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Barown Named

Village Manager

Cooperstown Village Clerk Teri Barown has been promoted to village administrator.  (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Cooperstown Village Clerk Teri Barown has been promoted to village administrator. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

COOPERSTOWN – Teri Barown, Cooperstown village clerk since 2005, has been appointed village administrator, the first person to fill that position in two decades.

COMPLETE DETAILS IN
THIS WEEK’S JOURNAL

The Village Board made the decision Monday evening, which – given the city manager vacancy in Oneonta City Hall – makes her the sole professional municipal manager in Otsego County.

Under the new arrangements, the village’s three department heads – Police Chief Mike Covert, DPW Superintendent Brian Clancy, and Treasurer Derek Bloomfield – will now report to Barown on a day to day basis.    Also, she will be the go-to person when village trustees want something done, or are seeking information.

A native of Cooperstown, Barown is a 1979 CCS graduate.   She studied at Herkimer Community College and Utica School of Commerce, then worked for attorney Lynn Green, NYSHA, the county personnel office and as Laurens Central School district clerk before joining the village 11 years ago.

She is the mother of three, Matthew, Julie and Nicole.   Matthew’s son, Blake, her first grandchild, was born in July.  (She plans to babysit him this evening.)

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3 Comments

  1. It is about time. Teri our wonderful village will be an even better place for your continued hard work and increased responsibility. Our Village Board has made an excellent decision. Congratulations and Thank you!

  2. I am really delighted, and only sorry that I had somehow not learned of it sooner. That a Village Manager should be created for Cooperstown is something I have long supported, Jim Kevlin argued the need of it in The Freeman’s Journal of April 22, 2011, and Giles Russell served as an unpaid “Village Administrator” in the 1990’s. Teri Barown has long served as Village Clerk and knows our administrative situation very well. Congratulations.

  3. I share the delight that Teri Barown has been named as Village Manager, and only wish I had not learned of it sooner. I remember well, in the 1990s, when Giles Russell, then a trustee, acted as unpaid Village Administrator, and the Freeman Journal’s editorial in the issue of April 22, 2011 explained the need of a new one in some detail. So Congratulations, Teri.

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