Queensbury took up the traditional organizational meeting resolutions on Friday Jan. 1. The resolutions generally appoint, or reappoint, people to committees. They establish meeting days and times and generally outline the rules that will be followed. Tim McNulty was sworn in as Ward 4 councilperson.
Also in that list goes a long number of companies that have won contracts to provide goods and services to the town:
- $120,000 to Badger Meter Inc. for radio-read, water meter products and services. It’s a global company with headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisc.
- Standard Medical Testing Services of Queensbury, a division of Monuntain Medical Testing of Maine, approved an agreement to provide drug testing and other services with the town. They are paid per medical procedure and cover tests such as urine and drug screening.
- $20,000 to the Queensbury Land Conservancy. The group will inventory the public lands, manage the land and appear as-needed at various town meetings.
- $30,000 and $40,000 to Queensbury Senior Citizens, Inc. $30,000 goes toward continued programming for the town’s senior population. $40,000 covers administrative costs of running the town’s activity center.
- Chazen Companies of Glens Falls will serve as engineering and technical consultants to various boards and commissions in Queensbury. The contract stipulates hourly rates between $71 for project administrators to $211 for work provided by senior principals of the company.
- C.T. Male Associates of Latham entered into an agreement with the town to provide as-needed engineering services. They are primarily a civil engineering firm covering landscape, architecture, surveying and other engineering services. Their rates range from $88 per hour for a civil field technician to $198 per hour for a quality assurance/quatlity control manager.
- $300 to the Adirondack Park Local Government Review Board.
- The town earlier entered into a billing agreement with the three emergency/rescue squads, Friday's resolution outlined the rates ranging from transportation at $25 per loaded mile to emergency procedures up to $1,400 per response.
- Finally, the town approved payments to nonunion staff. The prices range from $12.50 per hour for a recreational program specialist to $95,345 per year for the town’s water superintendent. See the full range here.