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Allegany County committee approves OMH grant acceptance, authorizes Next Generation 911 application and several staffing fills
Summary
The Allegany County Public Safety Committee on May 7 voted to accept a CARES UP grant from the New York State Office of Mental Health, authorized applying for the Next Generation 911 grant (about $1,266,000), and approved requests to fill a probation officer assistant post, a deputy sheriff sergeant vacancy and corrections officer vacancies.
The Allegany County Public Safety Committee on May 7 approved several grant and staffing items, including acceptance of a CARES UP grant from the New York State Office of Mental Health and authorization to apply for the State’s Next Generation 911 grant program.
Committee Chairman Steve Havey presided over the votes, which also included permission to fill a funded probation officer assistant position in the 2025 budget, a deputy sheriff sergeant vacancy created by retirement, and multiple corrections officer vacancies caused by promotions, separations and retirements. All motions were carried by voice vote; no roll-call tallies were recorded in the meeting minutes.
Why it matters: The Next Generation 911 grant is intended for upgrades to 9‑1‑1 infrastructure; the committee’s authorization lets county staff prepare and file the application. Committee discussion did not include detailed implementation timelines or conditional commitments tied to receipt of the award.
The committee accepted the OMH CARES UP grant by motion and carried the action. The transcript reads a Next Generation 911 grant request for a total of “$1,266,000.000796000”; for clarity the committee recorded the request as $1,266,000 (the longer numeric string was read aloud in the meeting record).
On staffing, Scott Grant, the probation director, presented the request to fill the probation officer assistant role and said the position is funded in the 2025 budget and part of succession planning. The committee subsequently approved the probation request by voice vote. The sheriff’s office sought permission to fill a deputy sergeant position after a retirement and to refill corrections officer posts after recent promotions and separations; both items were approved.
No formal amendments, conditions or individual vote tallies were recorded during these motions. The committee did not set specific timelines for hiring other than standard personnel and civil-service procedures; the approvals grant the agencies permission to begin recruitment and hiring processes.
The committee’s approvals authorize staff to proceed with grant application work and to begin internal hiring steps; final grant awards and personnel hires will depend on subsequent application outcomes and civil‑service or departmental hiring processes.
