EDITORIAL On County Manager, Now Hard Work Begins By the time you read this, it’s very likely Otsego County will have created a job of county administrator, joining all but a handful of counties around New York State. Heading into the Wednesday, Dec. 4, monthly meeting of the county Board of Representatives, the momentum to professionalize government was clear. Six of the seven Democrats were firmly in favor, plus two Republican leaders – chairman David Bliss and Schenevus’ Peter Oberacker.…
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THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Dec. 5-6, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE County Manager Decision Expected Today Debate Renewed On Funding Animal Shelter Organizers Cancel 2020 Polar Bear Jump Santa Arrives At Renovated Pioneer Park Rare Woman Plow Driver Fights Ezekiel Common Council OKs $20 Million Budget EDITORIALS On County Manager, Now Hard Work Begins Kennedy, Bliss, Committee Deserve Praise COLUMNS SEWARD: Reforms May Be Costly, Dangerous MATHISEN: Memoir Takes Us To 911 Bombing…
BULLETIN COUNTY MANAGER POSITION CREATED 11 Vote Aye; 2 Nays; One Absence COOPERSTOWN – At 12:58 p.m. today, the Otsego County Board of Representatives created the position of county administrator. Eleven voted aye. Nays were two Republicans, former county board chairman Kathy Clark of Otsego and veteran board member Keith McCarty, East Springfield. The absence was Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, who has been outspoken against the position. But the 11 ayes included a coalition of Republicans, Democrats and the board’s one…
Out of Africa County County’s 2020 Budget Under Tax Cap, Over $120M By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The 2020 tentative Otsego County budget is done, by way of Uganda, Burundi and Tanganyika. It is under New York State’s tax cap, and Otsego County continues to be “one of the lowest taxed counties in the state,” County Treasurer (and Sgt.) Allen Ruffles reported Monday, Nov. 18, in a Zoom-enabled videoconference from his quarters in Djibouti, where he…
HEARING, VOTE DUE DEC. 4 County-Manager Plan Draws Few To Briefing The League of Women Voters’ moderator, above, greets attendees at this evening’s informational meeting on hiring a county manager, underway at this hour in Courtroom #1 at the county courthouse in Cooperstown. A half-dozen members of the public attended, including Bill Waller, left, and Sydney Waller (not related), at right. In the background are Village Trustee Jim Dean and Marie Ajello, Toddsville. Inset, county Rep. Meg Kennedy, who chairs…
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Energetic Case Made For County Manager Only 10 At Briefing In Oneonta City Hall; Second Session Tuesday In Cooperstown “I don’t think (county government) is run as effectively as the people who elect us should demand it should be,” county Rep. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, inset at right, told the 10 people who attended an informational session this evening in Oneonta City Hall on the county Board of Representatives’ plan to create a $150,000 county manager job to run the $116…
INFORMATIONAL MEETING 11/14 County Manager Decision Is Near The first of two informational meetings on creating a county manager for Otsego County is at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, at Oneonta City Hall. County Rep. Meg Kennedy, C-Hartwick, who chairs the county board’s Administration Committee, announced the second will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the Otsego County Courthouse in Cooperstown. A public hearing on the creation of a county manager position was set for 10 a.m. Wednesday,…
2 Informational Meetings Set On County Manager One In Oneonta, Second In Cooperstown The first of two informational meetings on creating a county manager for Otsego County is at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, at Oneonta City Hall, county Rep. Meg Kennedy, C-Hartwick, who chairs the county board’s Administration Committee, announced today. The second will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the Otsego County Courthouse in Cooperstown. The informational meetings will set the stage for the official public…
County-Manager Public Hearing Set For Dec. 4 2 Informational Sessions Eyed At Oneonta, County Courthouse By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN — After the job description was expanded to widen the field of applicants, county board Chair David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Middlefield, today set a public hearing on creating a county-manager position for 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4. The decision was an initiative by the board’s Administration Committee, chaired by county Rep. Meg Kennedy, R-Mount Vision, that has…
