Guilderland

Christine Govin, Guilderland Teaching Assistants

“Our hope would be to help them,” Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber said of the school district, calling it “a bit ironic” that the town would take on the task of preserving school district history.

Originally, Laviano had wanted to convert just the front half of the lot to Local Business, and build two houses in back, but he re-did the application to rezone the entire lot.

The $55 million center would be located on 8.36 acres in the Transit Oriented Development district at 4 Crossgates Mall Road, according to the application for a special-use permit filed with the town by Columbia Development Companies.

On Friday, Dec. 15, the Guilderland girls’ wrestling team took part in the first-ever all female wrestling tournament at Niskayuna High School. Guilderland finished tenth with 39 points.

Guilderland will strive to maintain an unrestricted fund balance of not less than 15 percent and not more than 35 percent of budgeted appropriations in each of the general, highway, water and sewer funds, the policy says.

Last month, the quasi-judicial zoning board in Guilderland issued an interpretation that clearly needs a legislative reaction. The new category of short-term rentals booked online is not specifically addressed in the Guilderland code and it needs to be.

Projects could come along that would violate “guidelines that we want to put in place,” said Councilwoman Christine Napierski. “So that’s why a moratorium is necessary, to say, ‘Hold it; wait a minute. This is a project that may not be in compliance with our future vision of our town.’”

Town board members held firm on the need for Loren Pruskowski to allow a town trail on his family’s property, linking eastern and western Guilderland, if he wanted the rezone to make his proposed solar facility possible.

Pharmacist Zarina Jalal had filed ethics complaints regarding Albany County’s contract with Genoa Healthcare, which operates a pharmacy at the Department of Mental Health building in the city of Albany, alleging that the county did not follow its own requests-for-proposal process, and helped a former county official’s daughter get the head pharmacist job at the location.

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