Town Clerk

Kathryn A. Connolly
Town Clerk

Michelle Wessels
Deputy Town Clerk

2 Douglas Street
Wynantskill, NY 12198
T 518-283-4306
F 518-283-7621
twnclerk@townofng.com

Duties of Town Clerk

The Town Clerk is the:

• Registrar of Vital Statistics: As Registrar of Vital Records, the Town Clerk is responsible for keeping a permanent record of all births and deaths that occur within the boundaries of the Town, as well as all marriage licenses that are applied for at our office. Birth, death and marriage records are not open to the public for inspection. For genealogical searches, death and marriage records become available fifty (50) years after the date of issuance. Birth records become available after seventy-five (75) years. Please contact the Town Clerk's office for more detailed information.

• Filing Officer for the Town: All local laws, oaths of office, affidavits of publication, resignations, petitions, annual budgets, fiscal reports, assessment rolls, bonds, and other pertinent town documents are filed in the Town Clerk's Office.

• Permit Issuing Agent: Issues licenses and permits for marriages, dogs, conservation (hunting and fishing), duck stamps, bingo, games-of-chance licenses, handicapped parking, peddling and soliciting, trailers, and street-openings (excavation). Under the New York State Education Law, the Clerk's Office can issue Certificates of Residency to individuals who will be attending Hudson Valley Community College.

• Recording Secretary to the Town Board: The Town Clerk attends all Town Board meetings excluding Attorney/Client discussion and authors the minutes, which are retained permanently for legal and historic purposes. The official Sign Board for the Town is maintained by the Town Clerk's Office and all identified meeting dates and affidavits of publication are posted on the Board as prescribed by law.

• Election Coordinator: The Town Clerk oversees all special, primary and general elections in the Town. In addition, the Town Clerk is responsible for the purchase, maintenance and storage of the voting machines and drawing of election district boundaries for Town Board approval. We work in conjunction with the Rensselaer County Board of Elections to register new voters and assist the Town's active enrollees. Voter registration forms may be downloaded in English or en Español.

• Cash Control Officer: The Town Clerk is responsible for the collection and disbursement of funds to the state, county and local fiscal officers of all fees collected.

Other Services:

The Town Clerk's Office also sells Zoning Maps, Zoning Books, Subdivision Books, and Town Maps.

The Town Clerk's Office also performs many other duties for the town departments, (i.e. orders general office supplies, submits press releases for the Youth and Recreation department, issues applications for registrants of the Youth and Recreation Summer Program, etc.).

If you have a general question or are in doubt as to which department you may need, please call the Town Clerk's Office. We are here to assist you.