It’s interesting to have a U.S. Senator from upstate. Support Gillibrand.
Charter changes
There is a single proposition on the ballot, one to approve or deny a package of changes to the Ulster County Charter. It is a package of modest tweaks that tend to clarify issues that were loose ends of the original document, like providing for an acting county executive to be appointed should the current exec be unable to continue, where there was no line of succession before; clarifies the differences between county commissioner of finance and county comptroller; provides terms of office for ethics board members … items like that.
You can find them all here: https://www.ulstercountyny.gov/charterrevision.
The one that was deleted before the package was formalized, however, is what allows us to support the changes. That change would have given the county executive subpoena power, a prerogative that no chief executive, not even the president of the U.S. of A., enjoys. Good move.
