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Council and staff review three years of goals: ERP, housing and mental‑health wins and stormwater setbacks
Summary
At a retreat meeting the council and senior staff reviewed three years of priorities — highlighting successes such as ERP implementation, housing coalition work and expanded crisis response — and examined setbacks, most notably public backlash during the stormwater fee effort and the limits of staff capacity.
Councilors and department directors spent a long session cataloging what worked over the past three years and why, and where the city stumbled.
Successes they credited to specific leadership, funding and partnerships included the citywide ERP (enterprise resource planning) rollout, improved water‑system projects (including the North tank), a coordinated housing coalition that led to the Albany County Housing and Land Trust, and significant expansion of crisis intervention training and a case manager position to support mental‑health responses with law enforcement.…
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