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Amsterdam council adopts seven resolutions including appointments, lease and equipment purchases
Summary
The Amsterdam Common Council approved seven resolutions and two consent items covering appointments, a $3,000 opioid-settlement budget amendment for police equipment, a wastewater equipment purchase and a five-year bocce-club lease. All motions moved on recorded roll calls and carried.
The Amsterdam Common Council moved through seven resolutions and two consent agenda items and adopted them on roll-call votes. The measures included adopting minutes of the previous meeting; appointments to commissioners of deeds; a $3,000 amendment to record opioid-settlement revenue and allocate it to police equipment; a transfer of sewer funds for wastewater equipment; audit approval; renewal of a five-year lease with the Fort Jackson Bocce Club; and a one-year chemicals contract for the water treatment plant running April 2026–March 2027.
“A resolution amending the fiscal year budget to increase prescription drug settlement revenue by $3,000 and increasing police equipment expense by $3,000” passed on roll call, the clerk recorded. The council also approved a purchase of a compact track loader through Milton Cat with a listed price of $82,992.69 and a $35,000 trade-in, yielding a net purchase price of $54,992.69 as described in the transfer resolution. Consent items included the Fort Jackson Bocce Club lease renewal for five years at $1 per year, effective 07/01/2026 through 07/01/2031.
