Trustee Lou Allstadt, center, convinces his colleagues that accepting Brookwood Gardens, even for $1, would be too much of a financial risk to the Village of Cooperstown. His colleagues are, clockwise from front right, Trustees Jim Dean, Cindy Falk and Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, Mayor Katz and Trustees Joan Nicols and Bruce Maxson. (Jim Kevlin/allotsego.com)Chip Northrup outlines his proposal for village ownership of Brookwood at this evening's meeting.
COOPERSTOWN – Despite the urging of a majority of people who spoke during the public comment period, the Village Board this evening voted 4-2 not to submit a $1 bid to assume responsibility for 11 acres of Brookwood Gardens, the Otsego Land Trust property overlooking Glimmerglass two miles north of the village limits.
The trustees then voted, 5-1, to urge the Town of Otsego, where Brookwood is located, or the County of Otsego or some other non-profit entity to assume ownership of the property and develop it or preserve it for the public benefit.
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