John B. Haluska, 2nd Vice President Guilderland Garden Club

Guilderland is a wonderful town, a great place to live, a model of just what a town should be in many ways. To keep it that way, though, the people of Guilderland need a vision for the future, a sense of what they want their town to look like, what characteristics they want it to have.

GUILDERLAND — Over the course of about 90 minutes on Monday, the nine members of Guilderland’s Comprehensive Plan Update Committee received a broad outline about how the next 16 months would play out.

The Guilderland School Board at its next meeting, on Nov. 15, will discuss the possibility of having a second school resource officer.

“Whether there’s going to be a recession or downturn, who knows but we have to plan for the worst and hope for the best,” said Supervisor Peter Barber.

“The policy will also give us a level playing field so the hospital knows that you can’t just hold us hostage,”said Jay Tyler, director of the Guilderland Emergency Medical Services. “We’re not your staff. We have to get EMS crews back into the town and back into the cities to answer 911 calls.”

The update to the 2006 master plan was announced at the November meeting of the Altamont Board of Trustee.

Betty Head, Altamont