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Gloversville purchases foreclosed houses for $145K | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 GLOVERSVILLE – The Common Council Tuesday night unanimously approved purchasing 10 foreclosed properties for a total of $145,404 from Fulton County in what Mayor Vince DeSantis called a “watershed” moment in the city’s battle against blighted properties. “These are properties that were foreclosed on in 2020,” DeSantis said. “Out of all of the properties that were foreclosed on [in Gloversville] there were only 22 of them, and only 13 of them were houses, the others were vacant lots or commercial properties. So, we offered to make the county whole for all of the taxes and penalties on these properties over the past three years. The city will now benefit from having control over these properties.” ....
aonyon@leaderherald.com GLOVERSVILLE The Common Council has officially signed off on the city’s acquisition of the former Littauer Building at 12-18 S. Main St. from the Fulton County Center for Regional Growth. The city plans to demolish the partially collapsed structure later this year. The Common Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the city’s acquisition of the former Littauer Building, formalizing the transfer of the property to the city from the CRG approved by the agency’s Board of Directors on Jan. 22. The resolution approved by the Common Council states, “The buildings situated thereon are in an unsafe condition and need to be demolished … the city is prepared to undertake the demolition of same upon acquiring ownership and title to the property and it is believed it is in the public interest to do so.” ....
aonyon@leaderherald.com GLOVERSVILLE Organizers of a code blue shelter at 144 E. Fulton St. hustled to open the facility on Friday night, moving up the opening date originally scheduled on Monday to help people got off the street overnight during the forecasted frigid weather. The shelter organized by the Center of Hope Advisory Board and Gloversville Free Methodist Church will be operated by the Interfaith Partnership for the Homeless, an Albany based organization that provides services and assistance to the homeless and low-income community that includes the operation of Danielle’s House in Amsterdam. The code blue shelter at 144 E. Fulton St. will take in adults age 18 and older, overnight only from 6 p.m. to 9 a.m. when code blue orders are issued by the Fulton County Department of Social Services through April 31. ....
Gloversville will pay $25k to establish homeless shelter | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS GLOVERSVILLE The Common Council voted 7-0 Tuesday night to contribute $25,000 toward the establishment of a Code Blue temporary homeless shelter to operate between Jan. 15 and April 30 at 144 E. Fulton St. Tuesday’s council vote came after months of wrangling over the issue of where a homeless shelter should be established in Gloversville. “We’ve been working very hard on finding an alternative location that would be acceptable for the Code Blue shelter, other than the 33 Bleecker St. site,” Mayor Vince DeSantis told the council. “This is enabled by virtue of the change in the zoning law that we effectuated Jan. 1, which allowed Code Blue shelters in the commercial zone.” ....
aonyon@leaderherald.com GLOVERSVILLE The city will contribute $25,000 towards efforts to temporarily open a code blue shelter at 144 E. Fulton St. in the coming weeks, while organizers of a proposed code blue shelter at the former YWCA on Bleecker Street continue to look for a permanent solution for next winter. The Common Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the city to contribute $25,000 towards the operation of a code blue shelter at 144 E. Fulton St. Mayor Vincent DeSantis and the city worked with the Center of Hope Advisory Board to secure the East Fulton Street site for the operation of an emergency overnight shelter this winter. ....