New Purchasing System Fails To Deliver Road Salt In Time – All Otsego

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COUNTY REPS MEET ON MATTER

New Purchasing System Fails

To Deliver Road Salt In Time

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

county-logoCOOPERSTOWN – After town garages failed to get road-salt orders in time for the Thanksgiving Weekend snowstorms, the county Board of Representatives is meeting as a "committee of the whole" at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday to ensure its new purchasing agreement with Onondaga County is working satisfactorily.

"When you start something new, there are always a couple of glitches," said county Rep. Peter Oberacker, R-Maryland, who chairs the county board's Public Works Committee.

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