Koutnik Votes No On Climate Pledge, Saying It’s Too Weak – All Otsego

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Koutnik Votes 'No'

On 'Climate Pledge'

Draft As Too Weak

But SWECC Committee, 4-1, Forwards

Compromise Document To Full Board

The Solid Waste & Environmental Concerns Committee of the county Board of Representatives discusses on a "Climate Smart Community Pledge" resolution. County Reps. Keith McCarty, Meg Kennedy and Gary Koutnik, listen to County Planning Director Karen Sullivan.  At right is county Rep. Danny Lapin (Jennifer Hill/AllOTSEGO.com)

By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

ONEONTA – Saying the language "was softened," County board Vice Chair Gary Koutnik, D-Oneonta, today voted against sending a "Climate Smart Community Pledge" resolution, as revised, to the full board for action March 6.

However, his colleagues on the Solid Waste & Environmental Concerns Committee nonetheless agreed to forward the adjusted resolution, 4-1, for the full board's consideration.

"The language did reduce the  sense of Climate Change being a crisis," Koutnik said.  "My vote was largely a symbolic one, so it would be in the public record for future generations to see."

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