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VOL 149 NO. 9
Local students build new rail for Holiday Valley Resort
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2015
Concord approves participation in Efficieny Plan
By Max Borsuk
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By Peter Soscia
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Skiers and snowboarders at Holiday Valley Resort in Ellicottville can now enjoy a brand new rail thanks partly to the work of a Springville-Griffith Institute high school student. S-GI student Mark Doud, along with Pioneer Central High School student Nick Maston, fabricated a kinked box rail for Holiday Valley in their Boards of Cooperative Educational Services welding and metal fabrication class, held at the Ellicottville Career and Technical Education Center. The project started when Holiday Valley contacted instructor Dave Poulin last spring about building a kinked box rail. Holiday Valley supplied the blueprint to the welding class and the class calculated the material cost for the project. Once Holiday Valley approved, they supplied the materials to Poulin’s class. After they got the approval, Poulin and his students discussed all the details of the project, including the deadline, everything that needs to get done and selecting a project manager. Maston was selected the project manager, who as-
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S-GI student Mark Doud (left) and Pioneer student Nick Maston (right) try out the new kinked box they built for Holday Valley Resort, in their welding class at the Ellicottville Career and Technical Education Center. sembled a team of students, including Doud. The project started out with four students working on the rail, but because of another project, two of the team members got pulled off , leaving Maston and Doud doing the majority of the work. “It was an excellent hands-on experience for them,” said Poulin. “Real world, hands-on welding, a lot of problem solving along the way as they were work-
ing to figure out and how to actually make it the way the drawing looked. The kinked box is 16 feet long and consists of a 6-foot piece that sits level with the snow with another 10-foot piece that angles down the slope 15 degrees. “They did an excellent job,” said Poulin. “They worked together as a team and there were a lot of things as they were working they had to figure out. Sometimes they had to backtrack
because something didn’t quite fit or go right so they had to stop, look at what went wrong and do it right and they did that. Doud and Maston are also avid snowboarders, which made the project even more fun for them. “It was awesome because one day when me and Nick
See “Holiday Valley” on page A8
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The Concord Town Board passed two resolutions at their Feb. 12 meeting, one of which will place their support behind Erie County and the other asking the legislature to support a reform. A unanimous approval of the Countywide Government Efficiency Plan places Concord’s support behind the county as the lead agency, the efficiency plan would allow homeowners to receive the New York state property freeze credit. The program, which was enacted by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, provides tax refunds to homeowners by encouraging local government to generate longterm tax relief for taxpayers. This can be done by sharing services, consolidating, merging, demonstrating or implementing operational efficiencies. Once the program is finalized, Concord will begin their participation in it. The town recently received reports from administrators at Erie Community College concerning the system of the Community College Chargeback Rates
program, which requires taxpayers to pay a fee when residents of Erie County attend a two-year school elsewhere in the state. ECC administrators would like to see the policy reviewed by the Erie County Legislature, which lead to the board approving a resolution urging the legislature to convey their support for the reform of the policy. “This chargeback policy was implemented into state law in the 1950s and is inadvertently causing an undue burden on Erie County’s struggling local governments, a review of this policy is warranted by this Honorable Body’s Community Enrichment Committee in order to hear from stakeholders and formulate a multi-partisan strategy to address this issue with the [Western New York] State Delegation and encourage reform of this chargeback policy,” a portion of the resolution reads. “According to ECC administrators, the policy costs taxpayers, county-wide, a total of $5.4 million extra for property taxes in 2013, a result of
See “ECC policy” on page A12