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.
Johnstown Council votes to ban parking next to former Knox Junior High School | The Daily Gazette
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The Common Council voted unanimously Monday night to ban all parking at all times on the east side of South Perry Street in front of the former Knox Junior High School from the intersection of 1st Avenue to the intersection of 4th Ave.
Monday night Jackson told the council the Greater Johnstown School District asked for the parking change in the wake of the district’s decision to move 5th and 6th grade students to the Knox building, creating the potential for an influx of traffic during school drop off and pick up times.
Electrical issue led to pilot’s emergency landing in Fulton County, NTSB says | The Daily Gazette
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FULTON COUNTY – An apparent electrical issue led a pilot last month to make an emergency landing at the Fulton County Airport, where the plane skidded on the runway after its landing gear failed, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report on the incident.
The pilot, the only person on board, escaped without injury and no one else was injured in the March 2 incident.
Fulton Countys sheriff’s officials have previously indicated that the preliminary investigation pointed to mechanical and electrical issues as the cause and indicated smoke had entered the cockpit.
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Johnstown mayor responds to state comptroller’s audit | The Daily Gazette
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City of Johnstown Mayor Vern Jackson Monday night shot back against criticism of the city’s relationship with its computer services company ATEC Group of Albany.
On March 26, the New York State Comptroller’s Office released an audit report regarding the city’s Information Technology practices. The report criticized the city for having no formal written contract with ATEC Group, a company the city paid $92,309 to between Jan. 1, 2019 and Jan. 15, 2020. According to the report, city officials seemingly had little understanding of how the money was being spent and for precisely what services.