What Happens When Your Waiter Canât Afford Rent
Many towns in rural New York are bustling with city visitors, pushing up rental costs and pushing out workers.
“I’m at a point where I can’t expand my business and am at a loss of what I’m supposed to do next,” said LaToya Flood, who owns a restaurant in Kingston and is having a hard time finding workers.Credit.Sasha Maslov for The New York Times
By Kaya Laterman
July 23, 2021
If LaToya Flood had her way, she would hire an additional five to seven employees at Ruby Mae Soul Food Restaurant, which she has operated for three years in Kingston, N.Y. With her business open now just on Fridays and Saturdays, Ms. Flood and her sole employee, her mother, prepare all week for what could be a thriving, full-time business.
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Cities to make decision on municipal elections agreement soon Hall County s elections board and staff process absentee ballots Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. The process involves verifying signatures and placing ballots in batches for counting. Votes won t actually be tabulated until Election Day. - photo by Scott Rogers
In the coming weeks and months, Hall County municipalities will make a decision on how best to run the upcoming local elections.
One alternative is a six-year intergovernmental agreement proposed by the Hall County elections board that would streamline and uniform the local elections process for each city.
“The main objective in writing the new (agreement) has been to provide for consistency in conducting all municipal elections,” said Hall County Elections Director Lori Wurtz. “Since we could be conducting up to six separate elections at one time, having unified agreements in place to streamli
The Hall County Board of Elections is asking for an injunction against the county government to stop it from taking any personnel action against Election Director Lori Wurtz.
Wurtz is serving a 90-day probation period after receiving a poor performance evaluation in February that cited problems during the 2020 election cycle. The 90-day probation period is expected to end in April.
The request for the injunction came in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Hall County Superior Court. In the suit, the elections board is claiming county officials violated the state constitution when they amended the election board s enabling legislation in 2018 to make the elections director report to the county administrator instead of the elections board.