Migrants staying in Capital District through end of school year.

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – We told you how the migrants, who were evacuated from the Rotterdam Super 8, were scrambling to find local housing. New York City and Albany County have reached a temporary agreement to house them in Albany, so school-aged children enrolled in the Mohonasen Central School District can finish the school year.

After a midnight evacuation at the Rotterdam Super 8, due to no working sprinkler or fire alarm system, DocGo had been struggling to secure alternative local housing. Up until Thursday.

Earlier this week, asylum seekers told NEWS10 they had been told by DocGo that they needed to be out of the hotel they were staying in by June 1 and were on their own finding housing. Mohonasen Central School District Superintendent Shannon Shine said his staff heard similar concerns and people were afraid their lives would be uprooted, once again.

“Was DocGo going to be able to secure another hotel within the Capital District, specifically within school bus driving range for us, so the students could finish out the year at Mohonasen? And we got the good news yesterday afternoon that that was going to happen,” said Shine.

The New York City Mayor’s Office released a statement: “In the aftermath of a fire safety issue at the Super 8 in Rotterdam, New York City and DocGo staff have worked around the clock to ensure that all families continued to receive shelter in the area through the end of the school year, and thanks to the cooperation of local government partners, all families will be able to do just that."

Albany County Supervisor Dan McCoy said outside of New York City, Albany has the most migrants. He said when they were ordered to vacate at midnight it was not easy to relocate the families.

“So working with Mayor Adams and Chris Ellis from his office, coordinated effort trying to figure out what we were gonna do and we made it work,” said McCoy.

They are working closely with New York City and DocGo to straighten things out, but it hasn't always been that way.

“We can point fingers and play the blame game on a federal level, on a state level, on a county level. Or we can come up with solutions to the problem and lead by example,” said McCoy.

Shine echoed that but said there are lingering concerns since the agreement only guarantees housing until the end of the school year, June 25.

“We are happy about it in the short term, but we do share some of the anxiety that the families and students have,” said Shine. “Because what happens next?”

Again, McCoy said they’ve reached a temporary agreement to house the migrants through the end of the school year and it is likely they will move back to the Rotterdam Super 8 at the end of the school year, as long as its passed inspections.