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Common Council Backs Merger Study;

Town Board Asked To Do So Tonight

"Numbers don't lie, and we must get good data," businessman Al Cleinman declares at last night's Common Council meeting, where a $12,500 allocation was approved to match a $50,000 state grant to study the benefits of consolidation of the city and town of Oneonta. The Town Board meets at 7 tonight in the West Oneonta Town Hall, and there's a similar resolution on the agency. "I hope the town will wake up and see this," said Cleinman. (
“Numbers don’t lie, and we must get good data,” businessman Al Cleinman declares at last night’s Common Council meeting, where a $12,500 allocation was approved to match a $50,000 state grant to study the benefits of consolidation of the city and town of Oneonta. The Town Board meets at 7 tonight in the West Oneonta Town Hall, and there’s a similar resolution on the agenda. “I hope the town will wake up and see this,” said Cleinman.  The study would be done by the Center for Governmental Research, Rochester.  (Ian Austin/allotsego.com)

 

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