Orleans County Legislature: Dwyer Agreements, the Veterans Service Officer Post, Operation Green Light and the Medal of Honor Wall

The board. The Orleans County Legislature - Chairman Lynne Johnson, with Legislators Allport, Draper, Eick, Fitzak, Miller and Morgan, Clerk Lisa Stenshorn - meets monthly at 14016 Route 31 West, Albion, the Veterans Service Agency Director often giving the invocation. The Agendas & Resolutions page posts the meeting and standing-committee minutes; those for January 2025 through October 27, 2026 were read whole. The veteran items: - Dwyer Peer to Peer money, accepted as a pass-through from the Mental Health budget to the Veterans Services budget (line 01.6510.3711): $11,115 (Resolution No. 101-225, February 20, 2025), $14,038 (No. 202-425 and No. 213-425, April 22, 2025), $14,768 (No. 376-825, August 19, 2025), $14,403 (No. 474-1025, October 28, 2025) and $14,403 (No. 82-226, February 17, 2026). - Dwyer agreements, county cost $0: Shelridge Country Club, Medina, for the August 18, 2025 veterans golf outing, $9,000 (No. 344-725); American Legion Sheret Post #35, Albion, for the September 27, 2025 fall BBQ, $6,950 (No. 386-825); the Red Star Foundation for a November 8, 2025 Veterans Day event in Albion, $6,096 (No. 424-925); White Birch Golf Course and Restaurant, Lyndonville, for the December 16, 2025 holiday banquet, $6,842.50 (No. 516-1125); and WNYHeroes Inc., Buffalo, "providing services and resources to Veterans and their families in Orleans County", April 1 through December 31, 2026, not to exceed $43,209 (May 26, 2026). - Staffing: the vacant part-time clerk filled from February 28, 2025 (No. 109-225); then a part-time Veterans Service Officer at Grade 13 created and filled from January 1, 2026, with the clerk post abolished (No. 588-1225, December 16, 2025). - Operation Green Light: on October 28, 2025 the board approved lighting "the Courthouse Dome green from November 4-11, 2025" and adopted Resolution No. 490-1025; on October 27, 2026 it adopted Resolution No. 451-1026 for November 4-11, 2026, 6-0. - The Medal of Honor Wall: the Administration & Finance committee's 2025 minutes record that "Nick Mroz, Veterans has take over the project", the wall "almost done" in April, and the "Wall dedication" set for the May 27, 2025 Legislature meeting. - January 28, 2025: Resolution No. 40-125 rescinded the 2024 request to name Route 98 for U.S. Army SPC. Jason Johnston, since "the Route 98 corridor in Orleans County is presently named as the Veterans Memorial Highway", and the next resolution asked the State to name the Route 31A corridor between Powerline Road and Route 98 in his memory - SPC. Johnston "lost his life in combat during the Afghanistan War on Terror on December 26, 2009". - The new 100% permanent and total veterans exemption: discussed in committee in June and August 2026 and "tabled for further discussion" in October 2026. No veteran benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed in the window; the record is the agency's staffing, its State-funded peer programme and the county's recognitions.