“We’d be remiss,” Helen Lounsbury said, “if we didn’t give this group — old and new — a big round of applause.” The crowd obliged.

The bill needs to be signed into law by Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy, which is likely since in October he signed an executive order setting 21 as the minimum age to buy a flare gun in Albany County, the same age stipulated by the bill.

The audit found employees used work computers for personal matters, the town hadn’t disabled accounts for workers who had left, and a contingency plan needs regular testing as well as adoption by the town board.

On Dec. 2, the Guilderland Town Board, after hearing no comments on the demolition at a public hearing, voted unanimously to authorize the destruction of the burned building. 

“No person or entity shall sell, offer for sale, apply, offer to use biosolids or compost derived from wastewater treatment for residential, agricultural, or commercial purposes and land in the Town,” the law says. For a violation, it implements a fine of not more than $2,000 per day.

In his overview of Guilderland’s athletic programs, Austin was accommodating about the bottom line: While he advocates to meet the needs of burgeoning teams, he said, he understands budget constraints don’t always make his requests obtainable.

Since Albany County is no longer helping school districts with elections, Guilderland plans to consolidate from five polling places to three.

A winter storm watch will be in effect for most of eastern New York and western New England from 7 a.m. Tuesday until 1 a.m. Wednesday.

The state comptroller found that Guilderland, for the past four years, had not properly allocated sales-tax revenues from the county, to which Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber responded that the 1965 state law on which the comptroller’s office relies is “grossly out of date.”

Come Jan. 1, Berne will have a bipartisan town board while Republicans will hold the offices of highway superintendent, clerk, and tax collector.