from the ENERGY TASK FORCE Energy Task Force Goal: To Avoid Us Vs. Them To the Editor: Your June 20-21 editorial on the Otsego County Energy Taskforce ends with the sentence: “We’re all in this together.” We on the Taskforce Leadership Committee couldn’t agree more. But the editorial’s main assertion that the business community has been shut out of the process is not based on fact and includes inaccuracies and unhelpful hypotheticals that need to be corrected. Chief among these…
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Otsego Chamber Policy Declares Independence Regarding Energy Issues Renewables Supported, But Decompressor, Too By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Otsego County businesspeople support all energy options – renewables, yes, but also the controversial decompressor station proposed for West Oneonta – states a county Chamber of Commerce “Energy & Infrastructure Policy” released in the past few days. The statement came bottom-up from the Oneonta-based organization’s countywide membership, said Chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan, who also chairs the Economic…
Energy Taskforce Sets Out Ambitious Plan in 1st Meeting by JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com WEST ONEONTA – In the first convening of the 38-member Otsego County Energy Taskforce Town Hall Wednesday evening, County Board Rep. Meg Kennedy, a founder of the group, announced its end goal: an ambitious plan “that will address the current and future energy needs of Otsego County” by October 2020. Calling the plan’s timeline “ambitious,” Kennedy said the Taskforce aimed to complete a draft of the…
Koutnik Votes ‘No’ On ‘Climate Pledge’ Draft As Too Weak But SWECC Committee, 4-1, Forwards Compromise Document To Full Board By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Saying the language “was softened,” County board Vice Chair Gary Koutnik, D-Oneonta, today voted against sending a “Climate Smart Community Pledge” resolution, as revised, to the full board for action March 6. However, his colleagues on the Solid Waste & Environmental Concerns Committee nonetheless agreed to forward the adjusted resolution, 4-1, for…
County IGA Committee Forms ‘Leadership Team’ To Explore Energy Future By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A “leadership team” of five is being formed to study Otsego County’s energy future, Intergovernmental Committee chair Meg Kennedy told her colleagues at their monthly meeting this morning. Details were not immediately available, but the team includes representation from the county board, the OCCA (Otsego County Conservation Association), and the city and town of Oneonta.…
Meg Kennedy First Otsego County Rep On NYSAC Board COOPERSTOWN – County Rep. Meg Kennedy is making history. It surfaced at today’s county Board of Representative meeting that the second-term legislator has been invited and agreed to join the board of directors of NYSAC, the influential New York State Association of Counties. What’s more, she is the first representative from Otsego County ever to be so honored.…
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COUNTY BOARD REORGANIZES Bliss: Appointments Aim At ‘Continuity’ Meg Kennedy Emerges With New Status As Chairman Of Both Administration, IGA By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – She went into today’s reorganizational meeting of the Otsego County Board of Representatives already with the greatest clout under the weighted voting system. But Meg Kennedy’s rising stature was quickly affirmed. She was nominated and elected temporary chair of the reorganizational meeting, presiding over the transition of the chairmanship from Kathy…
EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENTS Board Chair Clark Has Earned Defeat 3 Key Allies Let County Down, Too Editor’s Note: This is the editorial opinion of www.AllOTSEGO.com, Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal. Letters to the editor on political topics received after 10 a.m. Tuesday will appear on www.AllOTSEGO.com; email letters to info@allotsego.com. Polls will be open 6 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7. The first vow in physicians’ Hippocratic Oath is, “Do no harm.” It’s not a bad standard to apply across the board,…
MEG KENNEDY COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 5, (HARTWICK, MILFORD, NEW LISBON) COMMUNITY OF RESIDENCE: Hartwick EDUCATION: B.S. Cornell University PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 24 years experience in family owned and operated horticultural business in Hartwick COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: serve on governing bodies of 2 farmers markets 2008 – present, serve on Town of Hartwick Planning Board 2010- present, member of St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Parish. FAMILY: 11 siblings, many in-laws, numerous nieces and nephews, parents PHILOSOPHY OF GOVERNMENT: Government…