School board adopts $39.9M budget | The Daily Gazette
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JOHNSTOWN Thanks to a $776,948 increase in state and federal aid, the Greater Johnstown School District school board Thursday night adopted its first budget in four years that doesn’t seek to break the New York state tax cap.
All school board members in attendance Thursday night voted to adopt the proposed $39.96 million 2021-22 budget. The budget includes a 2.5% year-over-year spending increase of $992,700 and a 3.8% property tax levy increase of $393,247. The budget spends $2.5 million of the school district’s roughly $13.2 million in fund balance reserves, $519,767 less than the reserve spending for the 2020-21 school budget.
Vaccine hesitancy apparent in Fulton County | The Daily Gazette
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Despite having the highest 7-day average COVID-19 positivity rate in the region, the lowest vaccination percentage of the six rural counties in the Mohawk Valley and a highly publicized virus outbreak at its county jail affecting more than 80 people the Fulton County Public Health Department still struggled to give away doses of the Moderna vaccine Thursday, leaving 60 doses unused.
“We’ve never had leftover vaccine,” Fulton County Director of Public Health Laurel Headwell said after the end of her department’s Point of Distribution [POD] vaccine clinic, held at Fulton-Montgomery Community College on Thursday.