County Clarifies Emergency Declaration
By CASPAR EWIG
OTSEGO COUNTY
What we’ve got here,” said the jail warden in “Cool Hand Luke,” “is failure to communicate.” According to Steve Wilson, Otsego County administrator, this comment aptly describes the present state of affairs resulting in the county’s issuance of the State of Emergency Declaration and Emergency Order No. 1 with regard to housing migrants in Otsego County.
“Our actions were a response to the extremely chaotic situation created by the way New York City was handling the migrant crisis,” Wilson added. “No one reached out to us and gave us any indication of what we might be faced with.”
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