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Franklin County posts Jan–Apr 2026 resolution index with proposed tax-law change, broadband contracts and multiple budget items
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Summary
The Franklin County Legislature’s Jan–April 2026 resolution index lists a proposed local law to rescind a 2025 tax-levy override, multiple broadband MIP Phase I contract actions, personnel appointments and budget amendments, and records one defeated inter-municipal-agreement amendment with the Village of Malone.
The Franklin County Legislature circulated a consolidated resolution index for meetings held between Jan. 5 and April 16, 2026, outlining dozens of agenda items including a proposal to rescind a prior tax-levy override, several broadband contract actions tied to the county’s MIP Phase I project, multiple budget amendments and position authorizations, and one defeated amendment to an inter-municipal agreement with the Village of Malone.
The index shows the Legislature planned an action to adopt Local Law 1 of 2026 to rescind Local Law 3 of 2025, which had previously authorized overriding the county’s tax-levy limit for 2026. That item appears on the Jan. 15 and Feb. 5 agendas as a matter to set a public hearing and as a proposed adoption; the index itself lists the proposed adoption but does not record a final vote outcome.
Broadband-related items recur across the index. The document lists authorization to amend earlier resolutions to enter a contract with The Research Companies (TRC) for make-ready work associated with the MIP Phase I broadband project and later entries authorizing contracts with Airosmith and acceptance of change orders for MIP I and MIP III. The March 19 agenda also records county support for a Municipal Broadband Deployment Capital project (noted in the index as “(138,086)”), and April listings include additional contract amendments and change orders; the index does not include contract text or procurement outcomes.
The index lists many routine and substantive authorizations: appointments (county attorney, county auditor, board and advisory appointments), creation and filling of county positions across departments (buildings & grounds, district attorney, social services, broadband, and others), multiple budget amendments and appropriations tied to grants and prior-year invoice payments, equipment purchases (dump truck piggyback, Caterpillar 938 loader), and planned auctions and transfers of county property for economic development.
A special meeting entry for April 2 records that an authorization to amend an inter-municipal agreement with the Village of Malone was defeated. Several entries elsewhere are marked as pulled or amended by a later resolution number; the index records those procedural notes but does not attach vote tallies, mover/second information, or the text of motions.
Next steps and public process items in the index include a public hearing setting for the tax-levy override rescission and multiple items described as authorizations to accept grant funds and amend the 2026 budget. The index itself is a planning and record document; it lists proposed and scheduled actions but generally does not show final decisions, roll-call votes, or supporting documents. Readers seeking outcomes, full resolutions, or vote records will need the Legislature’s meeting minutes, resolution texts, or subsequent certified minutes.