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unicipal consolidation and shared services will be on the agenda when Dede Scozzafava, New York deputy secretary of state for local government, visits the city, GO-EDC announced. The program, which will include details of Local Government Efficiency grant funding, is 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, May 6, at Foothills. ARCHAEOLOGY BUFFS:
Dr. David Starbuck, author of “Massacre at Fort William Henry” and other books, will speak on the archaeology of the French & Indian War when at the Saturday banquet when the state Archaeological Association annual meeting convenes Friday-Sunday, April 11-13, at the Holiday Inn Southside. Events open to the public.
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“You’re going to wake up May 1, you’re going to put your bag on the curb, and it’s going to disappear,” said Karen Sullivan, Otsego County planning director. Except a reduc-
A Post-Long Discussion Beginning t the end of the month, MOSA will end with a whimper.
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HUNTER CHARGED:
Hunter Robert R. Gerbino of Long Island was reportedly charged Tuesday, April 8, with criminally negligent homicide in the Nov. 16 death of hunter Charles Bruce, 52, in the Town of Westford.
tion in hours at the transfer stations, “you aren’t going to see anything different, except Casella shirts instead of MOSA shirts. “No one’s going to know any-
Al Colone looks at the oldest known Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen charter, dated 1886, loaned by John Scarzafava.
thing even happened.” Sullivan, who has administered the effort to take the “O” out of MOSA, the Montgomery-OtsegoSchoharie Solid Waste Management Authority, was commenting on the county Board of Representative’s Please See NO MOSA, A6
REMEMBERING RAILROADING
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ayor Dick Miller and Common Council will look forward and back when they gather at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, to decide what to do when their first city manager, Mike Long, Mike Long departs at the end of May. “The council hopefully will have a thoughtful discussion and come to a decision on whether to or how to review the charter – and how to go about conducting the search for the city manager,” said Mayor Dick Miller, who moved the regular starting time up one hour to free up time Public input is welcome, he said, although no special time has been set aside for that purpose; there will be the usual petitioners’ session at the beginning Please See POST-LONG, A7
SIGNAL AT CENTER, CHURCH ISSUE THAT WON’T GO AWAY
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Deb Harvey, Bruno Scavo, Tom Speranzi and Karen Anderson pore over photos and other D&H railroad memorabilia at the third annual Joe & Mary Dinner Saturday, April 5, at Sixth Ward Athletic Club.
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The signal is obsolete and can’t be fixed, City Engineer Jim Hawver explains.
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ood, family and friends – for the people of the Sixth Ward, these three things most define the Oneonta’s D&H railroad era. “Every Sunday, my mother would make homemade pasta,” said Tommy Speranzi. “My dad, he worked on the railroad, and he would go down to the rail yards and find a few hobos, Bruno Scavo, right, shows invite them back to eat homea photo of dad Charles made pasta and drink homeDrago to son Tony. made wine. We always had potatoes and their famous enough food.” pigs-in-a-blanket cabbage rolls And, as at all the past Joe – that recalled the beloved & Mary banquets, there was restaurant that now houses plenty of food – ham, mashed the Sixth Ward Athletic Club.
