Guilderland will strive to maintain an unrestricted fund balance of not less than 15 percent and not more than 35 percent of budgeted appropriations in each of the general, highway, water and sewer funds, the policy says.

Last month, the quasi-judicial zoning board in Guilderland issued an interpretation that clearly needs a legislative reaction. The new category of short-term rentals booked online is not specifically addressed in the Guilderland code and it needs to be.

Projects could come along that would violate “guidelines that we want to put in place,” said Councilwoman Christine Napierski. “So that’s why a moratorium is necessary, to say, ‘Hold it; wait a minute. This is a project that may not be in compliance with our future vision of our town.’”

Town board members held firm on the need for Loren Pruskowski to allow a town trail on his family’s property, linking eastern and western Guilderland, if he wanted the rezone to make his proposed solar facility possible.

Pharmacist Zarina Jalal had filed ethics complaints regarding Albany County’s contract with Genoa Healthcare, which operates a pharmacy at the Department of Mental Health building in the city of Albany, alleging that the county did not follow its own requests-for-proposal process, and helped a former county official’s daughter get the head pharmacist job at the location.

Robyn Gray, Chairwoman, Guilderland Coalition For Responsible Growth

Task force members are to be appointed by the school board in January and are to share their recommendations with the board by the fall of 2024 with the goal of having a capital project referendum in May 2025.

A Dec. 1 letter to Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber stated the Altamont Rescue Squad “will be discontinuing providing basic life support emergency medical services” within Guilderland and portions of Knox.