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- Authorize chairman to enter into a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement with New York County Road 67 and Majorana LLC — carried.

- Amend and adopt the Greene County Administrative Manual sections (employee tuition and employee health insurance) — carried.

- Adopt Columbia-Greene Community College 2025–26 operating budget — carried.

- Authorize agreement between Greene County and the Columbia-Greene Community College Foundation (payment authorization) — carried.

- Award bid for short-term rental compliance services and authorize future additions to the contract — carried.

- Approve multiple contracts between Greene County Sheriff’s Office and local central school districts (authorized agreements for school resource and related services) — carried.

- Budget amendment authorizing redesign of the tourism website and execution of related documents — carried. (Staff earlier said the current site will go dark Dec. 31 without action.)

- Budget amendment and authorization for the paramedic candidate training award — approved as amended.

- Budget amendment authorizing purchase of body and in-car camera inventory for the Greene County Sheriff’s Office — carried.

- Capital project amendments and approvals related to Casco transfer station new maintenance building (contract awards for general, mechanical and other construction phases) — carried.

- Amend capital project to authorize purchase of 300 Route 23B, Catskill, including an amendment reducing the purchase amount by $30,000 to an amended purchase price of $1,120,000 — carried as amended.

- Authorize sale and other actions related to several 23 in REM properties (titles and related procedures) — carried.

Most of the motions were opened, seconded and approved with the meeting record stating “All in favor? Aye” and “carried.” In multiple instances the transcript records the motion maker or seconder by surname (e.g., Davis) but does not provide a full roll-call tally in the spoken record. Where the transcript records follow-up procedural notes (for example, that certain items were amended before final approval), those amendments were adopted as part of the carried motions.

This roundup lists principal approvals from the session; individual staff or legal documents referenced in the meeting may contain full resolution numbers and exact contract amounts.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Greene County Committee Meetings - 8/18/25","oneSentenceSummary","The Greene County Legislature carried a series of resolutions on Aug. 18, including authorization of a solar PILOT agreement, adoption of the Columbia-Greene Community College operating budget, a tourism website redesign budget amendment, capital-project awards and several county contracts.","taxTitle","Greene County, New York","taxId",56521,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6491955,"Public questioning of 15-year solar PILOT schedule precedes Greene County approval of pilot agreement",361,1961000,2322000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5595115-aef07f323ec110e2f3ce8087bc774299&start=1961&end=2322","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5595115-aef07f323ec110e2f3ce8087bc774299/thumbnail_1961000.jpg","/articles/6491955/Greene-County/New-York/Public-questioning-of-15-year-solar-PILOT-schedule-precedes-Greene-County-approval-of-pilot-agreement","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6491955-dc6306e36663aa2c95f91ef06b14296a/orig.mp4?Expires=1773598661&Signature=F2wmkMw5Mfiglq89pXBsgk~sFImxZZLFpaWtGiHtLpe5RKgRjmo6ab~mzE0esOz-Cu-x2X0TDQq3yjb58SQK2mh3PiSJxIVirqQ2z3DUbD-Ih80EUJ7dlrGFKkcqDAMfpYPCRBBb2~SxAFU88kEoQAHbB2M7BHIcu63Gwx9cX6~KRLASAeQfuh8n1EuD4RtB-oRt6Q26gR41UWQ~kaHv5XRUUTZYao4pWZdECeOozOxUWO9WvxG7WsFrWt2ixx0BPU9KRkqtcGGA5WIbrsXI3ePe~QAlyGYK-KYSF72fVclaVttZ2-jjzAKkN~1tPE6HW0ARpoN~pG0xO79m9gyZKw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","A member of the public, introduced in the meeting as representing Catskill, asked detailed questions about a proposed 15-year solar payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) pilot that includes the town of Durham and the Greenville School District alongside Greene County.

The commenter asked whether the pilot required a public hearing; a county official replied that, “by statute,” it was not required and that the item is approved by roll-call vote. The commenter also asked whether each participating entity must approve the pilot for it to apply to that entity; the official answered that the pilot applies only to the entities that approve it—if one entity votes no, the pilot would not exist for that entity.

