Saratoga County compiles list of vaccine seekers
County also considers law to help restaurants
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Saratoga County Board of Supervisors Chair Todd Kusnierz speaks at a coronavirus update press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2020 at the Saratoga County Board room in Ballston Spa. Behind him, from left, is Wilton Supervisor John Lant, Clifton Park Supervisor Phil Barrett and Saratoga Springs Supervisor Tara Gaston.Wendy Liberatore/Times Union
BALLSTON SPA – After an effort to vaccinate homebound residents went awry last month, Saratoga County leadership announced on Wednesday that the county is building a list of residents who want the COVID-19 vaccination.
County Board of Supervisors Chairman Todd Kusnierz said that residents who want to be vaccinated can sign up on the county website. The confidential information, to which only the county health department will have access, will help the county identify who wants the vaccination. It will also allow the de
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Officials in Saratoga County provided updates Wednesday on a number of efforts related to assisting residents during the pandemic.
Saratoga County Public Health Services Commissioner Dr. Daniel Kuhles says the county is making progress in slowing the spread of COVID-19.
“We’re averaging now about 44 cases a day in the last week. At our peak on January 6th, it was 276 cases per day. So it’s a dramatic decrease,” said Kuhles.
Hospitalizations are down too, and to date, more than 32,000 county residents have received at least one dose of vaccine. Though the supply of vaccine being provided to the county through the state and federal government is increasing, demand still outstrips supply.
Capital Region communities study, embrace solar farm proposals
While Clifton Park studies solar farms, Glenville now allows them on 30-plus acres
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Panels for a solar array on the roof of Dimension Fabricators on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, in Glenville, N.Y. Clifton Park is studying locating solar farms, and Glenville passed a new law allowing them on 30-plus acres in 2021. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will WaldronShow MoreShow Less
2of5A view through the woods just off of Hubbs Road, in an area where a solar farm is being proposed, seen here on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, in Ballston Lake, N.Y. Neighbors in the area say that an access road that would be created off of Hubbs Road would cause a lot of construction traffic and create unsafe conditions. Neighbors also say that once the leaves fall off the trees that the panels of the solar farm would be easily seen from their property, ruining their view and lowering their home values. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul
For Saratoga County Partnership it s bed tax or bust
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Saratoga Partnership President and CEO Shelby Schneider speaks at an event at Wiswall Park on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Ballston Spa, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times Union
MALTA – Since its establishment in 2015, Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership had enjoyed generous funding from the county coffers, about $4.2 million over six years.
But no more. The new county leadership will adhere to the what the county is legally obliged to provide to SCPP, half of the county’s bed or hotel tax revenue, and nothing more. And as the pandemic continues to ravage county tourism, that decision could cripple SCPP s 2021 operations, since that amount is so uncertain.
Saratoga County panel to weigh possible discipline over pandemic pay program
County also forgives overpayment to Partnership
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BALLSTON SPA – A 7-hour marathon meeting of the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors, much of it in closed, executive session, authorized Ballston Supervisor Eric Connolly “to decide and facilitate what, if any, action should be taken to any personnel as a result of the findings” about the county s pandemic pay program.
On Thursday, Connolly wouldn t say what steps he ll take to determine recommendations regarding the roundly criticized and discarded plan that paid some employees, administrators and elected officials time and a half for every hour worked during the early days of the pandemic.