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15 Aug

Counties increase funding for FMCC for first time since 2018

Tyler A. McNeil0 CommentsEmail Newsletter, Fulton County, Local News, The Gloversville Leader HeraldBoard of Supervisors, budget, Fulton Montgomery Community College, funding, Jon Stead, SUNY

TOWN OF JOHNSTOWN — Fulton-Montgomery Community College will receive an increase in county funding for the first time in five years.The $17.1 million budget for the upcoming academic year includes $1,645,821 in funding from Montgomery and Fulton counties — 20% of the pie. This accounts for a total $200,000 increase in regional support as the school wades through rough fiscal currents.Fulton County lawmakers approved the proposal on Monday, nearly a month after the Montgomery County Legislature. The state budget passed in May included a flat sum of $4,248,890 in aid."The state would like you to think that we were kept…

17 Oct

Gloversville Council OKs 2 more cops, nixes police college tuition reimbursement

Jason Subik0 CommentsLocal Newsbudget, college tuition, funding, Gloversville, police

GLOVERSVILLE — The Gloversville Common Council on Friday concluded its 2022 budget workshop process voting to hire two new police officers, instead of four, to give raises to the city's non-union officials, and to eliminate all police officer college tuition reimbursement from the budget. The council had left all of the personnel items to the fourth and final meeting of its budget process. During the first three meetings, the council had agreed to reduce Mayor Vince DeSantis' $19.4 million budget proposal by $96,220, with $60,000 cut from the police department's proposed $3.7 million budget (19.3% of the city's total budget)…