The Town of Clinton Town Board on Oct. 14 took a series of routine and governance votes, including adopting a local law to override the tax-levy limit for the coming fiscal year and approving several administrative resolutions and personnel actions.

Key outcomes

- Adopted: local law to override the tax levy limit (resolution number of 2025) — Board discussion noted the authority is precautionary and members said they do not intend to exceed the levy this year.

- Failed (see separate coverage): local law amending town code chapter 2-10 to change how nontaxable Social Security is counted for the senior-citizen exemption (motion failed after public hearing).

- Approved: accepting the road name Reserve Lane for the Dutchess Reserve Subdivision (new road dedication), motion carried.

- Approved: buyback of a single cemetery plot in Pleasant Plains Cemetery for $500 to Mr. Douglas Mahan (payment equals original purchase price); motion carried.

- Approved: memorandum of agreement (MOA) extending the collective bargaining agreement between the Town of Clinton and CSEA for three years (01/01/2026–12/31/2028), unchanged except as provided in the MOA; motion carried.

- Approved: personnel actions — appointment of Serenity Schafer as clerk (up to 8 hours/week at $16.80/hr), promotion of Gavin Reichheld to HMEO (per CSEA contract, $26.57/hr), and appointment of Joshua Sahl to MEO (per contract, $23.22/hr with step-down for first 6 months); motions carried.

- Approved: October warrants — General Fund vouchers #442–502 totaling $43,518.98; Highway Fund vouchers #285–322 totaling $49,199.25; Capital Fund voucher #15 totaling $203.

- Approved: September 2025 Supervisor's report and multiple sets of meeting minutes (public hearing minutes and regular meeting minutes for prior meetings).

Where recorded votes were not provided in the transcript, the meeting minutes and roll call were recorded as “Aye/No” without named tallies in the audio; several routine motions carried by voice vote. Specific recorded roll-call tallies were not included in the public transcript for each item.