COUNTY BOARD • DECEMBER 2018 County Reps Double Their Contributions For Health Coverage Frazier Calls It ‘Leading The Way’; Board Members Pay $1,160 More By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In what he termed “leading the way,” county Rep. Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, today proposed doubling county representatives’ contribution to their health insurance from 5 to 10 percent. The other county reps – with Andrew Stammel, D-Town of Oneonta, absent – a voted unanimously to do so, a…
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Low Turnout At Hearing Clears Way For ’19 Budget Due to the snow, perhaps, no member of the public appeared at the public hearing on Otsego County’s 2019 budget, which began at 6 p.m. this evening in Courtroom #1 in Cooperstown. Above, county board Chair David Bliss, left, gave the floor to Clerk of the Board Carol McGovern to officially convene proceedings. The budget keeps the tax increase under the state tax cap, and includes $500,000 in raises for 104…