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JOHNSTOWN The Fulton County Board of Supervisors last week approved the sale of a tax-foreclosed property in the city of Gloversville to a private owner in what officials said is a “unique” situation due to COVID.
The board authorized sale of a property at 59 Bloomingdale Ave. to adjacent property owner Keith Lachmayer as part of the county’s Operation Green Scene. The vacant parcel sold for $500.
The resolution approved at the County Office Building indicated that County Treasurer Terry Blodgett was contacted by Lachmayer.
“Mr. Lachmayer has expressed interest in improving the vacant parcel to be used in conjunction with his next-door residence,” the resolution said.
A screenshot of Monday s Fulton County Board of Supervisors meeting. (The Leader-Herald/Michael Anich)
JOHNSTOWN The Fulton County Board of Supervisors on Monday adopted a Fulton County Police Reform and Reinvention Plan in accordance with a state mandate.
The plan had been worked on for several months by an advisory committee and pertains to ways to reform or revise operations within the Fulton County Sheriff’s Department. The committee had met publicly Oct. 27, Nov. 10, Dec. 1, Dec. 15 and Feb. 9.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year by executive order mandated local police departments across New York state come up with a plan by April 1 to address racial issues among the ranks of law enforcement.
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JOHNSTOWN The Fulton County Board of Supervisors recently adopted a local law to allow Sheriff Richard Giardino to recruit corrections officers from counties contiguous to Fulton County.
Action by the board followed a public hearing on the matter.
The sheriff has needed a larger pool of officers to serve the Fulton County Correctional Facility at Route 29 and Harrison Street. Supervisors voted to adopt local law “B” of 2020 allowing not only residents of Fulton County to serve as corrections officers, but residents of continuous counties, such as Montgomery, Saratoga and Herkimer counties.
“It will help me out,” Giardino said Thursday. “It gives me a larger pool of applicants.”
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JOHNSTOWN Outgoing Fulton County Board of Supervisors Chairman Warren Greene’s tenure this year was marked by COVID-19, and that played prominently in his recent farewell address to the board.
The Gloversville 6th Ward supervisor said that when he was selected as 2020 county chairman, he “signed up for a major responsibility and an added obligation of my time.”
“During my first few weeks, I had carved out three things I wanted to accomplish, or at least get a good start on, to both push the economy forward and to ensure the health and safety of our citizens,” Greene said. “In addition, a fourth project came more clearly into focus for me during the course of the year. Then came the coronavirus that later became better known as COVID-19. After the whirlwind of dealing with the pandemic in March, April, and into May, the subsequent months became frustrating, agitating, tiresome, and somewhat of a grind. Along the way, I was in the board offic