Letter from Jay Bosley

Bassett Project Will Be Beneficial

This writing is in response to your April 4, 2024 editorial regarding housing in Oneonta and Cooperstown, New York.

It is true, a possible 100 percent of voting-age residents living on Averill Road, Cooperstown were against the Bassett project in January of 2023, all four of them.

That changed in September of 2023, when we moved into our place. We respect our neighbors’ opposition to the Bassett project, but my wife and I fully support said project. There are a total of six voting-age residents living on Averill Road and we represent at least 33.33 percent of them.

We agree that the improvements to the infrastructure in Cooperstown will be beneficial. On Averill Road, it is likely that two sewage grinder-lift stations and a septic system can be replaced by a gravity flow sewer main. It is also likely that a new water storage tank placed at a much higher elevation could eliminate the pressure pump systems that residents currently have to maintain.

If folks are up in arms, our arms are open.

Jay Bosley
Cooperstown