KNOX — At its March 13 meeting, the Knox Town Board discussed consolidating the job openings of the park laborer and dog-control officer in order to save money by paying one salary.

Supervisor Vasilios Lefkaditis said that he believed Lou Saddlemire, who had served as the dog-control officer and park laborer before resigning at the end of last year, had not logged in all the hours he worked and was paid significantly less than what he worked for, meaning that the town would need to estimate more hours to pay a new employee. The board agreed to look into the funds further and discuss it at the next meeting.

Lefkaditis told The Enterprise on Tuesday that the board would consider a full-time position encompassing the jobs of maintenance, park laborer, snow-plow driver, cleaner, and dog-control officer. The town had originally advertised for the dog-control officer job with a salary of $6,700 and the separate park laborer job with a wage of $16.20 an hour. Lefkaditis said he was not sure what the salary would be for a full-time job encompassing these tasks.

Other business

In addition, the town board also:

— Voted to donate $100 to Kiernan Hanley for his Eagle Scout project, building a shelf-and-cabinet unit for the Berne Public Library;

— Heard from Albany County Comptroller Michael Conners, who asked the board to consider supporting a state bill to close a “loophole” allowing websites to not be charged a local sales tax;

— Approved a request for proposals for equipment for the town park. Lefkaditis said that the cost would be limited to $125,000 from a grant. The supervisor said that the equipment should arrive on July 19 and be built by volunteers in the following days;

— Heard from Councilman Kenneth Saddlemire that he was looking for qualified vendors to be used in projects funded by the Clean Energy Communities grant and was also waiting to hear from the New York Power Authority;

— Discussed a bill to combat blight in abandoned or vacant buildings. The town attorney said that the bill had been updated so that currently inhabited buildings would not be targeted;

— Approved a memorandum of lease between the town and the Knox Historical Society for the Saddlemire Homestead; and

— Discussed changing the hours of operation for the transfer station; and

— Heard a suggestion from Ernie Cupernell to start a table-tennis club at the town hall, which could be held in tandem with a proposed after-school program.