“Thanks to strong contract language negotiated by the Kingston NewsGuild the Daily Freeman will continue to have an office presence in Kingston,” Doxsey said. The Freeman’s staff will move to a new location in Kingston according to Patricia Doxsey, a longtime reporter at the paper and president of the Kingston NewsGuild Local 31180 TNG-CWA union, which represents reporters, copy editors, sales reps, sales reps and circulation and buildings and grounds employees. “We’ll be having the New York State Board of Elections count absentee ballots before Election Day and this will allow us to lock up ballots facilitating early voting out in the field,” Dittus said. ![]() “Having a site large enough for us to work together allows us to work on stress points before and after elections.” “It’s very difficult to manage staff members who don’t see every day,” she said. The new location will make things much more efficient for the agency, she said. ![]() The move was necessitated by the pending demolition of the former Ulster County Jail to make way for a new affordable housing complex by the end of this year, she said The Board of Elections signed a five-year lease with Higginsville Hay LLC, the Freeman building’s owner. The board is slated to start moving voting equipment after the November elections with clerical staff moving in by the start of 2022. The board’s 12-person staff is currently split across a public-facing office at 334 Wall Street and a non-public space at the Golden Hill complex that has two staffers and houses voting systems, pole site equipment, handicapped accessibility materials, signage and even the stan like those found in a bank-teller line that are used at the polling sites. Staff from the paper will move to another location in Kingston.Ĭounty Democratic Election Commissioner Ashley Dittus said the move will bring together all the agency’s staff and functions in one location in the portion of the building that presently holds the paper’s newsroom. currently occupied by the Daily Freeman newspaper by 2022. The Ulster County Board of Elections will move into a new headquarters at 79 Hurley Ave.
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