No Malta Deputy Clerk for The Rest of The Year – by H. Wessell

MALTA, July 6 – The Town Board has been able to compensate for some of the about $25,000

it has lost in connection with the lawsuit by a now-former Deputy Town Clerk, involving treatment by the Town Clerk during her employment. It voted on this date to transfer from the Town Clerk’s budget to the General Fund $15,393 it would have paid the Deputy for the balance of this year – thus eliminating the position.

   $5,000 of that amount is the direct payment it agreed to make, after insurance, toward the $100,000 settlement with Jennifer Choudy, who left Town employment July 3 as part of the agreement.

Read the entire article in the July 16th edition.

Troy Files Lawsuit to Claim Schaghticoke Property – By Christine Barton

Rensselaer County- The towns of Schaghticoke, Brunswick and North Greenbush were recently informed through a legal petition filed by the city of Troy that 67 properties throughout these three municipalities were determined to fall in the legal boundaries City of Troy. The City of Troy recently conducted its first citywide reassessment project since the 1970’s. The company that conducted the project was GAR Associates. Inc. It was through the photographs taken during the project that identified that these properties were positioned technically in the taxing jurisdiction of the city. While the bordering municipalities have had these properties on their assessment rolls for years, this discovery prompted Troy to file a petition to have these properties added to the city’s assessment rolls and eliminate them from the rolls of the municipalities that they are currently being taxed under. Of the 67 properties in question, 55 were located in Brunswick, five were in North Greenbush and seven were in Schaghticoke.

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