Departments

Government provides essential services, fulfills the fundamental duties of safety, prosperity, and justice, ensures the rights of each human and protects so that citizens, businesses, and organizations have the ability the pursue happiness, live a healthy life, and have opportunities. This is accomplished with departments, agencies, affiliates and related services.

Services That Help You

Departments
Agencies

Departments, appointed by the legislative body.

Alcohol & Drug Abuse

Serving residents affected by the abuse of alcohol and drugs.

Budget Office

Allocating County department funds to achieve board plans and priorities.

Buildings & Grounds

Performing maintenance and repair of County buildings and facilities.

CDO Workforce

Providing high-quality job training, employment, labor market information, and income maintenance services through workforce development systems.

Clerk of the Board

Liaison between the board, department heads, outside government officials, and members of the public.

County Attorney

Legal advisor to County board, departments, and agencies.

County Clerk

Recording and maintaining vital records.

Code Enforcement

Enforcing the uniform code of fire prevention and building code as well as energy code.

District Attorney

Reviewing criminal charges and prosecuting criminal cases in court.

Delinquent Taxes

A sub-division of the Treasurer’s Office responsible for the collection of past due taxes.

Economic Development

Promotes County business and industry and the retention of existing businesses by providing the resources that enable and advance the general well-being of the community.

Board of Elections

Establishes public confidence in the electoral process by conducting voter registration and elections with the highest level of professional election standards.

Emergency Services

Saving lives, protecting property and the environment, assisting communities impacted by disasters, and aid recovery during emergencies.

Fiscal Affairs

Providing leadership on fiscal policy, budgeting, accounting, and financial practices & procedures.

County Historian

Preserving the County’s history.

Information Technology

Developing and maintaining effective, reliable and secure information systems to support County departments, agencies and municipalities.

Medical Examiner

Serving County citizens by supporting law enforcement, public defender’s office, district attorney’s office and the the judicial system by providing death investigation, forensic, clinical and environmental analysis, consultation and expert testimony.

Mental Health Services

Providing evaluation, diagnosis and treatment to adults, families, adolescents and children residing in the County.

Motor Vehicle Office

Offering multiple locations to assist with motor vehicle titling and registration.

Office for the Aging

Advocacy, development and delivery of person-centered cost-effective policies, programs and services which support and empower older adults and their families.

Office of
Employment & Training

Providing high-quality job training, employment, labor market information, and income maintenance services through workforce development systems.

Personnel

Human Resources is committed to recruiting, developing, and retaining the workforce. 

Pistol Clerk

A sub-division of the Sheriff’s Office responsible for processing pistol permits.

Planning

Promoting the sound and orderly economic and physical growth of the County and its constituent municipalities.

Probation

Protecting the public interest and safety by reducing the incidence and impact of crime by probationers.

Public Defender

Providing effective representation to ensure the right to counsel for individuals regardless of the ability to retain counsel, and to assist others.

Public Health

Protecting and promoting optimal health for all County residents.

Public Works

Providing the community with quality services, maintenance and improved public infrastructure, roads, bridges, facilities, and maintenance of the County vehicle fleet.

Real Property Tax

Providing property tax administration to property owners and officials in municipalities. Service include data collection, sales verification, appraisal, exemption, assessment, and other related functions.

Records Management

Retrieving files for county personnel, abstractors and the general public. Providing record maintenance and preservation of vital historical and archival records.

Sheriff’s Office

Providing professional, high quality and effective police, correctional and civil services.

Social Services

Providing economic assistance and opportunity as well as social service support to eligible families and individuals.

Solid Waste

Providing residents and businesses with a comprehensive program for managing solid waste in an economically sound and environmentally safe manner.

Stop DWI

Reducing the number of persons killed or injured in alcohol and other drug-related crashes by coordinating local efforts in law enforcement, prosecution, probation, rehabilitation, public information, education and administration.

County Treasurer

Maintaining accurate accounts in compliance with State and Federal regulations in order to guarantee the protection of a true and accurate accounting of taxpayer dollars.

Veteran’s Service Agency

Providing entitlement information and advocacy assistance to military personnel, military veterans, and to their dependents in matters relating to veteran’s law.

Watershed Affairs

Assisting residents, farmers, businesses and communities in meeting water quality restrictions and objectives without loss of economic vitality and growth.

Weights & Measures

Promoting equity in all commercial transactions based on weight or measure.

Youth Bureau

Promoting positive youth development through county-wide integrated planning, funding, monitoring, coordinating and developing youth and family services programs.

Worker’s Comp

Protecting the rights of employees and employers by ensuring the proper delivery of benefits to those who are injured or ill, and by promoting compliance with the law.

Foil Officer

Providing a process for the public request, review, access, and copying of county government records.

Self Insurance Fund

Developing economical and efficient operation of risk liability.

Agencies and Related Services

Alcohol & Drug Abuse Council

The Arc of Delaware County

Catholic Charities of Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie Counties

Chamber of Commerce of Delaware County

Cooperative Extension Association of Delaware County

Delaware County Treatment Court

Delaware Opportunities Inc.

Dispute Resolution Center of Delaware County

Historical Association

Heart of the Catskills Humane Society

NYS Employment Office

Soil & Water Conservation District