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Committee votes: finance and operations resolutions carried in single session
Summary
Finance and related committees approved a large slate of routine contracts, purchases, grant agreements and budget amendments by voice vote; this article lists each approved item recorded in committee minutes.
The Finance committee and related bodies on March 17 approved a slate of routine resolutions, motions and contract actions by voice vote. Many of the items were carried with no recorded opposition; the items below are described as they were announced in committee and were recorded as carried.
Votes at a glance (items and outcomes recorded in committee minutes):
- Resolution 459-24: Authorize Greene County Culture Fund contracts — approved by voice vote. - Accept formal proposal for removal of trees necessary for County Route 61 bridge replacement (Town of the Baltimore) — approved. - Authorize purchase of two 2025 Ford F-600 XL trucks with dump bodies and plows through NYS OGS — approved. - Authorize extension of contracts for household hazardous waste collection events — approved. - Authorize supplemental GRAMA #1 for completion of Casco Transfer Station residential drop-off infrastructure project — approved. - Authorize supplemental electrical agreement #1 for Casco Transfer Station residential drop-off project — approved. - Authorize supplemental agreement #1 for removal and reconstruction of tipping floor at Casco Transfer Station — approved. - Authorize purchase of one new 23-wheel loader — approved. - Authorize agreement: Greene County Department of Human Services (Aging) and Columbia County Community Healthcare (text in minutes garbled) — approved. - Authorize GRAMA: Greene County Community Service Board and Cambridge Brain Science Inc.; budget amendment — approved. - Authorize agreement: Greene County Mental Health and Coordinated Care Services Inc. — approved. - Approve related service provider contract for preschool special education program — approved. - Authorize GRAMA: Greene County Public Health and Grand Canyon University — approved. - Authorize out-of-state travel: Greene County Economic Development, Tourism and Planning, Amanda Karch — approved (also discussed in economic development committee). - Authorize out-of-state travel: Churchill and Wendy Johnson, Greene County Family Planning — approved. - Appoint member to the community service board — approved. - Authorize chargeback of assessment roll-related services and materials, 2025 senior exemption (mailing) — approved. - Authorize chargeback of assessment roll-related services and materials, 2025 tax bills — approved. - Budget amendment: insurance recovery (Greene County Sheriff billing) — approved. - Budget amendment/amend resolution 375-24 authorizing purchase of tire shredder — approved. - Budget amendment: insurance recovery (solid waste) — approved. - Authorize paid claims (highway) — approved. - Authorize paid claims (additional) — approved.
Most of these items were moved and seconded on the floor of the committee; the record shows routine voice votes and that the resolutions were carried. Where the minutes noted an individual mover or seconder (for example, multiple items list "Davis" as mover or seconder in the minutes), the committee carried the items by voice vote with no roll-call totals recorded in the transcript excerpt.
Why it matters: these routine approvals fund equipment purchases, infrastructure work and interagency agreements that keep county services running and advance capital projects. The approvals also include travel authorizations for county staff participating in out-of-state events tied to program work.
If members want further detail on any single item (contract language, vendor names, procurement awards or exact dollar amounts), the committee record and the county resolution files should be consulted; committee minutes and the clerk’s office hold the formal resolutions and contracts.
