To the Editor:

A question for the Albany County executive: More than six months of the municipal budget year has elapsed; with commerce shuttered for the last several months, how has this affected sales-tax collections and local shares?

Has the county issued guidance to municipal leadership to prepare them for possible cuts to services and tax shortfalls?

Berne’s Town Board and superintendent of highways seem oblivious to this, and continue to spend like drunken sailors on shore leave!

I am concerned that the current board is unprepared to administer government functions during the pandemic.

Gerry Chartier

Berne

Editor’s note: On May 28, The Enterprise ran a table listing Albany County sales-tax revenue for each municipality. Berne has a $2.46 million 2020 budget, 41 percent of which was funded by sales tax. In that same edition, we editorialized on the subject: “No one ever regrets planning for the worst.”

Gerry Chartier is the brother-in-law of Berne Councilman Joel Willsey.