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Albany City panel approves two budget transfers and $2,400 settlement
Summary
At a Feb. 2025 meeting, city officials approved two small 2025 budget transfers — $9,000 and $3,500 — and authorized a $2,400 legal settlement in an alleged civil-rights case involving an Albany Police Department response.
Chantal Glass, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, presented three items at a Feb. 2025 meeting of the Board of Estimate: two 2025 budget transfer requests and a legal settlement.
The board approved a $9,000 transfer within the Department of Neighborhood and Community Services’ 2025 budget, moving funds from the department’s contracted services line to its miscellaneous line to cover ACDA reimbursements for emergency registries processed on an ACDA credit card. The board also approved a $3,500 transfer from the budget department’s special items contract servicing line to the administrative services office equipment line to fund purchase of a replacement industrial shredder; the existing shredder was described as about 50 years old and no longer serviceable.
The board also authorized a $2,400 settlement in a claim by Timothy Matthews alleging a civil-rights violation tied to an Albany Police Department dispatch for a resident’s mental-health incident; the transcript records that the claim includes alleged property damage. The board approved the three items together on a motion; the action was approved by voice vote, with the record not specifying individual voter names or a roll-call tally.
Why it matters: The transfers realign modest budget lines to cover operating needs for emergency registry reimbursements and to replace aging equipment; the settlement resolves a small claim tied to a police response.
Details and procedural notes: The first transfer was described as moving $9,000 within the Department of Neighborhood and Community Services budget to cover ACDA reimbursements. The $3,500 transfer was described as funding a new industrial shredder through the administrative-services office equipment line. The settlement to Timothy Matthews was listed as $2,400; meeting discussion identified the allegation as a civil-rights claim related to an APD mental-health dispatch and claimed property damage. The transcript does not record a roll-call vote or list the motion’s mover and seconder by name; the items were approved by voice vote.
The meeting record shows Chantal Glass introduced the items. Corey Ellis, identified in the record as a public council person, was present at the meeting. No further follow-up assignments or reporting deadlines were recorded in the transcript.
