The Charter Review Committee of the Oneonta Common Council met on Thursday, July 20 to discuss potential changes to the city’s governing document. Chairman Scott Harrington (R-6th Ward) and members Len Carson (R-5) and Kaytee Lipari Shue (D-4) met with City Attorney David Merzig to discuss a potential amendment that would allow a majority of the Common Council to remove members of boards and commissions.…
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COMMON COUNCIL REPORT Oneonta Common Council Approves Revised Charter ONEONTA – Six months after Mayor Gary Herzig appointed an ad hoc committee to revise the Oneonta City Charter, Common Council unanimously approved the local law amending the revised charter as presented. “I feel we did a good job of bringing this to a good place,” said Council Member Melissa Nicosia, Second Ward, a member of Mayor Gary Herzig’s ad hoc charter review committee. “Complains we heard were listened to, and…