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Committee approves minutes, two reappointments and a budget amendment for Visitors Bureau
Summary
The Planning and Economic Development Committee approved meeting minutes, confirmed reappointments to the Off-Track Betting board and the Chautauqua County Soil and Water Conservation District board, and adopted a 2025 budget amendment to cover a 2024 Visitors Bureau payment that cleared accruals. Votes were by voice; specific roll-call tallies
The Planning and Economic Development Committee approved several routine items on its May 21 agenda.
Minutes: The committee approved the minutes from the prior meeting by voice vote. No roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript.
Off-Track Betting reappointment: The committee confirmed a reappointment to the Off-Track Betting (OTB) board. A committee member characterized the resolution as "trivial" relative to strategic economic-development work, but the reappointment carried on a voice vote; no roll-call tally or appointee name was recorded in the transcript.
Soil and Water Conservation District reappointments: James Sullivan, from the County Executive's Office, introduced annual reappointments to the Chautauqua County Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Directors. The committee reappointed Legislator Lisa Vanstrom and Pierre Shagnon to one-year terms (legislative appointments). The committee approved the appointments by voice vote.
Budget amendment for Visitors Bureau: Sam Zafuto, deputy director of finance, presented a resolution to amend the 2025 budget to cover a project completed in 2024 whose payment fell outside the prior year's accrual. The amendment moves the necessary funds into 2025 to cover the expense. Committee members discussed occupancy-tax distributions and the timing of state-level review of occupancy tax law; members approved the amendment by voice vote.
All approvals in the transcript were carried by voice; no recorded roll-call tallies were provided in the meeting transcript.
