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Albany City board approves 2026 budget transfers and authorizes $189 settlement in towing dispute
Summary
At its June 2 meeting, the Albany City board approved budget transfers reallocating $20,670 within the Department of Sustainability and multiple transfers in the Water Department, and authorized a $189 settlement in Dylan v. Albany City; mover/second and detailed vote tallies were not specified in the transcript.
On June 2, the Albany City board approved several 2026 budget transfers and authorized a legal settlement, the board chair announced during a short meeting that began at 4:00 p.m.
Sam F, who identified himself as chief city officer, told the board that the Department of Sustainability will transfer $20,670 from the street lighting contract services account to engineering contracted services to correct an erroneous storage rent charge for street lights and to reallocate funds to engineering for the remainder of 2026. "This transfers to reallocate funds to engineer," Sam F said when outlining the adjustment.
He also described Water Department adjustments: a transfer of $91,000 from a special contracted services account, a transfer of $71,000 to an account transcribed as "Alcohol and other equipment" (term appears in the transcript and may be a transcription error), and a $20,000 transfer to "board other equipment" to cover future invoices.
The board was also told of a legal settlement in the matter identified in the transcript as "Dylan versus City of Albany" in the amount of $189; Sam F read a short summary noting that the settlement involved a vehicle that had been towed in relation to a water emergency. The transcript did not provide additional case citations or details about the parties beyond the case name and settlement amount.
After the items were presented, a motion to approve the agenda items was made and seconded and the motion passed, according to the meeting record. The transcript does not identify who moved or seconded the motion, nor does it provide a roll-call vote tally. The meeting closed shortly after the vote.
The board did not provide further background in the transcript on the Water Department transfers' account names or the settlement's circumstances. The recorded attendee list included Kelly Kimbro, Common Council president; Robert Leer, representing the Common Council; an individual transcribed as "Jame"; and Joel Stson, chief financial manager.
