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Madison County Board adopts 2025 budget, approves package of resolutions and MOU
Summary
The Madison County Board of Supervisors approved the fiscal 2025 county budget and a series of resolutions including appropriations, tax apportionment, contract authorizations and an MOU with the Madison County Council on alcoholism and substance abuse. Several grant and contract authorizations were also approved.
Madison County Board of Supervisors members voted to adopt the county’s fiscal 2025 budget and approved a package of resolutions covering appropriations, tax apportionment, contract authorizations and an MOU with a county substance‑abuse council.
Matt Roberts, chairman of the Finance, Ways and Means Committee, presented Resolution 19 to adopt the county budget for fiscal year 2025 and Resolution 20 to set appropriations for county government. Both were moved, seconded and adopted following roll call votes. A staff member announced “1500 votes in favor” after the roll call.
Roberts also presented Resolution 21 to apportion county taxes and a set of committee preferred agenda items that included grant‑related budget modifications (resolutions 7–11) and the introduction of proposed local law No. 7 (2024) for a public hearing. The board approved the package after roll call votes.
On the procurement and operations side, the Highway, Buildings & Grounds Committee package (resolutions 13–18) authorized the chairman to enter agreements with King and King Architects, Excell Management Corporation (d/b/a Law and Medic), Schindler Elevator Corporation, Upstate Temperature Control (award for bid 24‑48) and to renew an agreement with the New York State Unified Court System. Resolution 15 raised the potential impacts of efforts to electrify highway department vehicles under the advanced clean truck rule; that item was included in committee action.
The board also approved Resolution 24 to modify the 2025 adopted county budget to account for 2024 host community benefit funds and carried administrative tax‑collection measures (resolutions 22–23) to levy unpaid school and village taxes.
Resolution 25 authorized the chairman to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Madison County Council on alcoholism and substance abuse; the motion was moved and seconded and the board approved the measure.
Most items on the agenda were adopted after motion, second and roll call. Several roll calls were followed by the clerk or staff announcement that the votes were in favor. The meeting recessed with no recorded public comment and with a recognition of retiring colleague Bill Wilcox scheduled for the next evening.
Details on the approved items, as stated during the meeting, include the following: adoption of the fiscal 2025 county budget (Resolution 19); appropriation for county government (Resolution 20); apportionment of county taxes (Resolution 21); authorizations to enter into or renew agreements with named vendors and the New York State Unified Court System (Resolutions 13–18); and an MOU with the county alcohol and substance‑abuse council (Resolution 25). Where roll call tallies were read aloud during the meeting, the clerk announced adoption or unanimous support as recorded during the meeting.
The board recessed until the next scheduled session on December 12.
