Quality of Life

RACNE - NASA Regional Applications Center for the North East
RFP - Request for Proposals
RFQ - Request for Qualifications
RFQ - Request for Quotes
RICS - Reduced Incarceration Community Service
RPS - Real Property Services

SEQR - State Environmental Quality Review
SHPO - State Historic Preservation Office
SPCA - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
STAR - School Tax Relief
STOA - State Transit Operating Assistance
STOP DWI - Special Traffic Options Programs for Driving While Intoxicated
STP - Strategic Tourism Planning
SWCD - Soil and Water Conservation District
SWN - Statewide Wireless Network
SYEP - Summer Youth Employment Program

TEG - Team for Economic Growth - Group involved in economic development efforts
TSA - Transportation Security Administration (federal)
TSB - Traffic Safety Board

UCC - Uniform Commercial Code
USGS - U.S. Geological Survey

VEBA - Voluntary Employee Benefit Account

WDB - Workforce Development Board
WIC - Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
WQMA - Water Quality Management Agency
WRAP - Weatherization Referral and Assistance Program

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Updated: 7/1/2009