Supervisors approve emergency purchases for road/paint work; staff to finalize escrow reimbursements for developer projects

The Board of Supervisors approved emergency funding to address immediate road-line painting and an epoxy paint need in a county facility and discussed recognizing reimbursements from developer escrow accounts for engineering and legal fees on several projects.

A county department head said a paint machine purchased last year was insufficient to complete needed epoxy painting, and that staff must contract with an outside vendor to apply epoxy paint for public-safety reasons. The presenter said $26,000 remained from last year’s paving/painting projects and that an additional $46,000 from fund balance would be required to pay for emergency road-lining work that had begun because of public-safety concerns.

A motion to authorize the emergency purchase and to use fund balance as described was moved, seconded and approved by voice vote; the transcript records the outcome as 'Aye' and indicates the motion passed. The meeting record did not include a roll-call tally in the provided excerpt.

Separately, staff reported three developer-funded escrow situations where the county paid engineering and legal fees in 2024 and will need to recognize reimbursement revenue once the exact amounts are confirmed. Two of the projects were identified as the CHPE (Champlain Hudson Power Express) project and another canal-side energy project; a third was a building expansion. Staff said CHPE-related fees are roughly in the low thousands, another project around $6,000 and the largest reimbursement near $86,000, and said they would provide exact numbers to supervisors before finalizing a resolution.

Ending — Supervisors approved the emergency expenditure by voice vote and asked staff to return with the exact escrow reimbursement numbers and a clear resolution for recognizing the revenue.