WOOD VOWS TO SUE
FIRE BOARD
EXTINGUISHES
FIRE BOARD
For Now, Negotiations With City
For OFD Protection In Town Over
By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
ONEONTA – The Town of Oneonta Fire District is no more, (at least for now.)
As expected, Chairman Johna Peachin and her allies, Fire Commissioners Fred Volpe and Ron Peters, this evening voted for the dissolution, while the two new commissioners, Al Rubin and Michelle Catan, voted against.
Though no public comment was allowed – even Town Supervisor Bob Wood was denied an opportunity to answer a point the commissioners raised – more than 40 citizens crowded into the Sunday school classroom of the Elm Park United Methodist Church.
The vote ends more than two years of stalled negotiations after City Hall sought to raise the town Fire District’s payment for the services of the professional Oneonta Fire Department from $800,000 to $1.1 million.
