Town of Jay Planning Board Meeting
The Town of Jay Planning Board’s next meeting is Wednesday, October 11th at 6pm at the Town of Jay Community Center. All are welcome to join in person or you can use the following link to join from home. The agenda is posted below. https://meet.goto.com/160692861
Supervisor’s Weekly Update
The 2024 Tentative Budget has been submitted to the Town Clerk and the Town of Jay Town Board to review prior to budget workshops which will happen the week of October 16th. There are several assumptions made to prepare the Tentative Budget since we did not have concrete numbers yet for some of our biggest expenditures like Liability Insurance and Health Insurance. I will be posting the dates for the [...]
Supervisor’s Weekly Update
This past week I was invited to the Ausable River Association Shindig at AuSable Brewing Company. I learned a lot from Guest Speaker Rich Starr who talked about the river restoration work that has been done in the Adirondacks and most notably the work in the Town of Jay. I was able to get a tour of the location #2 which is in the construction phase right now in Upper [...]
Supervisor’s Weekly Update
This past week was our monthly board meeting. During that meeting, Councilman Adam Coolidge gave a report for the Ambulance Committee. This report laid out the issues that have been discussed during meetings with the AuSable Forks Volunteer Ambulance Service, the Town of Black Brook, and the Town of Jay. As discussed in this report, we feel the level of service we receive from the AFVAS is second to none. [...]
Update on Contract/Budget Negotiations with Au Sable Forks Volunteer Ambulance Service
The owns of Jay and Black Brook have jointly contracted with the Au Sable Forks Volunteer Ambulance Service (AFVAS) for decades and shared the expenses roughly 2/3 for Town of Jay and 1/3 for Town of Black Brook. This number has been based on assessed property values in the different towns but has also been similar to actual call volumes in the towns. While call volumes seem to have remained [...]
