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Year end talk about rural transit and dog leash laws
Dec 31, 2010 6:21 am
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="The town of Athens has adopted new leash laws for the new year, which other Greene County towns are now pondering."]
[/caption]This has been a week of year-end meetings, just as next week -- and particularly this Saturday and Sunday -- are when local municipalities all undergo their annual "reorganizations," choosing new department heads, naming key functionaries, and distributing political rewards as quietly as possible. The Register-Star reports this morning that at a year end meeting in Copake, the subject of a new bus route for eastern Columbia County came up in discussion before the town board Thursday night, December 30, along with last-minute financial transactions and a decision "to begin a program recognizing employees or citizens who formulate cost-saving procedures for the town." Over in Greene County, the Daily Mail is reporting on a year-end push in Athens for a new local law regulating how dogs are to be licensed. The new regulations will go into effect on January 1. The Copake public transit talk arose when Supervisor Reggie Crowley cited an e-mail he received from a resident recommending that the town or county acquire one of the trolley buses that will no longer be utilized in the city of Hudson, then talked of a discussion he had with county Board of Supervisors Chairman Roy Brown and county Tourism Department Administrator Ann Cooper about creating a bus loop around the eastern part of Columbia County, mainly geared toward tourists who use Amtrak and never leave the county seat. Everyone liked the idea but worried that the soon-to-be-available trolleys don’t go over 30 mph. For the full stories click on The Daily Mail or Register-Star links.
[/caption]This has been a week of year-end meetings, just as next week -- and particularly this Saturday and Sunday -- are when local municipalities all undergo their annual "reorganizations," choosing new department heads, naming key functionaries, and distributing political rewards as quietly as possible. The Register-Star reports this morning that at a year end meeting in Copake, the subject of a new bus route for eastern Columbia County came up in discussion before the town board Thursday night, December 30, along with last-minute financial transactions and a decision "to begin a program recognizing employees or citizens who formulate cost-saving procedures for the town." Over in Greene County, the Daily Mail is reporting on a year-end push in Athens for a new local law regulating how dogs are to be licensed. The new regulations will go into effect on January 1. The Copake public transit talk arose when Supervisor Reggie Crowley cited an e-mail he received from a resident recommending that the town or county acquire one of the trolley buses that will no longer be utilized in the city of Hudson, then talked of a discussion he had with county Board of Supervisors Chairman Roy Brown and county Tourism Department Administrator Ann Cooper about creating a bus loop around the eastern part of Columbia County, mainly geared toward tourists who use Amtrak and never leave the county seat. Everyone liked the idea but worried that the soon-to-be-available trolleys don’t go over 30 mph. For the full stories click on The Daily Mail or Register-Star links.