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Votes at a glance: Albany County Legislature approves multiple grants, contracts and budget amendments
Summary
At its June 9 session the Albany County Legislature approved a broad slate of resolutions — from grant submissions and contracts to budget amendments — and referred several proposed local laws to committee.
The Albany County Legislature took final votes on numerous routine and substantive items at its June 9 meeting. The body approved grant authorizations, construction and maintenance contracts, budget amendments and several program agreements; it also referred proposed local laws on sales tax and a mortgage recording tax to committee.
Votes at a glance
- Resolution 208: Authorized the submission of grant applications by various county offices and departments. Outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Resolution 209: Advanced a public hearing on proposed local law C for 2025 to amend county code to create a real-property tax exemption for accessory dwelling units on existing residential parcels. Members accepted updated language and the resolution passed.
- Resolution 210: Advanced a public hearing on proposed local law D for 2025, authorizing appropriation of funds to the Albany County Convention Center. The resolution passed with one recorded abstention.
- Resolution 211: Authorized a preventive-maintenance agreement with Industrial Furnace Company; outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Resolution 212: Authorized an agreement with Wind Construction Services for the County Route 2 over Fox Creek bridge replacement project; outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Resolution 213: Authorized an agreement with the Capital Region Transportation Council for an active-transportation technical-assistance study (complete streets support); outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Resolution 214: Authorized an agreement with the New York State Unified Court System for custodial and maintenance services at county court facilities; outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Resolution 215 and 216: Authorized general contracting (AOW Construction) and mechanical construction (Colette Mechanical) agreements for the Shaker Place Café construction project; outcomes: both approved (voice votes).
- Resolution 217: Authorized acceptance of grant funding for foster and adoptive parent recruitment and amended the 2025 Department for Children, Youth, and Families budget; outcome: approved (voice vote).
- Resolution 223–225: The legislature approved multiple homeland-security and hazard-mitigation grant applications and related budget amendments, including participation in the 2024–25 Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness Grant Program; outcomes: approved (voice votes).
- Collective bargaining: The legislature approved a memorandum of agreement with 1199 SEIU for staff at Shaker Place Rehabilitation and Nursing Center; outcome: approved.
- Appointments: The legislature confirmed appointments to the Albany County Airport Authority by long roll call (recorded as 33 yes votes) and confirmed a separate appointment to the Albany Convention Center Authority by voice vote.
- Resolution 245: A request to the New York State Legislature to continue a mortgage recording tax (Assembly Bill A8114a; Senate Bill S7525a as cited on the floor) was approved by long roll call (recorded as 31 yes, 6 no).
- Local laws referred: Proposed local law E (an additional 1% sales-and-use tax rate under Article 29 of the New York State Tax Law) and proposed local law F (enacting a mortgage recording tax under section 253-p of the New York State Tax Law) were read on the floor and referred to the law and audit & finance committees for further review.
How the votes were taken: Most measures were approved by voice vote with the clerk announcing “Resolution passes.” Several more consequential items (appointments and the mortgage-recording-tax request) were decided by long roll call and recorded counts.
Why it matters: The passed resolutions authorize projects, grant pursuits and budget adjustments that enable county services and capital work (bridge replacement, courthouse maintenance, Shaker Place construction, foster-family recruitment, public-safety grants and more). The two proposed local laws will receive committee scrutiny before any final legislative vote.
What was not decided: The public hearings for the proposed local laws were scheduled and the local-law texts were referred to committees; the legislature did not adopt the local laws on the floor during this meeting.
