TIMES
SOUTHERN
Saving
$80,000
Marlboro gets a
financial update
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Vol. 13, No 4
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JANUARY 27 - FEBRUARY 2, 2016
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Highland Assisted Living seeks expansion
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Representatives of New Village View
Assisted Living facility on Grove Street
in Highland returned to the Lloyd Town
Board to request a zoning change for their
parcel that would allow them to upgrade
and expand their facility to twice its present size. They indicated that this is only a
preliminary discussion and were simply
making an inquiry to see if the board
would consider the change. Supervisor
Paul Hansut stressed that this was just a
presentation and that the board was not
taking any action at this time. He added
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Lloyd welcomes new police officer
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Last week, Patrick Witherow, Director
of Business and Finance for the Marlboro
School District, updated the school board
on the district’s transportation costs, its
Business Office Operations and budget
projections in a PowerPoint presentation.
Witherow said when Quality Bus
Services was awarded the transportation
contract the initial savings was estimated
at $6,700 for the 2015-16 school year, but
upon further analysis the anticipated savings will be $80,465.
Witherow explained the $80K in savings: if the previous vendor, George M.
Carroll, still had the contract the cost
would have been $3,112,655 for the 201516 school year. The cost of Quality Bus
Services, however, is $3,032,190 for this
year. This later figure even includes the
district’s annual expenditure of $25,000
for the fuel station lease payment they
will begin making to the town as per a
shared services agreement. After 10 years
the fuel tanks will be paid off and the district’s payments end but the fuel sharing
agreement continues.
Witherow said Quality Bus has made
some significant improvements over the
previous vendor; every vehicle has a camera – one for the small buses and two for
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Mark Reynolds
The Lloyd Town Board has appointed Christopher Miller to the position of a full-time Lloyd Police Officer at the base salary of $40,278, upon
the recommendation of Police Chief Daniel Waage.
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