“That’s what drew people here years ago,” said Bruno Scavo, who helped organize the annual dinner. “Joe held more banquets than anyplace else in Oneonta.” This year’s dinner – the third, on Saturday, April 5 – honored not just the memory of Joe and Mary DeFiore, but also the city’s railroad heritage. “There was a walking path right past here, so when the railroad workers finished a hard day, they stopped here to refresh themselves,” said Albert Colone. Colone had issued a call for railroad memorabilia, so the evening was an invitation to tell railroad stories and Please See DINNER, A6
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he Most Rev. Edward B. Scharfenberger will be installed as bishop of Albany, which includes Otsego County, on Sunday, April 10, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany. St. Mary’s pastor, Father David Wm. Mickiewicz, and his associate pastor, Rev. Scott VanDerveer, will attend the ceremony. Other Oneonta attendees include parishioners Martha Delello and Marci Brunswick, a young parishioner, Christopher Cerosaletti, 17, and Mel Sperti, director of faith formation, who has been invited to help with the event’s hospitality. The group plans to bring a gift of Sharffenberger Chocolates to the new
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nels, he said. The new bishop, appointed by Pope Francis on Feb. 11, replaces the Most Rev. Howard Hubbard, who resigned last fall after reaching the mandatory
Caitlyn Syman Wins College’s Writing Award
retirement age of 75. Most recently, Scharfenberger was pastor of St. Matthias Church, Ridgewood, Queens, but had filled various roles in the Diocese of Brooklyn, including serving on the committee for sexually abused children. He was episcopal vicar (pastoral supervisor) for Queens since 2013. A native of Bushwick, Brooklyn, he graduated from Cathedral Preparatory Seminary High School and Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception. He went to seminary at the North American College in Rome, graduating from the Gregorian University in 1973.
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n 14 years as the principal of Edmeston Central School Principal, Martha Windsor has learned that while an open-door policy is good, it’s better to walk the halls. “I try to bump into students and chat with them,” she Windsor said. “I try to get to know them from the time they’ll little to graduation – it’s a wonderful experience.” Windsor, who formerly worked as a librarian and the assistant principal at Center Street, Valley View and the Oneonta High school, will be awarded the K-12 Building Principal Award by the School Administration Association of New York State. The award was created to honor those principals who undertake the demands and challenges of a multi-level, K-12 building. Though she had loved working as a librarian at Center Street School and Valleyview, she found her true calling working as the assistant principal at the high school. “I felt like I might be able to help those kids,” she said. “I developed a level of trust.” That was 14 years ago. “I’ve known some of these kids since kindergarten!” she said. It’s her mission, she said, to make the school a welcoming place for families, even with the increased security of recent years. “I’m going to continue to make it a friendly, positive place for staff and kids,” she said. “We need our families to feel welcome here.”
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esults of months-long tracking of three golden eagles by Tom Salo, research coordinator with the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society, will be detailed at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 18, at the Cooperstown Presbyterian Church, Pioneer Street, Cooperstown. Salo is studying how this rare – and
rarely seen – species uses habitat and terrain in the two counties. Delaware and Otsego counties are important areas for golden eagles, a state endangered species. Hawk migration counts show a significant part of the eastern population passes through here each spring and fall, according to the DOAS. Winter moni-
toring with baited wildlife cameras – “camera traps” – since 2010 has shown the area to be at the northern edge of the species’ winter range. Researchers based at West Virginia University have been trapping and tracking golden eagles by use of GPS technology since 2006, but none here before this winter.
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EDITORIAL
To Succeed, Mayor, City Council Must Understand What Happened
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neonta Mayor Dick Miller expects Common Council to “review the charter” when it meets at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, for the first time since City Manager Mike Long’s resignation after 18 months. A better goal might be to review the implementation of the charter. The shift from 16 departmental fiefdoms overseen by a part-time mayor and then-aldermen to a unified, professional administration is not an easy one. Habits need to change for the new reality to work. To large degree, the departing city manager’s strengths (considerable) and weaknesses are irrelevant. His successor will also fall short of perfection – we all do – only in different ways. What needs to be determined is: Are the pieces sufficiently in place for the next city manager to succeed? • That sentence, unedited, originally read, “Is there sufficient commitment to professional governance for the next city manager to succeed?” But that suggests City Hall
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A February 2011 panel of city officials from elsewhere who had experienced the transition to city manager advised the Oneonta Charter Commission on the pitfalls: recalcitrant department heads and meddling elected officials. Commission chair Dave Rissberger moderated.
hasn’t been well run, and that’s a hard case to make. When you think about recent mayors – Brenner, Muller, Nader – leadership has been exceptional. Think of Joe Bernier’s 30-year tenure: His title was community development director, but – as jobs grow to meet the talents of the person filling it – he expanded it to city manager without portfolio.