The public questioner highlighted the pilot’s payment schedule, noting the Greenville School District appeared to receive a large upfront payment of roughly $142,000 and asked whether that schedule was the result of a negotiated agreement between the project developer and the school district; staff said the schedule reflected an agreement with the school district.

The questioner also asked for an alternate schedule showing what taxes would have been without the pilot; staff acknowledged the schedule did not include a pre-pilot tax comparison and that such an alternate schedule was not provided in the materials.

During the same meeting the legislature voted on a resolution authorizing the chairman to enter into a PILOT agreement with New York County Road 67 and Majorana LLC. The legislature recorded the motion and the vote as carried.

The public exchange referenced “Real Property Tax Law at ’47” when discussing the statutory framework for solar exemptions; staff described the 15-year exemption timeline when explaining how such projects receive tax treatment under the cited real-property tax law provision.

No changes to the pilot’s schedule were recorded during the meeting; the resolution authorizing the chairman to execute the agreement with the project developer was carried by the legislature during the session.","A public question-and-answer exchange about a proposed 15-year solar PILOT—covering whether a public hearing was required, how payments are allocated and why a comparison schedule was not provided—preceded the Greene County Legislature’s vote to authorize a PILOT agreement with New York County Road 67 and Majorana LLC.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6491959,"Columbia-Greene Community College operating budget approved; LPN program, simulation center highlighted",849,2461000,3310000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5595115-aef07f323ec110e2f3ce8087bc774299&start=2461&end=3310","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5595115-aef07f323ec110e2f3ce8087bc774299/thumbnail_2461000.jpg","/articles/6491959/Greene-County/New-York/Columbia-Greene-Community-College-operating-budget-approved-LPN-program-simulation-center-highlighted","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6491959-0ddbbbd71efbea16e09237374749e438/orig.mp4?Expires=1773598661&Signature=C17UtP3HaXZWC5L64EIYsuVVakCR9aTuGMjARyUWeR5k6CTpuIScgZZK~wcTeyPXJer7cPx7-qjXDN9hjetgAN0~B6C8dyAFIvM7rmzRjbEEId2qI-NTnW0HapqLaQ9EQ0BZMjQn1XERxPfObh94BjQ2XVQ8Ol84JaNKvihE8E3SGfsSFYTyWrYKBFKOC2COqa0Ll9B3JEEGHtHZq9wyZ-DS0X6mcYvqI2yl2yyRndKNVlpt8eE1FCiyD7n~3SL0BsBfupgxm~X6GF7IFUyAeYRRBlVZCUhQHy9giufeixsVZqHyA77t~KJlSMXdFGvmbJnuLIAFzV9OVVGjJhtU2w__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Victoria Welsh, president of Columbia-Greene Community College, and Amanda Bishop, the college chief financial officer, presented the college’s 2025–26 operating budget and program updates to the Greene County Legislature; the legislature voted to adopt the operating budget during the meeting.

President Welsh said the college will launch a licensed practical nurse (LPN) program in spring 2026 with an anticipated 20–30 seats and plans to expand its RN program to 75 seats by fall 2026. She said the college is completing a nursing simulation center funded with nearly three-quarters of a million dollars in SUNY funding; the center will support nursing and allied-health training and staff invited legislators to visit once it opens.

CFO Amanda Bishop reviewed key budget assumptions: tuition rates will remain flat for 2025–26; the college projects an 8% decline in total tuition revenue compared with the 2024–25 budget driven largely by volatility in the prison-education program; continuing-education revenue is budgeted flat at about $200,000; and technology fees were increased from $180 to $300 per student after a peer review of other SUNY community colleges. Bishop said sponsor-contribution levels from the counties remain unchanged based on recent enrollment averages: Columbia County reported 604 students last year (three-year average 588) and Greene County reported 502 students last year (three-year average 528).

Bishop said the college will use increased foundation support this year (listed in the materials as $820,000) to help bridge operating needs and expects to manage a high-needs SUNY grant (about $1.5 million) that would yield indirect-cost recovery (noted at about $106,000) to the college. Compensation assumptions in the budget include a $2,000 annual increase for faculty and a $1.10 hourly increase for staff; benefits were projected to increase approximately 12%.

