Rather
than risk a potentially costly lawsuit,
county officials decided to
trash the bids and exercise a renewal option on last year's contract, which is $ 500,000 more expensive.
«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.»