The new charter was an effort to build on that success, to institutionalize success, by a community self-confident enough not to interpret change as criticism. • Remember the panel convened by the Charter Commission in February 2011 at First UM – officials from Corning, Beacon, Elmira and elsewhere who had
experienced the transition to professional governance? It identified two pitfalls. • One, that department heads, used to a light rein, bristle under the new accountability, some seeking to end-run the new boss. • Two, that the mayor and city council members, used to meddling – actually, it’s part of their necessary oversight under the regime they had been used to – continue to do so. Both things undoubtedly happened here to some degree. How much should be clear in the minds of the mayor and Common Council as they chart the next steps. • In retrospect, the magnitude of shifting to a city manager form of government was under appreciated. The idea was to hire a professional and expect all the pieces to fall into place. As the mayor and council members review the implementation of the charter, there’s need for individual examinations of conscience. Did each sufficiently embrace the leadership imperatives necessary for a city manager form of government to succeed?
At least one, to hear tell, tried to sabotage it. It might also be asked, was there sufficient discussion among the department heads and elected officials about how their roles had to change for the new system to succeed? When City Hall needed guidance on redistricting, it contracted with SUNY New Paltz’s Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach for advice. Perhaps one of CRREO’s consultants can lead the mayor and Council members in this new discussion. • Success isn’t guaranteed; nor is it out of reach. But neither should failure – a rare failure of Mayor Miller’s administration (and those self-serving leaks, wherever they came from, were disgraceful) – be brushed off. A second failure – made more likely if this one isn’t sufficiently understood and the proper adjustments made – would suggest to future prospects that Oneonta city manager is simply a lousy job, a no-win. At Tuesday’s Common Council meeting, the stakes are high.
ISSUE & DEBATE: Should State’s New Tests Be Feared – Or Embraced? Editor’s Note: Danielle Boudet, Morris, a parent of two, wrote this letter to the editor raising concerns about the state’s standardized tests now being administered to Grades 3-8.
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f you are the parent of a child in Grades 3-8, then you know that the focus of education has shifted to the upcoming state tests in English Language Arts and Math in progress now through June 2. But did you know that you have the right to refuse these tests on your child’s behalf? Last year, an unprecedented number of parents, fed up with excessive testing and accountability, boycotted the Grades 3-8 state tests. This year again, record numbers will refuse to participate in this series of standardized, high-stakes tests. Parents stand united to send a powerful message to the state Department of Education and the Board of Regents that they are sick of the stranglehold testing has over our schools. Throughout all corners of the Empire State, more than 45 parent and educator groups, comprised of tens of thousands of individual members, are focused on the
upcoming testing season. In Oneonta, a growing number of parents are planning to refuse this year’s tests. The refusal process is easy and starts with a refusal letter that parents simply submit to their school indicating their decision to refuse state testing, and that their child will be coded as a “999’ or a refusal. This will result in a child receiving “no score’ according to NYSED’s own Student Information Repository System (SIRS) manual. Many districts, such as the Oneonta City School District, are accepting a parent’s letter on behalf of the student. These students will be automatically counted as a refusal and allowed to read in an alternate location. Refusal policies vary district by district however. Parents are encouraged to contact their school administrators to inquire about how the district plans on handling test refusals. There are no negative ramifications for Please See TESTS, A6
Editor’s Note: CCS Executive Principal Lynn Strang, Elementary Principal Teresa Gorman and High School Principal Mike Cring wrote this letter to parents, seeking to allay any concerns.