The legislature voted to adopt the 2025–26 operating budget for Columbia-Greene Community College during the session. Other college-related agenda items approved in the same meeting included an agreement between Greene County and the Columbia-Greene Community College Foundation and authorization of related payments listed on the agenda.

The presenters described workforce and program development priorities—health professions growth, virtual-reality instructional tools, SUNY Reconnect enrollment efforts for adults 25–55 and expanding noncredit workforce programming—and asked the legislature for continued county support for the college’s operations and programs.","The Greene County Legislature voted to approve Columbia-Greene Community College’s 2025–26 operating budget after presentations that highlighted a spring 2026 LPN program, expansion of RN seats and a new nursing simulation center funded with SUNY support.",{"_33":100,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":101,"_41":102,"_43":103,"_45":104,"_47":105,"_49":106,"_51":107,"_53":108,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":109,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":110,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6491964,"Greene County economic development staff outline tourism, Brownfields and DRI small-project fund plans",201,404000,605000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5595115-aef07f323ec110e2f3ce8087bc774299&start=404&end=605","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5595115-aef07f323ec110e2f3ce8087bc774299/thumbnail_404000.jpg","/articles/6491964/Greene-County/New-York/Greene-County-economic-development-staff-outline-tourism-Brownfields-and-DRI-small-project-fund-plans","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6491964-7a62de9410c4a4680458561ee5038d2e/orig.mp4?Expires=1773598661&Signature=YKBA3ohYp0n-3XVwHrtrz5nxjEu1meWNZza2~PpD85UvDmqqXTvX54gfAgMy6yRbZi4XOFTtXrkiB0QDr-zX~C06S4cHp6Dcx0NYmXO4Ei-vwwfXFdKFu6DQT2vT40b4n~zvuuX1n0UJ5S4I~zul~9aWRMY7Ua5i-qjZGvjhwby2mYpNXo8R4buVHHQNXPtPOHHRjdKbgllKvjOK1~Cg94-oEtL5aZHCnymKFlP3~RAXUhiOH9HDYtt31YsdEhZ7RNsu8B5ZLVyPlahYD0~vkRM8H-5RozetawXNfvZtCm~lmknov1pB~ZibB3T9jQcuPMA9kyULV0esDHNePtGXOA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Economic development staff told the Greene County Economic Development committee about staffing changes, program delays and several grant- and project-focused items that could affect local businesses and development projects.

The department introduced Jessica Dupont as its new economic and community development specialist; staff said Dupont previously worked in communications for the New York State Assembly and will be a point of contact for entry-level business assistance.

Staff reported three resolutions on the agenda related to microenterprise public hearings; two public-hearing notices contained required language errors that must be fixed, which delays the microenterprise program award process and pushes anticipated awards into early 2026 with a likely November decision on selections.

On brownfields, staff said county and Columbia County officials expect to start an EPA Brownfield Coalition Assessment grant this October to inventory contaminated sites in northern Columbia and Greene counties and move them toward redevelopment. That program had been delayed while EPA requested revisions to the project narrative.

Staff also described work on downtown revitalization initiatives (DRI/New York Forward) in Catskill and Athens. As part of the Catskill DRI, the village asked the county development corporation to sponsor a consolidated small-projects fund. Staff said they applied to administer a $600,000 fund that would pool multiple small renovation or equipment grants (for projects below typical DRI thresholds) and that the corporation could claim up to 10% of project costs for administration—about $60,000 on a $600,000 fund—if awarded. Staff said the corporation would not provide the fund’s capital up front; rather, applicants would spend on projects, submit receipts, and the program would reimburse eligible expenses after review and Housing Trust Fund Corporation approval.

Staff noted the county tourism website is slated to go dark Dec. 31 unless the legislature approves funding for redesign and hosting; the tourism director, Patty Austin, was present to answer questions about the contract and maintenance costs. County staff also described a planned satellite Greene County presence at the community college annex (a Cascale/Catskill satellite) to reduce operating costs for the First Development Board of Columbia and Greene Counties and to reallocate rent savings into programming.

