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Menands board questions raises, overtime and coding in 2026 draft budget
Summary
Board members pressed staff on line-item coding (grant writer, grant-reimbursable expense, postage), questioned raises for noncontract employees, and asked for payroll/overtime and insurance recoding; staff agreed to recode items and return with a revised draft for the public hearing window.
At a budget workshop, Menands Village trustees scrutinized multiple line items of the draft 2026 budget and asked staff to correct coding, provide documentation, and reallocate expenses where appropriate.
Members asked staff to fix the consultant account that lists a "grant writer" without a clear chart-of-accounts description and to separate grant-reimbursable expenses from broad "miscellaneous" building charges so reimbursable purchases (for example, cameras) appear net of grant income. Staff reported the grant writer has mainly billed fire-related work this year and that the total village allocation should be clarified (the…
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