SCHENECTADY — Mayor Gary McCarthy signed off on a proposed deal Thursday with the state Office of Court Administration (OCA), signaling an end to a decades-long conflict with the agency over the condition of the city’s courtrooms, and the threat of Schenectady facing financial insolvency.
But there are still lingering questions about the scope of the building project and where the money to pay for it will come from.
The apparent deal comes after a group of influential Democratic state lawmakers stood in solidarity with McCarthy in the City Hall rotunda on Jan. 23 to announce that they had introduced legislation in the Senate and Assembly to ostensibly prevent OCA from withholding or reducing state aid from a municipality for failing to comply with the agency’s mandates…