East Greenbush Library Budget Passes

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Dave Lucas

Published September 16, 2020 at 10:35 AM EDT

Voters in East Greenbush approved the public library budget and elected two trustees Tuesday.

By a 6 to 1 margin, voters in East Greenbush passed a 2021 public library budget of $2.067 million, a 3.2 percent decrease from the current budget.

Jill Dugas Hughes is director of the East Greenbush Community Library. “It's a total income loss of $68,967. Which is essentially going to result in a flat library tax for the community. So the budget increase to the taxpayers is $1000."

Camille Engel and Lewis Dubuque won trustee positions with five-year terms from a field of four candidates.

Trustees are community members elected to provide oversight over the library. Engel and Dubuque will begin serving on January 1st.

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Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.

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