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n an effort to help ease anxieties that you or your child may feel about upcoming New York State testing in April and May, the district would like to explain how we use the results to improve education for your child. The most important thing we want parents to know is that we take every opportunity to try to put our students at ease. We ask them simply to try to do their best so that we can improve their education. How your child does on state assessments has no impact on her/his school report card. Instead, we view the results as valuable information to measure our own performance. As soon as we receive the assessment results, we analyze them and look at ways we
can improve the program for all students. This could mean revising our curriculum at a certain grade level or acquiring new resources to enhance instruction in an area in which our students experience difficulty. Individual, group, class and grade-level data give us meaningful feedback that we can use to improve our curriculum and instruction for everyone. This will be the second year of more rigorous state assessments, which are aligned to the Common Core Learning Standards. While even New York State has acknowledged the fact that its implementation of Common Core was not well done last year, we do believe in the overall goal of higher standards to challenge our students so we can better prepare them for college and careers in the 21st century. On the back of this letter is information about the exams and suggestions about what you can do to help ease any stress your child may have about the assessments. If you have any questions about the assessments or Common Core Learning Standards, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Support Independent Revenues For Local Libraries To the Editor: In many of the discussions I have heard regarding the future of our public libraries, one fact kept coming up repeatedly, and seems to me to be of major significance. It is not the books or electronic communication, nor the educational aspects of a library, which are important as well, but rather the social function of a public library. As noted in a Letter to the Editor in the New York Times (3/29/14), and as some researchers have found, the
public library is an important civic and social space. At the public library, children can discover literature; focus groups can discuss political, cultural or any other issues; village residents and visitors can meet. The library serves the public, regardless of age, ethnicity, or financial means. It is a meeting place, where people create new bonds and strengthen old ones. At the library, searching the book shelves or sitting by a stranger allows a direct, personal connection
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that is not available online. And this direct connection in the public library enriches our lives individually and communally. Therefore, I hope that we will ensure the preservation of our public library by voting this May in the school district elections to fund Hartwick and the Village of Cooperstown Libraries. OFRA HYMAN Village Library Board Member Cooperstown
Ukraine Doesn’t Argue That U.S. Should Embrace Liquified Gas To the Editor: We signed a petition to the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate which says: “The oil and gas industry is using the crisis in Ukraine as an excuse to pressure Congress to rubber stamp approval of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. “But gas exports won’t help the situation in Eastern Europe. It’s just a ploy by the oil and gas industry to increase fracking and export
U.S. fracked gas to the highest bidder abroad, while causing irreparable damage to our climate and to water, air and health here at home. Protect our communities and climate, not big oil and gas industry profits.” Will you sign this petition? JOHN and JEAN FINCH Toddsville Editor’s Note: Link to the petition is on www.allotsego.com
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mong other things nestled away in the 2014-15 state budget is an experimental public campaign financing provision that would apply only to the state Comptroller race, called for by the current Comptroller, Tom DiNapoli. His predecessor, Alan Hevesi, went to jail for influence peddling. DiNapoli’s conduct in office has been squeaky clean. Unlike the governor and the legislative leaders, he has been assiduous about who he takes money from and unlike all the others who are not touched by the new public financing provision, DiNapoli has nothing to lose except his existing campaign money. Cuomo, on the other hand, has over $30 million in his campaign account. Similarly, the legislative leaders, both Democrats and Republicans, got where they were the old fashioned way, by taking campaign contributions from all those
interests who wanted something back for the campaign dollars. I wonder who they think they are fooling. Some of these leaders, particularly the Republicans who have a lot of big spenders ready, willing and able to keep them office, have argued that the people wouldn’t stand for politicians using tax dollars to run for office. The public perception is that our legislators are unethical and that kind of self-serving approach does have some resonance with them. The Republicans got around their own arguments by funding the Comptroller campaign with unclaimed money in various state accounts. Despite his huge war chest, Cuomo has been making the argument that he is actually in favor of some public campaign financing. Alan Chartock is president of WAMC at 99.3 FM in Oneonta.
