Glens Falls clerks propose overhaul of event vendor contracts, cut annual mobile‑food license to $100

City Clerk Megan Nolan and Deputy City Clerk Emily Neal told the Glens Falls Common Council on Feb. 25 that they will seek to change how the city permits mobile food vendors at public events, proposing that each vendor carry a city mobile‑food license and that the annual license fee be cut from $700 to $100.

Nolan said the change would replace existing umbrella agreements in which event organizers pay a fee and vendors operate under the organizer’s contract. "The mobile food vendors are not required to pay for a mobile food license. They're covered under the contract, and the organizer pays a fee to the city directly," Nolan said. Under the proposal, vendors would obtain their own permits and the clerk's office would administer a uniform fee schedule.

The proposal, Nolan and Emily Neal said, is meant to "level the playing field" for small businesses and to reduce confusion…