GENESEE COUNTY LEGISLATURE
3-year contract with sheriff’s employees wins approval
BATAVIA — The Genesee County Legislature approved a three-year contract Wednesday with the Sheriff’s Employee Association that includes 2 percent annual raises and a delay clause that will save county taxpayers about $40,000.
The 55-member union, which represents dispatchers, corrections officers and jail staff, has already approved the pact, which is retroactive to Jan. 1.
The first year of the contract will cost the county about $54,000. Half of next year’s raises will be deferred until 2011.
The contract includes other minor adjustments.
The legislators also approved an engineering consultant agreement with Clark Patterson Lee of Rochester for $16,500.
The county also expects to receive $680,000 in federal economic stimulus funds to repave 1.6 miles of Hawley Drive and a .75-mile stretch of the Batavia-Stafford Townline Road. Both are heavily traveled access routes to Genesee Community College. The repaving and other work would be done this summer ahead of the college’s fall semester.
In other business, legislators:
• Approved a $100,000 increase in the Sheriff’s Office communications budget for the purchase of radios and pagers for the four agencies. These include the city and Le Roy police departments, the Sheriff’s Office and state police, all of which use the county’s radio system.
• Approved a modified management contract with Home Care of Rochester, which in mid-March took over the county nursing home’s home-care program for three years at $15,000 per month. The county facility shed some of its operations because of annual losses.
• Granted three requests to use county property for special events. The Batavia Rotary Club will hold its annual fly-in breakfast June 21 at the county airport. That same day, the Court Appointed Special Advocates will hold a Touch a Tractor event. Crossroads House will hold a penny carnival fundraiser July 12 at the De- Witt Recreation Area.
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