Committee members asked about oversight for a DRI-administered small-projects fund, whether the county would be the subrecipient for grant compliance, and how advertising and pass-through costs were allocated in the tourism contract. Staff said selection committees would include EDC board members, meetings would be open to the public and recorded, and administrative fees offset some implementation costs. Staff committed to provide additional contract detail about advertising pass-throughs and to follow up on the timing and outreach for the microenterprise round.

Several of the program items and budget changes discussed appear on the legislature’s agenda for formal votes later in the meeting.","County economic development staff briefed the committee on a new hire, delays to microenterprise awards, a planned EPA Brownfields assessment this fall, a proposed $600,000 DRI small-projects fund (county to act as sponsor/administrator) and a tourism website redesign that needs funding before hosting ends Dec. 31.",{"_33":112,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":113,"_41":114,"_43":115,"_45":116,"_47":117,"_49":118,"_51":119,"_53":120,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":121,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":122,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6491969,"Catskills Comedy Festival asks Greene County for $3,000 student-workshop grant",190,60000,250000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5595115-aef07f323ec110e2f3ce8087bc774299&start=60&end=250","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5595115-aef07f323ec110e2f3ce8087bc774299/thumbnail_60000.jpg","/articles/6491969/Greene-County/New-York/Catskills-Comedy-Festival-asks-Greene-County-for-3000-student-workshop-grant","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6491969-51fc318e25b81fc7050d8ec4f5a03c41/orig.mp4?Expires=1773598661&Signature=Xh7Xee5tuEi-wHWtIdIjocr2ac0psQlEGcSwlYHwViZbF-twqSfEVpO2oBy9l-N~Afk-HzyxxHNt-DDhy5BN-Z53HUEO0y6A0YwldlHi-zd-eIFjChKuesMRQprmfyR-6eVwxAL8OjMiivz57Sgxx1CxwJym3EdSd~kv-mTdleIcru5DIIiTGP~roCeWlm8tq-bMzMpYD6qLI9gRbTqU~9LOsJmwedoBpOkVv6iqQxnfXaCoNVxzX92bmv2Lh0laOagTkHlJKvCM2R-Bl69EsNMe7slBmQnmM3mtdxVfiWylLZo3dgkZAu1lluul6VzPk5gUzA3OGQk1fBs93ecK0A__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Stefan Bradsister, an organizer with the Catskills Comedy Festival, asked the Greene County Economic Development committee for a $3,000 W.C. Steemberg grant to support student workshops connected to the festival scheduled for Oct. 17–19.

Bradsister said the nonprofit sold a little more than 1,000 tickets in its first year and is budgeting this year for about 1,600 tickets; the festival budget is “a little over $51,000,” he said, and the group has raised about $48,000 so far. He told the committee the workshops—stand-up, storytelling and physical comedy—cost about $4,500 and are intended for high-school students (with recommended younger students accepted in some cases). The workshops culminate in a performance during the festival.

Bradsister described the festival’s venues as including the Community Theater (two theaters, a 500-seat downstairs and a 220-seat upstairs), Avalon Lounge and Bridge Street Theater. He said the festival’s goals include drawing visitors downtown, benefiting local merchants by working with the merchants association and expanding the festival footprint into neighboring towns such as Tannersville and Athens as it grows.

Bradsister said the festival has engaged instructors from regional programs—Lauren Kinchlow’s stand-up school in Kingston, Christina Teitlin and Caitlin Langsford for storytelling, and performer Peter Daniel Strauss for physical comedy and clowning—and expects student recruitment to begin when schools reopen in September. He said the organizers will make a video for school announcements and work with Michelle Storrs at Catskill High School on outreach.

Committee members asked about dates, venues and outreach; Bradsister confirmed the Oct. 17–19 schedule and said festival organizers have not yet begun school sign-ups but plan to start in early September. He said ticket sales are treated conservatively in budgeting as a “wild card.”

The committee did not vote on the request during the presentation; Bradsister closed by reiterating the $3,000 ask to the W.C. Steemberg grant.","Organizers of the Catskills Comedy Festival told the Greene County Economic Development committee they seek $3,000 from the W.C. Steemberg grant to support student workshops tied to the October festival, and said the festival expects to sell more than 1,600 tickets this year.","actionData","errors"]

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