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Legislature Extends County’s Counsel-at-First-Appearance Grant Through 2025
Summary
The committee approved an extension of a three-year $750,000 grant for counsel-at-first-appearance services, allowing the county to use roughly $250,000 remaining through Dec. 31, 2025; specific uses will return to the legislature for approval.
Albany County legislators voted unanimously to extend a state-funded counsel-at-first-appearance grant through Dec. 31, 2025, allowing the county to access remaining funds from the multi-year award.
Judge Harrick told the committee the grant originally would have expired Dec. 31, 2024, and that the legislature already has ILS approval to extend it through the current year. He said: “That will allow us to, utilize the balance of that, it's a $750,000 grant over 3 years, and we have 200 about 250,000 remaining.” The extension was presented without a specific expenditure plan; Judge Harrick said the committee would be asked to approve specific uses at a later date.
Committee members noted the item had been pulled from the prior month because an earlier, specific proposal for spending the remaining funds had not been agreed to by the presenter’s office and the county executive. The motion before the committee was solely to extend the grant term and not to authorize new uses now. A motion to approve was made and seconded; the committee recorded the vote as unanimous.
By approving the extension, legislators preserved the remaining grant funding for future legislative consideration. No new spending was authorized at the meeting; Judge Harrick said that when his office has a spending proposal, “We'll come back to the legislature for that at a later date.”
