Albany County, New York Audit & Finance, 22 Nov 2022

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A newspaper- oh that's, right, yeah.

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Actually, delay anything.

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Sure Mr chairman Mr Reinhardt epicoro yeah miss those excused fine here Lockhart here Miller president Ms plotsky's excused Mr Simpson here and pearly here, seven out of nine president Mr chairman.

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Stay there as long as.

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It's harder here: okay, uh first order of business is to approve the previous meeting minutes in origin; second, second, okay, all in favor all right, any opposed all right. Second motion: our second.

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Is uh under previous business is local law number L for 2022 local law of the county of Albany, Albany, County, nature and historic preserve system, since we haven't had the public meeting. Yet we have to table this and our request so in this table under current business uh item, 3781 authorizing an agreement of New, York, State, Office of parks, recreation and the start: preservation, Amendment, 2022, Department of Economic Development conservation and planning budget and.

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Vicky is here and Laura hi Nikki, and this is to accept a grant from New York, State Park. Second, historic preservation for to pass through Grant to to local snowmobile clubs to maintain approximately 40 miles of trails in the county. Nothing.

C

New or different here right.

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Except we got a little bit more money this year.

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Motion to move there were no questions. Okay, yeah move; second, all right, all right, passing unanimous item; four, all right amending resolution number 45 for 2019 as amended regarding the account.

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Mr chairman, how are you uh I am not Luke Rogers. uh He is on vacation the land down under. So we all wish him well, uh the next two items he has been shepherding through. um They are both related. They are simple straight extensions of contracts, I believe the first is with New York State for the grant funding itself.

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um That's an ex there's, no added money or anything, just a claw, an extension of the time period to spend the money. The second is, with uh the contractor themselves. I believe it's Bergman um for uh both are related to The Climate resiliency plan for Albany County.

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This will extend.

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30Th 2023.. Thank you. Any questions.

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uh All in favor.

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All right any opposed, no uh okay, um any questions on the next one, the second one right, sorry I didn't mean to combine them yeah.

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So now we're on item five.

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There any questions on this.

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One it's, this is the one for Birdman. Yes,.

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That's correct yeah: this is the contractor, that's doing the actual work and the plan that plan is in in process uh just again on no cost uh extension just for more time for the plan.

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Any opposed thank.

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You Happy Thanksgiving I am.

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Six authorizing the license agreement for a physical access connection between the county rail trail and the Newland Preserve in the city of Albany. All.

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Right, thank you chairman. Thank you, legislators Yep. This is the uh annual authorization for the appropriation to support the Cornell Cooperative Extension.

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The next one, my apologies, this is the uh the connection to the uh yeah.

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So this is a license agreement uh between uh Mohawk Hudson, Land Conservancy and uh the the county of Albany. um Basically, this is a indemnification uh to connect. There are Trails on the noon and preserve that are maintained by mobile cuts and Land. Conservancy they've also requested that um we assist in the transportation of their workers to get to The Preserve. So that's the only access point is via the rail trail, so the agreement would stipulate that we would um provide the transportation they would be conducting any maintenance to The Preserve and the trails within.

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Is this the Mohawks.

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Yeah now is: is there actually a? uh Is there construction of the path or is it gonna? That's gonna stay the same where you actually walk from the rail trail onto The, Preserve.

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There's going to be a sort of smooth incline connecting the two so.

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People are going to just smooth it out and make it a little safer.

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I think well, no, the Department of Public Works would make sure that's a smooth connection um from there. The the regular maintenance of The Preserve itself would be left to the mall of God.

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So, okay, so so Public Works is actually doing that. That connection itself.

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Hudson is just going to maintain the Newton preserve, yes, yeah, okay, all right, my wife enjoys that section just about every day good and she uh enjoyed checking it out and seeing what was going to happen and understand that now, if uh falsters, which is all clear, they've, got the liability there.

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You go yeah, there's an ambulance for it, that's right, which we already provided. Okay, uh any questions about this item. I have.

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A quick one, yes very good, just.

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On a map of it, I.

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Know the basic area there is.

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The green is the orange color. You know the first one I'll talk about yeah is the orange just that area that they own.

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And then yeah the area.

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Within the Orange Is The Preserve itself, okay,.

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And then the green is the trail yeah.

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All right, any uh any other questions. Not is there a motion here.

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Motion second, okay,.

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All in favor all.

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Any opposed all right uh is that it nope no. No now we have the uh extension authorizing and going for the maintenance and support the Cooperative Extension Association of Romney County for the year 2023.

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So this is the annual authorization for the appropriation of Cornell Cooperative Extension. uh The only difference um from this and between that and previous years is the 81 300 allocated for the healthy homes special program.

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um That is a uh previously a state funded initiative um that uh since ended and then included in the executive budget, was the 81 300.. So this is pending approval of the 2023 budget.

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Are there any questions.

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What was it the report? Is it? Is it steady or is it increase from the every four? Just because of that um I? Don't know uh the exact amount uh I know I know there is the difference for the healthy home program, but I would have to look back.

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At previous Appropriations primary that difference, okay,.

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Probably, did it go up a little bit for the register, I.

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Was assuming it was yeah.

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Yeah of about a hundred thousand so mostly.

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Probably that correct and inflationary it's the two percent non-union.

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Raises: okay, that's right! Yeah.

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All right, any other questions just.

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Clarify the 81 300, that's already approved to the executive budget.

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That's included in the executive budget yeah, so this is pending the approval of the department.

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For us in a second all in favor aye any opposed. That's it! Thank you. uh That's the last item on our agenda, so we're all gonna meet again.

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That's all right, that's right, I was just putting in a little. You know: okay, okay,.

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All in favor aye are you opposed? No okay, we're good.