During a May 7 meeting Altamont Mayor Kerry Dineen said, “We got four letters about this subject because … in one area where I thought the leash law was a leash law — personally, I always thought that — we actually don’t have it, a leash is not necessarily required on dogs outside of private property.”
During his presentation, Foundry Square engineer Daniel Hershberg explained to the Guilderland Planning Board the process of decontaminating the brownfield site.
The café, owned by village native Ed Mitzen’s Business for Good, will have regular hours of 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., save for Tuesdays, when it will be closed.
Altamont is seeking $1.2 million in funding for improvements to its wastewater treatment plant, while Voorheesville has asked for $300,000 to help pay for upgrades in the Salem Hills neighborhood.
Kristin O’Neill, the assistant director of the Committee on Open Government, said the entire point of the provision is to allow the public to follow along with the public body as it discusses the document.
Incumbent Timothy Kremer was the night’s lowest vote-getter, with 323 ballots cast in his favor, while Kathy Fiero nearly doubled Kremer’s count, receiving 643 votes, and Matthew Bergerson also far outpaced Kremer with 550 votes.
In October, engineer Richard Straut, who pulls double-duty as Voorheesville’s mayor, recommended that Altamont study the introduction of potassium ferrate into the drinking water at the Brandle Road site.
The Guilderland Town Board on May 7 voted unanimously to accept Guilderland Village LLC’s application for a proposed Planned Unit Development on 13 acres of land spread across five separate tax parcels between 2298 and 2314 Western Ave.
