Putnam County approves year-end transfers, $255,000 911 grant and $650,000 dam repairs

Putnam County’s Audit & Administration Committee and the full Legislature finished 2024 on Dec. 19 by approving a slate of routine year-end transfers, grant awards and personnel-related budget moves.

Committee remarks said county revenues finished the year roughly on target. “We’re in great shape for 2024,” said an audit committee speaker, noting the county had met its sales-tax target for the year (the transcript’s stated total appears garbled; the committee characterized receipts as about $78 million). The committee reviewed monthly sales-tax and revenue reports, contingency balances and department overtime before forwarding items to the full Legislature.

Key approvals included several law-enforcement and emergency-services items. The committee moved a $62,769.89 incoming reimbursement to cover sheriff overtime and recommended a $150,000 use of federally seized assets to purchase firearm-related equipment. It also approved a $12,735.19 insurance recovery for sheriff vehicle repairs. The county accepted a New York State law-enforcement technology grant of $255,000 directed to the county’s 911 dispatch center for software and related purchases.

Emergency-services funding also included a State Homeland Security Program award described as roughly $152,575 (packet backup shows two revenue lines and an internal split); a county official noted that federal guidance requires at least 35% of those funds to be directed to terrorism-prevention activities.

The Department of Public Works presented an insurance recovery covering guardrail repairs…