# Legislative Board Meeting - October 28, 2026

The Allegany County Legislative Board meeting on October 28, 2026, approved a range of grant applications and agreements. Grant actions included funding for emergency management, criminal wage-theft investigations, municipal recycling coordination, indigent legal services and public defender workload reduction, homeland security and terrorism prevention, juvenile services, and other county programs. The board also approved a proposal with MA Pulse to update county IT security policies; an administrative-services agreement with Independent Health for the county’s self-funded health plan; preliminary engineering work for sewer-study priority projects; snow and ice control agreements; bridge-project support and inspection; court-facility cleaning and minor repairs; and snowmobile-trail development and maintenance. The transcript provides no contract amounts for these actions.

The board approved the purchase of the former Belmont School property at 34 South Street from the Belmont Betterment Association, along with a budget modification from contingency; the vote was 12 in favor and 2 opposed, with one member absent. Other grant, contract, and agreement resolutions were approved, generally by unanimous roll call. The board also set a public hearing on a proposed local law to increase compensation for certain county officers. Members noted that the November 12 committee-of-the-whole meeting was expected to focus on the tentative county budget, which was due to be filed the following day. The audit was approved, reporting $1,891,461.22 in general-fund totals and $1,384,955.55 in payroll and taxes.

**Jurisdictions:** sled
**Industries:** Construction & Infrastructure, Information Technology
**Topics:** Physical Infrastructure, Grants & Funding
**Published:** October 28, 2026

### Sources
- [Legislative Board Meeting - October 28, 2026](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR2V0ZBoazI) - Allegany County New York Government