Glens Falls: Taxi fees and fares schedule will need revision. Building permit fees updated.

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Taxicab schedule of fares and fines will need revision

The City of Glens Falls approved the final fees and fares for taxis that operate in the city at their meeting Tuesday Jan. 24, but the schedule of fees listed and approved in the council's packet was the wrong one, officials with the city are saying today.

The error came to light when FoothillsBusinessDaily.com noticed that the fares that would have been charged to riders in Section C of the fare schedule did not comport with reporting we had completed earlier. Earlier reporting said the fare structure would be a single payment for rides inside the city and another for rides that start in the city and end outside.

[Read our taxicab coverage here.]

The schedule of fees in the packet Tuesday included taxi meters which charge by the mile. In actuality, they will not be required of taxicabs, officials tell us. A new, corrected schedule of fares will go before the Common Council at their next meeting, officials are saying.

Exactly how the wrong schedule ended up in the packet has not been explained.

FoothillsBusinessDaily.com had posted a story earlier today that used the new schedule of fees and was calling sources to try and learn and correct what had gone wrong in our original reporting when we learned that the new schedule was in error. For now, we are standing by our earlier coverage but will make corrections if needed.

Building Permits and Fees approved

The building permits fees for 2023 were approved without fanfare at the Glens Falls City Council meeting Jan. 24, 2023. They will be posted to the city’s website soon, officials say. Some 2023 fees had been listed on the website already. The new list supersedes any list already posted on the website, said Chip McTiernan, the special assistant to mayor Bill Collins. See our images for the various fees.