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Albany County amends sheriff’s 2025 budget, accepts $115,836 Homeland Security grant
Summary
Officials authorized administrative adjustments to the 2025 sheriff’s office budget, approved reopening encumbrances for earlier grants, and authorized a 2024 Emergency Management Performance Grant agreement with New York State Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services for $115,836 with a 50% match.
Albany County officials authorized administrative amendments to the sheriff’s 2025 budget, approved reopening closed encumbrances for older grants, and authorized an agreement with the New York State Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services for the 2024 Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG).
The sheriff described the EMPG as “for a hundred and $15,836” and said, “We put it all towards, salaries. It's for a 50% match.” He said the grant period runs from Oct. 1, 2023, to Sept. 30, 2026.
Separately, the sheriff asked the body to reopen encumbrances the county comptroller had closed, saying that state grants sometimes arrive late and cannot reasonably be spent within the original fiscal window. He summarized the practical problem: grants awarded in 2023 can still be active into 2025, so the county must re-authorize those encumbrances to spend the funds.
Officials moved and approved the budget amendments and the grant agreement during the meeting. The transcript records motions and seconds and moves on to subsequent items; specific roll-call tallies were not provided in the excerpt.
The transcript does not include department-level line-item changes or a full accounting of which grants are affected beyond the EMPG. No speaker identified implementation deadlines or reporting schedules for EMPG spending in the excerpt.
