Ulster County Comptroller, March Gallagher, who was unopposed, won re-election to serve her first full four-year term as Ulster County Comptroller. Gallagher was first elected to the position in 2019 when she ran to fill a vacancy. Mid Hudson News | 11/3/21
Ulster County: Comptroller and clerk re-elected; unopposed Family Court candidate wins
County Comptroller March Gallagher garnered 28,342 votes in her bid for a full four-year term as the county’s fiscal watchdog. Gallagher first was elected in November 2019 to complete the term of Elliott Auerbach, who resigned as county comptroller midway through a term to take a job in the office of state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. … Read More
Ulster IDA gets comptroller’s suggestions for housing policy
Gallagher, who was a board member from 2006-08 and its administrator from 2011-13, said that recent public controversy over the Kingstonian tax breaks showed a need for getting public input into the agency policy. She added that an agency policy change that accommodated Kingstonian developers may have been “policy clean up” but damaged trust in … Read More
Ulster County emergency housing is facing an emergency
“Ulster County is experiencing a housing crisis,” in particular how it impacts those who are living in emergency shelters, County Comptroller March Gallagher said in a report she released on Tuesday. Mid Hudson News | 10/13/2021
Judge’s ruling doesn’t end Ulster County RRA’s refusal to provide subpoenaed records
Gallagher has said the audit will allow her to determine whether the agency has met the terms of grants awarded to it and followed contractual obligations, and also whether it has played favorites when selling dirt that results from the composting of food waste. Daily Freeman | 10/4/21
Supreme Court upholds county comptroller’s audit authority over UCRRA
“The Ulster County Charter unequivocally deputizes the comptroller’s office as the chief auditing officer to undergo this function,” the court decision stated. “This dispels several semantic arguments advanced by petitioners, namely, that the county is a separate entity than the comptroller, as the vendor agreement allows for any other persons duly authorized by the county, … Read More
Ulster County comptroller has audit authority over RRA, judge rules
Gallagher has said the records will allow her to determine whether the agency has met the terms of grants awarded to it and followed contractual obligations, and also whether it has played favorites when selling dirt that results from the composting of food waste. Daily Freeman | 10/1/21
Ulster County comptroller, clerk, Family Court judge candidate running unopposed
A Rosendale resident, Gallagher is a lawyer a former president and chief executive officer of Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley, a position she left to run for comptroller two years ago. She previously was chief strategy officer for Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress, deputy planning director and director of business services for Ulster County, … Read More
Gallagher hints at surplus as sales tax pours in
Ulster County Comptroller March Gallagher has released the 2021 Second Quarter Financial Report. Second-quarter financials show that the County continues to enjoy historic growth rates in sales and occupancy tax collections while reductions in the county workforce reduced year-to-date expenditures. 2021 Second Quarter Financial Report Mid Hudson News | 9/16/21
Ulster County sales tax growth exceeds expectations, comptroller report shows
Ulster County continued to enjoy historic growth rates in sales and occupancy tax collections in the second quarter of the year while reductions in the county workforce reduced year-to-date expenditures, a report by Comptroller March Gallagher shows. 2021 Second Quarter Financial Report The Daily Freeman | 9/16/21