Mayor Says: Let Treasurer, County Planners

Help Collect County’s Delinquent Ec-Dev Loans

COOPERSTOWN – Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller this afternoon exhorted a key county committee to get four-square behind the new “single point of contact” approach to economic development.

“We really need the integration of the county into this work that the IDA is doing,” said Miller, who appeared before the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee of the county Board of Representatives in the county office building here.

The mayor outlined how the IDA — the county Industrial Development Agency — is collaborating the Oneonta Alliance in “generating and fertilizing ‘Big Ideas’.”  The Alliance includes representatives from the city and town of Oneonta, the two colleges, the banks and other sectors.

He recognized the IGA committee’s concern about deliquent loans, but suggested county Treasurer Dan Crowell’s office or Planning Director Karen Sullivan’s office could take that on, freeing the IGA to refocus attention on the future.