DUNWOODY, Ga. â A local synagogue is taking on a new initiative to increase the number of vaccinated people by offering a Sunday shot schedule as an alternative to work-day appointments.
Hosting a vaccine site is the latest Temple Emanu-El effort to assist communities affected by the pandemic. The open space in the Brill Family social hall, used as a polling site during elections, has sat empty for some time while services remain online or in small group gatherings.
The underutilized space sparked an idea filled with the Jewish tradition of
pikuach nefesh, that nothing is more sacred than saving a human life.
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JOHNSTOWN The Fulton County Department of Social Services with many daily public contacts estimates nearly 70 percent of its employees have received COVID-19 vaccinations.
DSS Commissioner Anne Solar told the Board of Supervisors’ Human Services Committee recently that there’s no way of knowing for sure how many of the over 100 agency employees have been vaccinated.
But she said the department “believes” at least 69 percent have been vaccinated.
“We were able to avoid a few quarantines,” she said.
Solar explained that potential quarantine situations were avoided due to caseworker vaccinations. She said incidents resulted from normal DSS recipient/consumer contacts.
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JOHNSTOWN The Fulton County Department of Social Services wants to continue use of three caseworkers in schools, which it feels are benefiting troubled and absentee students.
DSS Commissioner Anne Solar recently addressed the Board of Supervisors’ Human Services Committee about the youth education situation at the County Office Building.
She requested authorization to continue a contract with the Gloversville Enlarged School District for two School Intervention Partnership Program, or SIPP caseworkers. The total cost for the caseworkers with salary and fringes is approximately $152,000. The school district reimburses DSS for the local share (25 percent) of costs for salary and benefits. Federal and state funding is also kicked in, and there is no county cost after reimbursement.
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GLOVERSVILLE The city has more income from taxable property this year, but actual collecting of taxes has been a little slow going.
Gloversville’s taxable income has risen by about $4 million since last year, a positive economic sign, officials noted Tuesday.
In a brief report to the Common Council at City Hall, Assessor Joni Dennie said she has been reviewing tentative tax roll information.
She said the city of Gloversville’s taxable income has increased by $3.8 million from a year ago. She said it goes with a rising trend the last few years.
“That’s really positive,” Dennie said.