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Allegany County board approves audit and package of resolutions; some votes split on airport funding
Summary
At its Dec. 10 meeting the Allegany County Board of Legislators approved the annual audit, appointed a veteran services director nominee (subject to approval), and carried a package of routine resolutions; funding for the Wellsville Municipal Airport passed with a 9–4–1 roll-call split.
The Allegany County Board of Legislators on Dec. 10 approved a broad package of routine resolutions, accepted the county audit and took several administrative actions that included the nomination of a director of veteran services and funding for the Wellsville Municipal Airport.
Chair W. Brooke Harris announced a slate of correspondence and consent items. Among those were interfund transfers and a certificate of reinstatement under Article 11 of the New York State Real Property Tax Law. Harris also announced his appointment of Michael Middaugh of Angelica as director of veteran services effective Jan. 1, 2026, subject to board approval.
The board approved numerous resolutions across committees by motion and roll call. Notable approvals included appropriations and acceptance of grant funds for the Office for the Aging, acceptance of insurance proceeds for a lightning strike claim at the Rushford Tower, snowmobile trail development grant funding, and agreements to support county nutrition and housing assistance programs. Many items were handled as block votes with committee approval and recorded roll-call tallies commonly reported as 14 ayes and 1 absent.
A contested vote occurred on a resolution to appropriate funds for the Wellsville Municipal Airport. During the roll call several legislators registered dissent and one legislator abstained; the transcript records the result as 9 yes, 4 no, 1 abstaining and 1 absent, and the resolution carried.
The board also considered a non-prefiled application by the Sheriff’s Office and Probation Department for a Coordinated Community Response Pilot Project (Resolution 47825) that required a two‑thirds motion to consider; the board approved consideration and then approved the application by roll call (14 ayes, 1 absent). The county audit — including fund totals and departmental totals for general government, education, public safety, health, economic assistance and other categories — was then read and approved by roll call.
Actions that passed will move to department-level implementation; the chair indicated some grant acceptances and appropriations will require later appropriation steps and administrative enactment.