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History
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Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
125 Years Ago
Louise Arnot and company will begin a week’s engagement at the Metropolitan on Monday evening, opening in the popular drama “49.” Miss Arnot is pronounced one of the best actresses ever appearing in Oneonta, and her support is first class. Popular prices: 10, 20 and 30 cents. There is no better place to form an idea of the number of new buildings now being built in Oneonta can be found than on the hill on the south side of the river. In all parts of the village new houses are seen going up, while the East end looks as though it had the chickenpox, so freely is it spotted with newly built unpainted buildings. April 1889
100 Years Ago
Gagne is a former Olympic wrestler with a smooth, springy movement. He never pulls hair unless his opponent does it first. April 1954
30 Years Ago
Approximately 90 people turned out Saturday night to honor Oneonta Fire Chief Francis “Cooty” Russo at a testimonial dinner sponsored by members of the Sixth Ward Athletic Club. Russo is a former president, treasurer and founding member of the club, which began as a local softball team years ago. Russo was named fire chief on June 30, 1983. Among those honoring Russo were club members Ani Colone, Albert Colone, Garret Huyer, John Scarzafava, several city firemen and Roger Hughes, who was mayor when Russo became a fireman. “When I joined the department in 1958 I wanted, someday, to become chief,” Russo said. “You have a good department, and I’m not saying that because I’m chief. You have good firemen who are dedicated. You can sleep easy at night knowing they are there to protect you.” Russo served 15 years before being promoted to captain in 1973. He was appointed fire department instructor in 1975 and became the department trainer in 1976. Russo was cited for “outstanding performance” by the Otsego County Fire Association for his actions at a 1974 Delaware & Hudson Railway explosive propane fire at Emmons. April 1984
80 Years Ago
If you decide to tour the solar system in a space ship and hope to find a reception committee waiting at the airport, steer for the planet Venus. Even there, zooming to a stop after your hundred million mile flight from earth, you may find no life except a few plants. On any other planet you probably will find no life at all. That is the opinion of Dr. Walter S. Adams, director of Mount Wilson Observatory after studies of the planets with the world’s largest telescope. It is also quite probable, he says, that should a space pilot leave the solar system far behind and explore throughout the universe, he would find no place in that vast expanse where life as we know it exists. Venus is better fitted than any other planet for the existence of life but the absence of oxygen in its atmosphere and a long period of rotation make life on Venus improbable. April 1934
60 Years Ago
Professional wrestling’s heavyweight champion, Verne Gagne, will again head a three-match mat card April 21 at Hartwick College in the second wrestling event this year in Oneonta. Gagne, the former Minnesota football star, who forsook the gridiron for wrestling, meets the Terrible Teuton, the notorious
20 Years Ago
April 1914 villain of wrestling, Hans Schmidt, in a best of three falls match. Schmidt, who is often described by sportswriters as “the meanest man in wrestling,” has vowed to take the championship from Gagne. Gagne, on the other hand is fast becoming a national hero. Schmidt, who weighs 240 pounds on a 6’4” frame, is noted for bone-crushing holds and odd tactics. Gagne, on the other hand, is noted for his clean-cut, scientific wrestling tactics, which have been displayed on television.
