Saratoga County officials approve consultant contracts, accept $360,000 bridge design grant

At a Saratoga County public meeting, officials approved several routine contracting and funding measures, including a consultant agreement to update the county's solid-waste management plan and acceptance of a $360,000 state grant for a bridge design project.

Chad, a county staff member, told the panel the first item was "a request to authorize the contract with a consultant Barton Judas for professional services associated with our biennial update to our solid waste management plan," and said the updated plan would be submitted to the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) for review. He asked the panel to authorize the $16,500 contract; members moved, seconded and approved the request by voice vote. The transcript identifies the firm as "Barton Judas"; meeting materials should be checked to confirm the vendor name and spelling.

Also on the agenda, Chad described a request to amend the county's contract with GPI to cover additional design and construction inspection services after drainage-related changes on a pavement preservation project. He said the project is funded with state and federal dollars and carries a 5% local match already built into the budget. The amount appears in the transcript as "$41,21.76," which is not a standard numeric format; the staff presentation said funds are available in the project budget and the panel approved the amendment by voice vote. County accounting documents should be consulted to confirm the precise amendment amount.

Separately, the panel authorized acceptance of a state grant of $360,000 for design and right-of-way incidentals related to a Heath Road bridge project. "We already have this sort of baked into our 2026 budget," Chad said, and the resolution to accept the funds was approved without a budget amendment. Immediately afterward the panel authorized contracting with a consultant identified in the transcript as "manic engineering" for professional services related to the bridge replacement, for an amount recorded in the meeting as $360,000; the panel approved that contract as well.

Procedural items concluded the meeting: the panel approved the minutes from the Feb. 4, 2026 meeting and closed other business. The transcript records voice approvals for the motions but does not include a roll-call tally for any vote.

Meeting materials and the county's contract records should be consulted for vendor-name spellings and exact contract-amount figures cited in the transcript.