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Allegany County panel approves CHIPS budget modification and several Public Works hires
Summary
The Ways and Means Committee approved a budget modification for CHIPS-related highway work and authorized three hires in the Department of Public Works, the committee record shows.
Allegany County’s Ways and Means Committee on June 11 approved a resolution to modify the 2025–26 budget to accept additional Consolidated Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS) funds and authorized multiple hires in the Department of Public Works.
County superintendent of public works Thomas Windus asked the committee to approve the budget change “for state fiscal year 25 to 26 consolidated highway improvement program CHIPS funds” to reflect additional appropriations for PAVE New York, extreme weather winter recovery and pothole work, in the amount listed in the meeting record as $245,000.998. Committee members voted to approve the resolution.
The request also included authorization to fill three positions in Public Works: one full-time motor equipment operator (Bargaining Unit, Grade 11, Step 7), one full-time labor position (Bargaining Unit, Grade 9, Step base to 7) and one full-time senior account clerk typist (Bargaining Unit, Grade 10, Step base to 7). The committee approved each personnel request; the meeting record indicates the positions are within the department’s budgeted headcount.
A committee member noted the CHIPS allocations had been “watched carefully” and that funding levels were held the same or increased, which the meeting record characterizes as positive news. No roll-call vote totals were recorded in the meeting excerpt; individual motions were moved and carried by voice vote.
The committee also scheduled a legislators-only caucus to follow, listed in the record as 1:20 p.m. in the Department of Public Works conference room.