After a three-year absence, an Oneonta landmark has returned – Nick’s Diner re-opened Saturday at 22) Chestnut Street. The eatery had closed in September 1991. Nick’s has returned under the ownership of Melissa Burghart, a veteran with eight years of experience in the diner business. “We want to give “the workingman a good place to eat at a good price,” Burghart said. The menu will feature homecooked foods and fresh pies. April 1994
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Issue & Debate: School Tests TESTS/From A4 students, teachers or schools. Common myths that students will automatically fail, that a teacher’s evaluation will be negatively affected or that a district will lose money are simply not true. The state tests have no bearing on a student’s report card, promotion or graduation. “No scores” from refusals are not used to calculate teacher accountability, according to the SIRS manual. Furthermore, teachers have reported that students of all abilities refused last year’s test, which means that a single refusal does not affect a teacher’s evaluation using growth scores. The biggest fear tactic aimed at parents is that our schools will be punished financially. Last year, many schools failed to comply with the state’s participation regulations because of high numbers of refusals, including Ichabod Crane Elementary/Middle School in Columbia County, which had an incredible 26 percent opt out rate. The bottom line is that there have been zero reports of schools losing money because well-informed parents did the right thing by “opting out.” There is no harm in “opt-
ing out.” But there is great harm in opting in as we perpetuate a test-driven type of education. Standardized testing is just one limited means to gauge student progress. They measure only a fraction of what is important; create a one-sizefits-all approach to teaching and learning; and narrow curricula while ignoring valuable programs and subjects outside of ELA and math. The state tests, in particular, do not benefit instruction, as the material is a copyrighted secret and the results take too long to come back to educators, and then without student-specific information that makes the results useful. These highstakes tests are an unreliable snapshot in time that unfairly judge children, teachers, and schools. Worse, the reliance on high-stakes testing is damaging the culture of our schools and reducing our children’s classrooms to test preparation centers. Parents know that their children are more than a number. Unfortunately, the data-driven agenda of the state Education Department has ignored concerns repeatedly expressed by tens of thousands of parents and educators across New York.
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First Brotherhood Of Brakemen Charter Surfaces At Joe, Mary’s DINNER/From A1 admire such mementos as the original contract drawn up by the Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen, the first railroad workers’ union, founded in the red caboose now on display in Neahwa Park. “John Scarzafava had this and he thought we might appreciate it for the dinner,” said Colone. “So he loaned it to us.” “We were a railroad family,” said Scarzafava via e-mail; he was unable to attend. “My grandfather, my father and three uncles worked for the D&H.” The lawyer found the document at a flea market and, based on his research, believes it to be the oldest remaining document of the Brotherhood. While their dads worked long days on the railroads, Sixth Ward kids also looked for ways to make some money. “When the troop trains would stop for water, the soldiers would give us money to go into town and get them sandwiches or a
newspaper,” said Scavo. “Some of the kids would walk really slow so the train would be gone before they got back and the got to keep the money and the sandwich!” Though many present
were the children of railroad workers, there were a few old timers who toiled in the nearby yards were among the diners. “We’re a great big family,” said Stuart Hurlburt, who was joined at his table by fellow D&H
veteran Bob “Bear” Bryant. “We all looked out for each other, worked together, partied together. We had a strong friendship off the railroad.” “So did the wives,” his wife, Suanne added.
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1822 Cape w/Craftsman Addition—Charming early cape w/Craftsman addition bordering Red Creek just minutes from the Village of Cooperstown. Original home features parlor w/Vermont Castings woodstove, pine floors and door leading to deck. Arts-and-Crafts kitchen w/tiled antique island and seating, tiled backsplash, tiled floor and countertops, oak cabinets, skylight. Original stairs lead to BR w/wide pine floor, skylights. Additional storage in the eaves, ¾ bath on main floor. Addition includes master BR w/¾ bath and another BR and full bath. DR w/vaulted ceiling, built-ins, period reproduction light fixtures and French doors leading to deck. Down a few steps into LR w/wood floors, lovely gas fireplace w/Craftsman mantel and built-ins. Great natural light throughout. Spacious breezeway to 2-car garage. Too many details to list. This is a ‘must see’ property. Offered Co-Exclusively by Ashley Connor Realty $299,900
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MLS#93519 Middlefield $129,900 A sweet country cottage in a sweet country setting. Renovated in 2001 and well maintained since. Wide plank floors throughout the downstairs, which has a comfortable flow, ½ bath and laundry. 2 surprisingly large BRs upstairs w/full bath. Close to Cooperstown.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2014
Mayor, Common Council Prepare For Life After Manager Goes
POST-LONG/From A1 and open forum at the end. A preview of what’s to come occurred Monday, April 7, when the council’s Human Resources Committee met, and Miller provide a 22-item checklist of projects underway that need to be reassigned, “in addition to keeping the lights on.” He also attached a handwritten list of 17 additional issues on the table. Items the mayor will take on include determining Oneonta Police Department staffing levels, which Miller later said have been proposed and are now under negotiation with the police
union, and moving forward with the commuter-tax proposal. Some items were traditional City Hall functions – negotiations and revaluation, for instance – but almost all involved innovation, from a downtown development plan, to the Housing Visions neighborhood revitalization, to redeveloping the Armory. At the meeting, City Treasurer Meg Hungerford, who will be interim city manager after Long retires May 30, distributed a memo saying “I look forward to working with all involved to effectuate a smooth transition.”
