Vol. 36, No. 16 3 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018
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Beefing up security
Armed officers to be in all Pine Bush schools
By JASPREET GILL
[email protected]
An updated 2018-2019 budget for Pine
Bush schools now includes armed officers
in all buildings.
The additional security at each school
includes a full time Student Resource
Officer (SRO) at the high school, armed
retired police officers in all other schools
and two part time security aides at
Crispell Middle School and one security
aide at Circleville Middle School.
The changes come several weeks after
the preliminary budget raised concerns
with parents of Pine Bush elementary
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H onor F light T ribute
Town of
Montgomery
weighs
revisions to
ethics code
By JASPREET GILL
[email protected]
Stephanie Jansen
The Walker Valley Firehouse was lit up and draped with an American flag early Saturday morning to honor George Sawyer, who passed by on
his way to Stewart Airport for an Honor Flight. Story, photos on page 19.
Should elected officials serve on their
respective town or village ethics board?
In the Town of Montgomery, residents
say no.
A public hearing on an amendment
to the Town of Montgomery Ethics and
Disclosure Law was held on April 12. Two
changes to the town’s ethics law were
discussed by the town board last year
with former Attorney Andrew Gilchrist
under former Supervisor Michael Hayes.
The law, as it currently stands, serves as
the code of ethics for town employees and
town officials.
“The law that we have proposed here
makes the following changes,” says Town
of Montgomery Attorney Austin DuBois.
“In the current law, which is about 20
pages long, section 203 subsection two
says that someone...within the town, the
officer of the town or elected official in
town, is not eligible to serve on the ethics
board...Per state law, it does recommend
that there be someone from the town
[on the ethics board]. The policy reason
behind that is that if people are coming
to the ethics board wanting to know what
they should do, there should at least be
one person with the perspective as an
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