Warren County’s Board of Supervisors approved a broad slate of year-end actions, including supplemental appropriations, capital-project closings, contract authorizations and occupancy-tax grant awards.
The finance chair summarized roughly 40 resolutions (resolutions in the 520–558 range) covering supplemental appropriations for multiple departments, closing capital project H426 and transferring returned funds to the general fund for boiler replacement at the Health and Human Services building. Notable line items read into the record included a request for New York State approval of $276,758.05 in clerk expenses and the county’s 2026 property and casualty insurance premium noted at $998,039.
The board considered and passed a series of contract and grant authorizations: agreements with Cornell Cooperative Extension and Adirondack Community College for workforce and extension services; payments to Lake Champlain/Lake George regional planning and library systems; and multiple small-to-medium occupancy-tax awards. The clerk reported the totals and award counts as read from the resolution packet; for example, the occupancy tax packet contained 26 awards totaling $417,000 (as read during discussion).
On social-service contracting, Resolution 4 92 authorized an agreement with Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany to provide residential and nonresidential domestic violence services for Department of Social Services clients in the county; the transcript records one supervisor’s recusal during that vote and the clerk’s announcement that it passed (read as 'Resolution passes with 924 votes in favor' in the transcript). Several other appropriation and transfer resolutions — H426 closing and funds reallocation, write-offs of uncollected debt, and various transfers into the sheriff’s budget to cover overtime and shortfalls — were approved by roll call as the meeting progressed.
Board members debated whether to delay the occupancy-tax awards for further review; proponents said most awards are modest and that the committee used scoring metrics to recommend awards, while opponents asked for more town-driven decisions on small awards. Where recusals were recorded in the transcript, the clerk noted those members left the room before the vote.
The meeting closed with holiday remarks and administrative announcements; the clerk also noted the organizational meeting date read into the record (the transcript reads the date as '01/06/1926' as presented during the meeting).
The transcript contains numerous roll-call tallies and readouts; several tallies and some numeric lines in the clerk’s announcements are garbled in the recording (for example, tallies read as '969' or '7 90'). Those figures are presented here only as recorded in the meeting transcript and should be verified against the official minutes and clerk’s roll-call record for precise counts.