Her recommendations included implementing a structural reorganization she said Long had outlined in March, organizing the city’s 16 departments under “five functional areas.” One of the challenges of the citymanager system, continued in the new City Charter voters approved in November 2011, had been to establish a streamlined management of the departments. “The streamling of reporting functions” – under public safety, facilities and operations, community development, finance and personnel – “is necessary in both the short and long
term,” Hungerford wrote. She added, “We want to make it very easy for a new city manager to benefit from this reorganization.” Said Miller, “Nobody thinks the current structure works.” When conversation turned to the recruitment of Long’s replacement, Miller said, “Upstate New York is not a
“It’s a good step for the county,” Sullivan said. “There were concerns that we were Sullivan going to eliminate the small hauler, tip fees were going to go up, we were going to have to close ‘Northern’,” the Cooperstown transfer station. “It’s been a great compromise, in that we have met all three concerns,” she continued.
Plus, Casella has a fiveyear contract: “If things aren’t going the way they should, we can take a different approach.” In Cooperstown, transfer station hours will be 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. (one hour off each end) Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (instead of daily), and 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays (instead of 7-2). Oneonta’s transfer station will remain open 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, but reduced to 8 a.m. to noon Fridays. However, between Memorial Day and Labor Day (and after three-day weekends) Saturday hours will be extended until 2.
by talking to contacts, was discussed, but unresolved. Toward the end, the mayor seemed inclined toward a suggestion of a search committee of two Council members, two members from outside City Hall, Miller and Kathy Wolverton, the city’s personnel director.
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NO MOSA/From A1 Wednesday, April 2, vote to turn garbage collection over to Casella Resource Solutions, based in Rutland, Vt., but operating locally out of Lower River Street, Oneonta. Casella, which had responded to an RFP (request for proposals), will charge the county $512,500 a year to operate and manage its transfer stations – in Oneonta and Cooperstown – and to charge a $50.22per-ton transportation and disposal fee to haulers and individuals dropping off trash. MOSA’s rate has been $72 per ton, and county reps are considering adding a surcharge to Casella’s $50.22 to help cover the obligation of maintaining, in perpetuity, MOSA’s closed landfills in Montgomery County. How big a surcharge is a final question now being worked out, according to county Rep. Linda Rowinski, D-Oneonta, who chairs the board’s Solid Waste Committee. Alex Shields of Richfield Springs, who recently completed his second stint on the MOSA board, was a county rep when state regulations went into effect in the mid1980s aimed at cleaning up the old town dumps. “Costs went from $8,000 a year to $200,000 a year in the Town of Richfield,” he said. The county looked at developing its own state-ofthe-art landfill, “but nobody wanted it in the backyard,” he said. So the only option was to join the three-county effort. However, Otsego County fell short in its obligation to contribute recyclables to the system, and at one point found itself paying an additional $1 million a year to MOSA. That, and private solutions for garbage collection that emerged over the years spurred the county’s effort to extract itself, which is now happening.
garden spot, and there’s the issue of trailing spouses.” That, he said, suggests the search might better focus on the Northeast, instead of nationally. Whether to hire a recruiter to conduct a search, as was done prior to the Long hire, or for a local effort to seek out candidates
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