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The Fulton County Board of Supervisors on April 12 to review resolutions at the board s monthly meeting at the County Office Building in Johnstown. (The Leader-Herald/Michael Anich)
JOHNSTOWN The Fulton County Board of Supervisors on April 12 approved five resolutions related to the County Airport, which is gearing up for a large apron project this year.
The county’s 2021 capital plan includes a $1.25 million main apron reconstruction project.
Supervisors awarded a $789,609 low bid to Callanan Industries of Albany for the work. Five bids were received by the county.
“The bids came in very good,” said Perth Supervisor Gregory Fagan, chairman of the board’s Public Works Committee.
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JOHNSTOWN Fulton County government is moving forward with regular, normal in person staffing by the end of the week.
County Administrative Officer Jon Stead told the Board of Supervisors Monday that the COVID-19 plan for half the county employees work at home is concluding.
He said the county’s “workforce alternation plan” will be concluding by the end of this week. He called the COVID plan that the county implemented previously the “right decision.”
Stead said that for the past six weeks that the plan has been in place, “several shutdowns in departments” were probably averted.
In conjunction with the plan being lifted, Perth Supervisor Gregory Fagan said that collecting curbside recycling starting again next week was “very doable” for the county. The program was temporarily suspended because of a lack of drivers due to the COVID situation.
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JOHNSTOWN Fulton County is ready to commence engineering for the county landfill’s planned massive vertical expansion project.
Department of Solid Waste Director David Rhodes informed the Board of Supervisors’ Public Works Committee recently that he is ready to distribute requests for proposal for engineering the project. The committee authorized the RFP, which the full board will review Monday. Proposals would be due Feb. 24, with the county awarding a bid in March.
“We’d like to get that going as soon as possible,” Rhodes said.
Engineering for the landfill expansion is included in the county’s 2021 Capital Plan, an estimated $80,000 expenditure. The RFP was developed by Rhodes.
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JOHNSTOWN Fulton County supervisors on Monday rejected the city of Gloversville’s request for the county to pay the city for recyclables collection.
County officials said the plan didn’t make sense fiscally for the county or the city, and there was no desire to alter the county’s Local Solid Waste Management Law.
Gloversville’s request was reviewed Monday by the Fulton County Board of Supervisors’ Public Works Committee. County Department of Solid Waste Director David Rhodes said the county received a Dec. 10 letter from Gloversville Mayor Vincent DeSantis that “presumes” savings for the county.
The letter to county Administrative Officer Jon Stead noted the city is “exploring the possibility of contracting for weekly trash collection with a private vendor.”
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GLOVERSVILLE The Fulton County Center for Regional Growth Board of Directors on Friday bid farewell to a long-time board member who they say helped right the economic development agency’s finances following its reorganization.
The CRG conducted its annual meeting followed by the Board of Directors’ annual organizational meeting on Friday that saw board members Timothy Beckett of Townsend Leather and Terri Easterly of Coldwell Banker each appointed to their second three-year terms.
Attorney Bryan Taylor of the Fulton County Department of Social Services was additionally appointed to his first three-year term on the board effective Jan. 1, filling the seat of departing Treasurer Ronald Olinsky of the Greco Olinsky Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors.