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Letter from Andrew (AJ) Hamill

City Needs To Be Run Better

If we as community members are so distraught with having a city administrator who does not meet the educational criteria (having a master’s degree in engineering versus the required public administration degree) mismanaging the City of Oneonta, then we need to start a petition in every ward to either have the Common Council and/or the public get him out, hire a city manager instead that meets the education requirements via a public referendum, and have the Common Council adhere to the City Charter the way it was before, without the addendums. We need the concept of logic instead of stupidity to run the city better and more efficiently.

Andrew (AJ) Hamill
Oneonta

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