Darla Youngs Leaving OCCA Helm To Accept New Job In Binghamton

Darla Youngs Leaving OCCA Helm

To Accept New Job In Binghamton

SPRINGFIELD – Darla Youngs, veteran executive director of the OCCA, the Otsego County Conservation Association, is resigning in the next month to join Tier Information & Enterprise Resources in Binghamton.

Jeff O’Handley, OCCA program director since July 2013, will serve as acting executive director, effective May 16.

TIER is the non-profit arm of the Southern Tier East Regional Planning Development Board, which provides services to regional planning and economic-development agencies in Otsego and seven other counties: Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Schoharie, Tioga and Tompkins.

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