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Spending Goes Up 6 Percent In City’s Preliminary Budget ONEONTA – A preliminary 2016 City of Oneonta budget, unveiled this evening, calls for a 6 percent spending increase and an increase of $34,000 in property tax revenues. Acting City Manager Meg Hungerford outlined the spending package at a special Common Council meeting. Higher spending is driven by “wage increases based on department requests, contractual obligations, equipment purchases and health insurance increases,” said Hungerford. “Taxes would be increased within the tax cap…
COUNTY WORKERS APPROVE CONTRACT Lindberg: Move May Add $1M To Budget Gap COOPERSTOWN – The rank and file of Otsego County’s largest labor union today ratified a tentative contract, according to CSEA communications specialist Mark Kotzin. He said 117 of employees in the bargaining unit voted yes, 70 voted no. The tentative contract now goes to the county Board of Representatives for final approval. According to Rep. Don Lindberg, R-Worcester, if the county board signs off on the agreement, it will add…
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IN MEMORIAM: Laura Margaret Kane, 88; Ran Hartwick Restaurant, On Town Board MOUNT VISION – Laura Margaret Kane, 88, of Mount Vision, former proprietor of Laura’s Restaurant in Hartwick and a past Town Board member, passed away early Sunday morning, Oct. 18, 2015, at Focus Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Otsego. She was born June 27, 1927, in Barneveld, a daughter of John and Mary Irene (Barnes) Rowlands. At age 5, she and her family moved to Edmeston, where she…
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LAYOFFS POSSIBLE TO BALANCE BUDGET Lindberg Sees 50, Maybe 80; Others See Less COOPERSTOWN – Perhaps 50 county employees, perhaps as many as 80, will have to be laid off to balance this year’s budget, county Budget Review Committee chair Don Lindberg, R-Worcester, said today. “But I can’t see this board doing it,” he said. While not foreseeing cuts to the extent Lindberg does, both county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and Treasurer Dan Crowell acknowledged layoffs as a possibility.…
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IN MEMORIAM: Bridget Macaluso, 94; Has Survivors In Cooperstown, Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – Mrs. Bridget M. Macaluso, 94, of Cooperstown, passed away peacefully Friday morning, Oct. 16, 2015, at Chestnut Park Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Oneonta. Born Aug. 11, 1921, in Hoboken, N.J., on a tugboat, she was the daughter of Patrick and Rita (Patterson) Bracken. She met her husband Joseph Robert (Bob) Macaluso in the Navy and married him Feb. 26, 1949, at the Church of St. Raymond in…