Can County Board Chair Name Committee Chairs? Or Must Committees Pick Own Leadership? By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As the 2017 committees of the county Board of Representatives began meeting this week, a wrinkle surfaced. The question: Does county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego – or any county board chair – have the authority to appoint committee chairs, as has been her practice and that of her predecessors? Just in case, members of at least one and…
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Clark Removes Carson From Key Committees COOPERSTOWN – Elections DO have consequences. County Rep. Len Carson, R-Oneonta, who fell short in his attempt yesterday to replace Kathy Clark, R-Otego, as chair of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, lost his committee chairmanship and was removed from the board’s two key committees. As board chair, Clark appoints the committees at the county board’s annual reorganization meeting.…
CLARK RULES! (AT LEAST IN ’17) Chair Turns Back Challenge, But Colleagues Are Divided By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Four-year Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, was elected to another year on the helm of the county Board of Representatives, but it was ugly. She ended up with 3,341 weighted votes, comfortably above the 3,115 majority, but hardly a landslide. Three of the eight Republicans on the board didn’t vote for her: her challenger, Len Carson, Oneonta, voted nay, and…
FURIOUS LOBBYING FOR CHAIRMANSHIP Some Say Rep. Powers Shifts To Clark; Others, Outcome Still Too Close To Call By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Furious lobbying is underway this evening as support for the next chair of the Otsego County Board of Representatives sea-saws between incumbent Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and Len Carson, R-Oneonta. Word was circulating that county Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, who mounted an unsuccessful challenge to Clark last year, had just this evening agreed to…
After Debate, Chair’s Appointment Approved But Changes Coming, Marietta Predicts By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – There was lively debate in open session about the process of choosing new Otsego Now board members. But, after a 20-minute executive session called by board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, county reps at today’s special meeting voted unanimously to confirm Cheryl Robinson, the NYCM vice president, to the board of the economic-development agency. She will succeed the Richfield Springs architect, Jim…
AllOTSEGO.com EDITORIAL Block Clark, Delay Making Otsego Now Appointments You may remember a year ago, when Kathy Clark, R-Otego, Otsego County Board of Representatives’ chair, forced through the appointment of a favorite, Rick Hulse, who had been defeated for election a couple of months before, to the Otsego Now board of directors. She forced party discipline on newly elected Republicans – Meg Kennedy, David Bliss, Len Carson, Meg Kennedy, Peter Oberacker and Dan Wilber – who bristled at being told…
COUNTY REPS MEET ON MATTER New Purchasing System Fails To Deliver Road Salt In Time By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – 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,”…
GOP Majority Backs Chair’s IDA Nominee Otsego Now Opponent Rick Hulse Will Serve On Otsego Now Board COOPERSTOWN – Rick Hulse, who had been at odds with the Otsego Now board during his one term as a county board representative, today was appointed by the county board to represent it on the Otsego Now board. “I have serious concern about oversight they have been receiving in recent years,” said county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, who championed Hulse’s appointment. The…
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Frazier, Stammel Contacted By Powers In Bid For Chair COOPERSTOWN – Two more county representatives said they have been contacted by Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, seeking their support in his bid to bump Kathy Clark, R-Otego, from the chairmanship of the Otsego County Board of Representatives. The board’s vice chair, Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, said he received an e-mail from Powers, but advised him he will be supporting Clark. Incoming county Rep. Andrew Stammel, D-Town of Oneonta, said he had heard from…