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Board approves routine budget amendments, contracts and appointments; Section 32 settlement carries with one abstention
Summary
At its June 10 meeting the Seneca County Board of Supervisors approved a broad set of motions including budget amendments, contract awards, appointments and grant acceptances. A full list of agenda motions and outcomes is provided below; one abstention was recorded on a Section 32 settlement.
The Seneca County Board of Supervisors completed a series of routine and project actions during its June 10 meeting, approving budget amendments, contracts, grant acceptances and appointments across county departments. Below is a summary of each action taken as recorded in the meeting transcript; motions were moved, seconded and recorded as carried unless otherwise noted.
Votes at a glance (agenda item — brief description — outcome):
- Item 12 — Authorize the finance department to pay the mortgage tax. — Carried. - Item 13 — Amendments to the 2025 county budget for mandated mental health stay. — Carried. - Item 14 — Authorize agreement with 3 plus 1 and budget amendment. — Carried. - Item 15 — Amend 2025 budget for OFA renovation and 3 Bears Cupola (amendment added for gifts/donations of $27,540.50). — Carried as amended. - Item 16 — Amend 2025 budget for water and sewer repairs and maintenance. — Carried. - Item 17 — Authorize two‑year contract extension with NYS Department of Health for rabies control program grant. — Carried. - Item 18 — Award bid for county highway striping. — Carried. - Item 19 — Authorize implementation and funding for Bridge New York project (County Road 136A/Mill Street). — Carried. - Item 20 — Authorize implementation and funding for another Bridge New York project (CR 119 over 10%). — Carried. - Item 21 — Authorize agreement for makeup air unit replacement at the law enforcement center. — Carried. - Item 22 — Contract amendment with Streeter Associates for additional work on 3 Bears Cupola rehab and related budget amendment. — Carried. - Item 23 — Award RFP for on‑demand architectural services to John Snyder Architects and Barton & Majidis. — Carried. - Item 24 — Authorize operation and maintenance agreement for Veterans Memorial Cemetery (Christopher Roberts). — Carried. - Item 25 — Revise travel policy (policy 1.409). — Carried. - Item 26 — Abolish psychiatric social worker and create/fill mental health clinical therapist position. — Carried. - Item 27 — Authorize agreement with NCA Comp Inc. for administration of self‑insured workers’ comp. — Carried. - Item 28 — Adopt policy 101.514 active shooter preparedness and response training. — Carried. - Item 29 — Create and fill full‑time speech language pathologist position and approve hiring above start rate. — Carried. - Item 30 — Create and fill full‑time physical therapist position and approve hiring above start rate. — Carried. - Item 31 — Authorize agreement with Millennium Strategies LLC for consulting and grant writing and related 2025 budget amendment. — Carried. - Item 32 — Permit use of county roads for Muscleman Triathlon. — Carried. - Item 33 — Adopt Local Law No. 2 of 2025, Seneca County Hotel‑Motel Occupancy Tax. — Carried (see separate article). - Item 34 — Motion to send water & sewer resolution back to committee for June 24 meeting. — Carried (returned to committee). - Item 35 — Authorize intermunicipal agreement with Monroe County for medical examiner services (autopsies). — Carried. - Item 36 — Accept 2025 New York State Canal Corporation grant for marine patrol service ($440,000). — Carried. - Item 37 — Approve purchase of six portable radios and related equipment for sheriff’s department. — Carried. - Item 38 — Appoint Kevin Colton and Harriet Haines to County Planning Board. — Carried. - Item 39 — Amend the Grow Seneca grant program guidelines. — Carried. - Item 40 — Approve Tourism Promotion Development grant funds for Interlaken Fire Department. — Carried. - Additional motions — Procedural motions including a Rule 29 motion for pending business and moving into a meeting with invited members and expected action were recorded and carried.
Separate recorded settlement vote: The board "authorizes a full and final Section 32 settlement." The motion carried with one recorded abstention: Supervisor Jeffrey Trout abstained; no other named no votes were recorded in the transcript.
Most items were routine approvals with no extended debate recorded in the transcript. Where the transcript includes brief follow‑up questions (for example, on contract scopes, project start windows for Bridge NY awards, or whether campground stays are captured in visitation statistics), board members asked for follow‑up outside the motions or asked department staff to provide additional detail.
Where the transcript lists no mover/second names or no roll‑call tallies, the meeting minutes recorded only the procedural confirmation "All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Carried."
