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GLOVERSVILLE The Common Council on Wednesday night voted 5-2 to adopt its Special Investigation Committee’s report on Councilman-At-Large William Rowback Jr., a document that accused him of “harassment” and “intimidation” against city employees.
The panel comprised of 6th Ward Councilman Wrandy Siarkowski, chairman, 2nd Ward Councilman Arthur Simonds, and 1st Ward Councilwoman Marcia Weiss called a special council meeting at City Hall to publicly air the report.
Siarkowski spent about 30 minutes reading the report, which was adopted 5-2. Voting yes were: Siarkowski, Simonds, Weiss, 5th Ward Councilman Jay Zarelli, and 3rd Ward Councilwoman Betsy Batchelor. Voting no were Rowback and 4th Ward Councilwoman Ellen Anadio.
BLM activist set to run against retired deputy for Gloversville council seat | The Daily Gazette
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On Saturday, Lashawn Hawkins, candidate for city councilperson-at-large, did one of the things she’s best known for in Fulton County, conducting a peaceful “SAY HER NAME Breonna Taylor” memorial protest at the Four Corners in Gloversville.
The event marked the one-year anniversary that Taylor, 26, an emergency room technician, was shot to death in her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky by police officers conducting what has been described as a botched drug raid. After forcing entry into her apartment, police exchanged gunfire with Taylor’s boyfriend, who survived and was not criminally charged, but she was killed by police in her bed. Her family has since settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the city of Louisville for $12 million, but her story did not initially receive the national attention it would gain later in the summer after the police killing of Ge
Gloversville Council votes 5-2 to grant severance pay | The Daily Gazette
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GLOVERSVILLE The Common Council voted 5-2 Tuesday night to amend the city’s personnel policy to include a “separation package” providing a 90-days-of-pay severance check and health insurance coverage to the city’s appointed officers who have served longer than one year.
If a new mayor in January 2022 were to change personnel for each of the appointed positions, under the new policy it would cost the city an estimated $100,135 worth of severance pay to replace those positions, not counting the cost of maintaining the health insurance for those officials.
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GLOVERSVILLE The Common Council on Tuesday voted 5-2 to approve a one-year contract to hire a private garbage hauler to collect the city’s residential garbage starting May 1.
The city is hiring Twin Bridges Waste and Recycling, out of Clifton Park, to provide weekly garbage collection at single family, two-family and three-family homes.
The private hauler will replace the weekly garbage pickup currently performed by the city’s Department of Public Works. Four-unit or more houses/apartment buildings will not receive garbage pickup from Twin Bridges. Buildings with four or more units in Gloversville are currently required to pay for their own private garbage collection, and city officials said that will not change.
Lashawn Hawkins — who first rose to prominence organizing her signature "silent" style of Black Lives Matter protests over the summer — has decided to throw her…