Letter from Joseph R. Membrino

Vote Membrino for Village Trustee

On Wednesday, March 18, Cooperstown voters will elect a mayor and three trustees. I write to ask for your support and your vote to continue my service as village trustee for a three-year term. Since joining the Board of Trustees in 2019, my assignments have included chairing the Finance Committee and membership on the Water and Sewer Board and Watershed Supervisory Committee.

Oversight of village finances is a paramount responsibility. The village is fortunate to have dedicated and responsive staff who received well-earned praise from village auditors for the state of village finances. We have managed revenues, appropriations, and grant funds for maintenance and capital projects throughout the village and in our parks in the Towns of Middlefield and Otsego. Street, sidewalk, and water and sewer repairs, improvements, and replacement are ongoing.

I have been pleased to join the dedicated efforts of numerous advocates for a community dog park facility. This year, the Board of Trustees plans to appropriate funds to design a dog park on land adjacent to the Cooperstown Central School District on a site that the village acquired an interest in for a recreation facility more than a decade ago.