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KINGSTON, N.Y. — Included in the new contract between the county and its largest employee labor union is a new policy governing the use of take-home vehicles by the county’s Department of Public Works employees.

The agreement allows those employees who currently have a take-home vehicle to keep them — provided they remain in a position in which a take-home vehicle is assigned. But it gives the county “sole discretion” over the future assignment of such vehicles.

Legislator Joseph Maloney, who in 2023 first raised the issue of take-home vehicles, called the policy a “back-door policy” that eliminates the ability for legislators to have oversight over employee vehicle use.

“It eliminates the possibility for any legislator to ever be able to

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