«What resulted was overly
broad legislation that would prevent the county from reimbursing any municipality in the county for any fees that are on their tax warrants, and so the response from not just myself, but the mayors of Cohoes and Watervliet and Supervisor Paula Mahan was that this
legislation changing a decades - old way of making municipalities whole for their tax levies was really thrown in to complete and utter confusion and disarray, with legislative leaders saying that the
legislation or the resolution meant something different than the letter of the resolution, and all of it really could have been addressed if the leadership of the county legislature had simply
reached out, sent us a letter, picked up the phone to have a conversation about their concerns with respect to the trash fee.»
«We have
reached broad agreement on the inspector general
legislation which will enhance the effectiveness of the Department, and at the same [time] will increase the public's confidence in the police force, building stronger police - community relations,» Quinn said in a statement.