March 18th Town Board Meeting

The meeting highlight was the discussion concerning the best approach for choosing our next police chief. Mark Grimm felt an open discussion on what direction the Guilderland police department should take and what qualities we most seek in a new chief was warranted. Mr. Grimm said the following qualities would be among his top priorities for the next chief:

- Leadership --- the ability to bring officers together to maximize productivity and morale

- Tech Savvy --- embracing technology to take advantages of the latest breakthroughs to reduce crime

- Quantification --- having someone who places emphasis on tracking results to so we can evaluate how well we are doing and shift our strategically shift resources into the highest priority areas.

There was also a discussion on the feasibility of closed captioning for board meetings. The decision to solicit input from residents to see how much need there is in the Town for such an endeavor was unanimously agreed to.

March 4th Town Board Meeting

Supervisor Runion abruptly ended the Town Board meeting before the agenda items were addressed. This unprecedented move to end the meeting unfortunately did nothing to resolve the disagreements among Board members.