Unatego Prepares Project, But Won’t Rush Consolidation By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Unatego Central School’s proposed $27.6 million capital improvement plan comes at the perfect time to keep the needed school upgrades from raising taxes on district voters, according to Superintendent Dave Richards. “We have an opportunity with our debt where we have some debt falling off, so we can replace it with new debt without any increase of the tax levy,” Richards said. State building aid funding…
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LETTER from ALBERT COLONE ‘Reimagine Upstate’ Will Lead To Single Oneonta A couple of weeks ago, Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal published my opinion piece, once again trying to promote the idea of consolidating the city and town of Oneonta. I submitted it to try and generate some meaningful debate on the issue. Surprisingly, the only subsequent reference I’ve seen was an unsigned comment in another paper. How can this be? Whoever submitted that comment, thank you for the…
allotsego.com EDITORIAL Don’t Fear The Facts At 7 p.m. this evening, the Oneonta Town Board will be asked to approve spending $12,500, which will enable the release of a $50,000 state grant to study whether consolidation of the town and city into a single “Greater Oneonta” makes sense. The study, to be conducted by the Center for Governmental Research, Rochester, would study legislative changes made in 2012 to encourage municipalities to merge when it makes sense to do so. It…
Common Council Backs Merger Study; Town Board Asked To Do So Tonight …
Common Council To Consider Billboard Ban, Merger Study ONEONTA – Two controversies – unhappiness over internally illuminated billboards and a proposed joint town-city study of consolidation – will be addressed when Common Council meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday. One motion, proposed by Council member Mike Lynch, calls for a one-year moratorium on the billboards. DC Marketing has erected two along I-88, one near the Lettis Highway exit, the other next to the Hampton Inn. Other entities are now considering additional…
Oneonta Town, City Councils To Look Into Collaborations ONEONTA – The Oneonta Town Board and Oneonta Common Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15, to consider a comprehensive two-municipality town-sewer master plan, GO-EDC, the economic-development facilitation group, announced this afternoon. The joint meeting will also review the recommendations in the 2008 Center for Government Research study, “Opportunities to Use Shared Services & Consolidation Strategies to Improve Efficiency, Effectiveness and Equity in Local Government,” which used Greater Oneonta as…