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Greene County committees approve a slate of grants, contracts and appointments
Summary
At the Dec. 3 meetings the legislature carried multiple routine resolutions: psychiatry/medical director contracting to meet OMH licensing, a NYSDOH AIDS Institute grant application, an EMS contract amendment for Halcott, Cultural Fund contracts, and approval to buy an emergency variable message board with grant funds, among other appointments and budget amendments.
The Greene County Legislature’s Health Services, County Resources and Public Safety committees approved a series of resolutions and motions on Dec. 3 covering contracts, grant applications, appointments and budget amendments.
Key actions carried by voice vote or recorded motion included:
- Authorization for Greene County Mental Health Department to update psychiatry coverage and meet Office of Mental Health licensing requirements as Dr. McGinn retires and Dr. Corbin increases hours (resolution introduced and carried by the Health Services committee).
- Attestation to the use of Targeted Inflationary Increase (TII) funding by the Greene County Community Services Board and authorization of a grant application to the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute (division of HIV and hepatitis health care and epidemiology).
- Amendment of resolution 306‑25 to authorize a county contract with Greene County Emergency Medical Systems Inc. for the town of Halcott; the committee carried the amendment by voice vote.
- Authorization of an agreement and payment with the Columbia‑Greene Community College Foundation (motion recorded by Rivera, seconded by Lucas) and approval of multiple small organizational agreements, including the Greene County Agricultural Society and Cornell Cooperative Extension arrangements. Several motions passed with brief discussion; Community Action of Greene County received a noted $50,000 increase that prompted requests for the agency to present its budget and explain use of the additional funds in the January meeting.
- Approval of Greene County Cultural Fund contracts; committee members requested a report listing awardees and project descriptions to ensure transparency.
- A public‑safety grant of roughly $24,000 was presented to purchase an emergency variable message board; the committee approved purchase of the board (estimated vendor cost ~ $19,000) and discussed constraints on spending the remaining grant balance under homeland‑security grant rules.
- Appointments to the Greene County Fire Advisory Board, reappointments to Soil and Water Conservation District seats, and budget amendments related to insurance recoveries for the sheriff’s office all moved forward by committee votes.
Most motions passed by voice vote; the transcript records some abstentions (for example, a set of abstentions on a reappointment vote) and occasional voiced opposition on a small number of items but no major defeats on the agenda.
Committee chairs asked staff to supply more detail for a handful of items (notably Community Action’s budget increase and Cultural Fund awardee lists) and scheduled follow up reporting in January.
Below is a summary of the principal adopted items and where they appear in the transcript (for verification and follow‑up): the psychiatry/medical director contract (SEG 605–661), NYSDOH grant application (SEG 673–676), EMS contract amendment for Halcott (SEG 685–695), Columbia‑Greene Community College Foundation agreement (SEG 997–1006), Community Action funding increase discussion (SEG 1024–1079), Cultural Fund contracts (SEG 1109–1128) and the variable message board grant/purchase (SEG 1480–1488 and SEG 2026–2036).
The committees adjourned after completing the listed votes and scheduling follow‑ups; the Public Safety committee closed after approving appointments and budget amendments related to sheriff’s office insurance recovery.
