Cayuga County committee moves to hire emergency services director

It’s not often that resolutions are met with applause or exclamations of “hallelujah” and “finally,” but that’s what happened Tuesday when a Cayuga County Legislature committee voted to approve hiring a new director for the county’s Emergency Management Office.

The Legislature’s Ways and Means committee voted in favoring of hiring a new Director of Emergency Management Services, which leads the EMO. If approved by the full Legislature on Tuesday, it could bring an end to a turbulent period for the office, which has been without full-time staff since the start of the year.