A new audio system at the Town of Queensbury, with a first use yesterday evening, did not record the town’s planning board meeting. What should have been an easy use of the USB-thumb drive, failed, said town Land Use Planner Laura Moore who was at the meeting.
Not to worry. They have a back up system to put audio onto the town’s website, she said, but it is taking a bit longer than usual.
The Town Planning Board is no longer running meetings via Zoom or posting them to YouTube. They will go back to posting audio-only, post-COVID, Moore said.
Queensbury was one of the first municipalities in the area to return to in-person meetings in late April. The town meeting room is large and can accommodate over a dozen people, separated in chairs by six or more feet. More space will be available now that COVID restrictions have been lifted by the governor.
However, the audio system before last night was notoriously hard on the in-person viewing public. Sound was either too low to hear easily or was loud with feedback or other distortions.
Nielsen Building adding three spaces
BBL Carlton, LLC, a construction services company in Albany, won approval last night to reconfigure their building at 40 Media Drive in Queensbury, home to the Nielson media company, famous for the nielsen ratings of television and other media reference information.
Glens Falls National Bank will take up space on the second floor of the building as their main office on Glen Street in Glens Falls is renovated. Two more spaces, about 2,000 and 16,000 square feet each, will be constructed for unnamed tenants, planning board documents say. The 66,000 square foot building has over 400 parking spaces, more than enough for the proposed use, staff notes say.
Tracey Road Equipment updating parking lot
Land use planner Laura Moore said the Planning Board approved the site plan modification for Tracey Holding, LLC. The company is a construction equipment dealership at 280 Corinth Rd. in the town. The plan calls for the company to cover a gravel parking lot that they use to display inventory with “shoulder stone,” a type of multi-sized gravel that compacts very well, according to the Aggregate Crushing Plant website.