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Cheektowaga board approves detective promotion, year‑end transfers and routine infrastructure purchases
Summary
The board approved Resolution 2026‑411 promoting Police Officer Jacob Widowski to detective, finalized 2025 budget transfers and authorized purchases including a spare sewer pump; officials said some transfers were to settle variable contract and utility costs for 2025.
The Cheektowaga Town Board on June 9 approved a personnel appointment and several routine finance and capital items. By voice vote the board confirmed the appointment of Police Officer Jacob Widowski to the rank of detective effective June 10, 2026; Police Chief Coons introduced Widowski and outlined his 13 years of service and awards.
On fiscal matters the board approved a set of year‑end transfers to reconcile 2025 department budgets. Finance staff explained that several transfers were needed because of variable recycling contractor costs and higher overtime in the sanitation district; the transfers were presented as final balancing actions to close the 2025 books.
The board also authorized infrastructure and maintenance purchases: a spare flight pump for the Holtz Road pump station (proposal $17,983) to provide redundancy, continued software maintenance to sustain the town's building‑permit system during migration to a new cloud solution, and other equipment items. Council members said some purchases would be funded from sewer reserves or require future intra‑fund transfers.
Votes at a glance: Resolution 2026‑411 (detective appointment) — approved by voice; Resolution 2026‑375 (transfer of funds) — approved as final 2025 balancing transfers; Resolution 2026‑387 (pump purchase) — approved; consent agenda resolutions (2026‑375 through 409, with listed exceptions taken separately) were approved by roll call.
Next steps: Finance and departmental staff will complete accounting closeout activities, prepare any necessary mid‑year adjustments for 2026, and the sewer department will coordinate reserve transfers to cover pump purchases.
