Jeanette Wolfberg is reporting for The Columbia Paper on the August 10 meeting of the Columbia County Board of Supervisors. The meeting began with a public hearing on the Columbia-Greene Community College 2022-23 operating budget, which the board subsequently approved. During the hearing, college President Carlee Drummer noted that the waiting list to get into the school’s nursing program this fall had 45 people. Following the hearing, county Comptroller Jim Breig and Treasurer P.J. Keeler summarized preliminary financial indicators for the year so far. Breig and Keeler shared that the county is starting to work on property foreclosures since 2016. During the COVID crisis, the county could not do foreclosures. Asked if the county could do four years to catch up, Keeler said it all depends on the availability of staff. Each foreclosure takes time and requires sending out notices and waiting 90 days for a response. Keeler also reported that according to some real estate brokers, 20 to 30 percent of all homes for sale in the county are listed for more than $1 million, and that “they’ve never seen anything like it.” Despite this trend, brokers report that home sales are dropping and the county’s mortgage tax revenue has been “flat.” The Board adopted 59 resolutions, including authorizing agreements with each of Columbia County’s six public school districts, to assign a school resource deputy from September 1, through June 24, 2023, at a cost of $40,000 per district. The full Board of Supervisors will next meet at 7 p.m. on Sept. 14. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.