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Ways and Means Committee approves hiring requests, lease, grants and E‑911 equipment appropriation
Summary
The committee approved several routine requests: a 63-month lease with Quadient, multiple public-works and corrections hiring requests, a First Assistant Public Defender hire, a $30,000 CARES UP grant application, a $43,400 appropriation from the E‑911 reserve for recording equipment, and authorization to apply for a domestic-violence pilot project grant.
The Allegany County Ways and Means Committee on Dec. 10 approved a package of routine administrative requests brought by county departments.
Clerk of the board requested a 63-month lease with Quadient for a postage meter ‘‘at $348.56 per month,’’ which the committee approved by voice vote.
County superintendent of public works Thomas Windes requested authority to fill three positions: one full-time heavy-duty equipment mechanic (bargain unit grade 14 step base to 7), one full-time county engineer (PEF bargain unit grade 14 step base to 11), and one full-time motor equipment operator (MEO 1, bargain unit grade 11 step 7). Each request was moved, seconded, and carried.
Public defender J.R. Santana Carter requested permission to fill a First Assistant Public Defender position; the transcript reports an estimated salary range of ‘‘between 71,000 and 100 and 2,000’’ with benefits ‘‘between 30,000 and 42,000’’ and states the position is 100% county-funded and included in the 2025 budget. The committee approved the request.
Sheriff requested permission to fill four corrections officer positions. A committee member asked whether the request responds to New York State Department of Corrections minimum staffing requirements; the sheriff confirmed that it does. The transcript lists the annual salary range for each corrections position as ‘‘between $52,000 and $6,064,000,’’ which appears to be a transcription or formatting error and was not clarified during the meeting; the committee approved the hirings.
Director of Emergency Management Scott Golden requested permission to apply for the CARES UP 2025 grant through the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services to fund mental-health resiliency and peer-support initiatives for volunteer fire and EMS responders; he described the total grant as ‘‘approximately $30,000’’ and the committee approved the application authorization.
The sheriff also requested a resolution appropriating $43,400 from the E‑911 reserve account to refresh E‑911 phone recording equipment; the committee approved that appropriation.
County administrator Carissa Knapp requested authorization to apply for the New York State Office of Prevention of Domestic Violence Coordinated Community Response pilot project; the committee approved the request.
All motions described above were approved by voice vote during the meeting.
Notes on transcript accuracy: the transcript contains inconsistent spellings of the sheriff’s name (recorded as both "Ciccarello" and "Scott Cicero") and at least one numeric formatting anomaly for a salary figure; the committee did not resolve those inconsistencies during the meeting.
