The Office for the Aging reported program metrics for September and outlined proposals to reallocate youth-bureau funds and increase a proposed 2026 budget line for the Community Assistance Center.

Miss Quigley said staff conducted 16 home visits for assessments and provided application assistance for SNAP, Medicaid and Medicare savings programs. She reported 1,829 volunteer hours (valued at $70,380), 3,129 meals distributed in September (2,531 home-delivered, 598 at congregate sites) and 71 medical transportation rides. The HEAP/heat program received 101 applications in September; staff noted there were no active heat benefits and that emergency public-assistance is available for heat emergencies and must be applied for in person or online via MyBenefits.

On youth-bureau funding, Quigley said Fallsburg Library and Valley Fellowship were unable to fulfill contract terms and recommended reallocating their funds to the Boys & Girls Club and the Catskill Fly Fishing Center. She also described a resolution to rename the Livingston Manor Library to the Livingston Manor Roscoe Library following a merger and to reallocate funds from a library that could not fulfill its contract to Bethel Woods.

Quigley said she intended to request an increase in the 2026 budget line for the Community Assistance Center from $10,000 to $40,000; she described the item as a handout resolution and said system transfer issues delayed its timing.

During public comment, a county resident described a deer-donation program administered through Feeding New York that partners with local processors to supply venison to food pantries and urged hunters to donate. Quigley provided county food-security figures: 12,696 people on food stamps in Sullivan County, representing 6,422 households; of that number 4,912 are children under 18 and 1,949 are seniors over 65. She said only 550 people were affected by the federal work program requirement; the remaining adults were working.

Later in the meeting the Legislature moved to place items 1, 2 and 3 into a block vote. The motion was moved and seconded, voice votes were recorded as "Aye," and the chair declared the grouped items approved. The meeting record did not specify roll-call tallies for each resolution in the audio excerpt available.