Livingston County board approves multiple resolutions, authorizes FEMA grant application and hears budget and reimbursement updates

The Livingston County Board of Supervisors adopted a series of resolutions by unanimous consent, authorized the county to apply for federal hazard-mitigation funding and received staff updates on capital planning and state reimbursements during its meeting.

The board voted to adopt routine proclamations and administrative resolutions, approved multiple budget and account changes for the Board of Elections, authorized contracts for county services, and authorized submission of a grant application to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program to fund an update of Livingston County's all-hazards mitigation plan.

Why it matters: the FEMA BRIC application would fund the county's update to its all-hazards mitigation plan, which guides local preparedness and eligibility for some federal mitigation funds. The board's budget and account actions affect how local elections and records-management work will be financed and carried out.

The board handled minutes and routine business at the start of the meeting and then moved through a set of resolutions and administrative items by unanimous consent. The board adopted proclamations designating March as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month and March as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and declared certain property surplus (transcript: "Declaring March 2025 as developmental disabilities awareness month in Livingston County. Proclaiming the month of March 2025 as colorectal cancer awareness month, and declaring Surplus Property Highway"). Those resolutions were adopted with a recorded tally noted repeatedly in the minutes as "Ayes, 2998. Absent, 2056. Adopted." The board took separate unanimous-consent votes to:

- Authorize the chairman to sign a contract for county services with Forest Hill Catering (motion language in the transcript: "authorizing the chairman of the Livingston County Board of Supervisors to sign the following contract for Livingston County, Forest Hill Catering"). - Amend the February 2025 Livingston County budget for central services, contingency, county administrator, board of elections and records management (transcript: "Amending the 02/2025 Livingston County budget, central services, contingency, county administrator, board of elections, and records management"). - Establish a Board of Elections account and close an equipment reserve account for the Board of Elections (transcript references "Establishing an account, Board of Elections" and "Closed reserve account, BOE equipment reserve"). - Authorize a contingency transfer to a capital account for the Board of Elections to clear ballot-related items (transcript: "Authorizing contingency transfer to capital account. Board of elections clear ballot"). - Authorize the chairman to sign contracts for the Records Management Department with ICC Community Development Solutions LLC and an entity listed in the transcript as "Preserve a Cutting" (transcript: "authorizing the chairman of the Livingston County Board of Supervisors to sign the following contracts for the Livingston County Records Management Department, ICC Community Development Solutions LLC and Preserve a Cutting"). - Correct the Town of Mount Morris tax roll (transcript: "Correcting tax roll, Town Of Mount Morris").

Votes at a glance

- Proclamations (Declaring March 2025 developmental disabilities awareness month; March 2025 colorectal cancer awareness month; surplus property declaration): Ayes 2,998; Absent 2,056. Adopted. - Contract authorization — Forest Hill Catering: Ayes 2,998; Absent 2,056. Adopted. - Budget amendment (02/2025 central services/contingency/county administrator/BOE/records): Ayes 2,998; Absent 2,056. Adopted. - Establish BOE account: Ayes 2,998; Absent 2,056. Adopted. - Close BOE equipment reserve account: Ayes 2,998; Absent 2,056. Adopted. - Contingency transfer to BOE capital account: Ayes 2,998; Absent 2,056. Adopted. - Authorize Records Management contracts (ICC Community Development Solutions LLC; "Preserve a Cutting"): Ayes 2,998; Absent 2,056. Adopted. - Correct tax roll, Town of Mount Morris: Ayes 2,998; Absent 2,056. Adopted.

The board authorized submission of a FEMA BRIC grant application to update the county's all-hazards mitigation plan. The authorization was adopted by unanimous consent (transcript: "Authorization to submit a grant application to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Building Resilience Infrastructure and Communities Grama Program to fund an update to Livingston County's all hazard mitigation plan"). No vote tally beyond the standard recorded "Aye/Absent" counts was provided in the transcript.

In other business, the board acknowledged receipt of a third-party summons and complaint filed by Robert Ward against Kendall Central School District, and a cross-claim or related filing listing Kendall Central School District against Livingston County, et al. (transcript: "Receipt of third party summons and complaint in the matter of Robert Ward against Kendall Central School District and Kendall Kendall Central School District against Livingston County, et al."). The transcript records the receipt as part of communications to the board; no board action on the suits was recorded.

Staff reports and reimbursements

A county staff member identified in the transcript as David reported on several administrative matters. He told the board that Ways and Means is preparing a draft 2025–2029 capital improvement plan and that department requests were due to his office on Friday, Feb. 21 (transcript: "preparations for the draft 20 25 to 20 29 capital improvement plan are well underway. Requests are due to my office last Friday, February 21").

David also reported that the highway department and treasurer confirmed receipt of approximately $445,000 in reimbursement from the New York State Department of Transportation for winter maintenance on state roadways. Of that amount, about $366,800 was identified in the report as reimbursement for 2024 costs incurred in November and December; the remainder will be applied to 2025 costs (transcript: "the highway department and treasurer confirmed receipt of approximately $445,000 in reimbursement from the New York State Department of Transportation, for winter maintenance on state roadways. Of that tranche of funds, just, approximately $366,800 was for 2024 cap or costs incurred in the months of November and December, and the remainder will be applied to the 2025 costs incurred date").

David and the minutes also noted county participation at the New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC) legislative conference in Albany; county directors David Terry and Jen Rodriguez participated in sessions (transcript: "County directors, David Terry and Jen Rodriguez, each participated in sessions"). The staff update summarized themes from the conference and the governor's proposed executive budget figures as reported at the conference; those figures were reported by the staff speaker as background from NYSAC sessions (transcript lists statewide budget totals and changes discussed at the conference). The board did not take action on the state budget items during the meeting.

Training

The board recorded a communication that Kelly Greenway will provide corporate compliance and workplace violence prevention training for the supervisor following adjournment (transcript: "Kelly Greenway will be holding corporate compliance and workplace violence prevention training for the supervisor following adjournment today"). No action or vote was attached to that announcement.

What the minutes do not show

The transcript records routine voting tallies and unanimous-consent motions for the items listed above but does not include detailed motion text, sponsor or seconder names for every item beyond the generic meeting phrases used in the record (several motions are recorded as "I move this resolution and ask for unanimous consent"). When sponsor names were not clearly identified in the transcript, this article lists the motion language as it appears in the record and marks sponsor fields in the actions inventory as not specified.

Next steps

Several items referred to follow-up: the Ways and Means draft capital improvement plan will be presented in March for board consideration; staff will continue to monitor state reimbursements; and the county will proceed with authorizing the FEMA BRIC application. The transcript does not record final grant award decisions or additional conditions on the BRIC application.

Ending note: The meeting closed after routine procedural business and a final staff report; there was no further public hearing or contested vote recorded in the provided transcript.