Sarah Trafton is reporting for Columbia-Greene Media that Greene County lawmakers September 2, will vote to approve the members of the newly established Police Reform and Reinvention Committee. Creation of the committee follows a June state executive order requiring all municipalities with a police agency to conduct a review of its policies and procedures and to develop an improvement plan that will address the needs of the community. Named to the committee are Catskill Central School District Superintendent Ronel Cook; the Rev. Richard Turpin of Second Baptist Church; Rita Taylor of Hop-o-Nose; Gary Slutzky of Mountaintop Progressives; Greene County Public Defender Angelo Scaturro; Greene County Chamber of Commerce President Jeff Friedman; Community Life Church Pastor Rick Snowden; Kate Oldakowski of the Mobile Crisis Assessment Team; Rabbi Zoe B. Zak of Temple Israel; Greene County District Attorney Joseph Stanzione; and Greene County Sheriff Pete Kusminsky, Undersheriff Adam Brainard, Capt. Tracy Quinn and Lt. Andrew Overbaugh. Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden will serve as committee chair. In addition to the Greene County Sheriff’s Office, departments from the villages of Catskill, Athens, and Coxsackie, and towns of Cairo, Durham, Windham, and Hunter will be approved to serve, as well. A meeting schedule has yet to be set, Kusminsky said. Lawmakers will also vote this week on a contract with Police Management Services in the amount of $15,000 to work with the Greene County Sheriff's Office through the accreditation process, including reviewing policies and procedures and making recommendations, in preparation for an on-site accreditation assessment by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services. The office was last accredited in 1992. Read more about this story at HudsonValley360 [dot] com.