CLARK STILL LACKS VOTES TO KEEP JOB By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – According to tally just received, Kathy Clark, R-Otego, still lacks sufficient votes to keep her chairmanship of the Otsego County Board of Representatives. Clark has six of the 14 votes, a minority. Under the board’s weighted voting system, those county reps have more-than-average clout, but their combined votes only add up to 2,842, still short of the 3,084 votes she needs for reelection. The…
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FURIOUS LOBBYING FOR CHAIRMANSHIP Some Say Rep. Powers Shifts To Clark; Others, Outcome Still Too Close To Call By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Furious lobbying is underway this evening as support for the next chair of the Otsego County Board of Representatives sea-saws between incumbent Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and Len Carson, R-Oneonta. Word was circulating that county Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, who mounted an unsuccessful challenge to Clark last year, had just this evening agreed to…
After Debate, Chair’s Appointment Approved But Changes Coming, Marietta Predicts By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – There was lively debate in open session about the process of choosing new Otsego Now board members. But, after a 20-minute executive session called by board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, county reps at today’s special meeting voted unanimously to confirm Cheryl Robinson, the NYCM vice president, to the board of the economic-development agency. She will succeed the Richfield Springs architect, Jim…
AllOTSEGO.com EDITORIAL Block Clark, Delay Making Otsego Now Appointments You may remember a year ago, when Kathy Clark, R-Otego, Otsego County Board of Representatives’ chair, forced through the appointment of a favorite, Rick Hulse, who had been defeated for election a couple of months before, to the Otsego Now board of directors. She forced party discipline on newly elected Republicans – Meg Kennedy, David Bliss, Len Carson, Meg Kennedy, Peter Oberacker and Dan Wilber – who bristled at being told…
COUNTY REPS MEET ON MATTER New Purchasing System Fails To Deliver Road Salt In Time By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – After town garages failed to get road-salt orders in time for the Thanksgiving Weekend snowstorms, the county Board of Representatives is meeting as a “committee of the whole” at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday to ensure its new purchasing agreement with Onondaga County is working satisfactorily. “When you start something new, there are always a couple of glitches,”…
HOT DEBATE IN BOARD ROOM COUNTY TO CUOMO: APPROVE PIPELINE Majority: No Gas, No New Jobs By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego County Board of Representatives a few minutes ago approved sending a letter to Governor Cuomo urging him to push for approval of the Constitution Pipeline. CLICK FOR TEXT OF LETTER TO GOVERNOR The weighted vote was 3,672 ayes to 2,022 nays, with one absence. Voting aye were Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla; Jim Powers, R-Butternuts;…
CLICK FOR FULL TEXT Complete Constitution Pipeline, Cuomo Asked County Board To Debate Sending Letter By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – “Poverty is the illness. Good jobs are the cure,” county Reps. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, and Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, state in the draft of a letter to Governor Cuomo due for consideration at the county Board of Representatives’ October meeting at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Cooperstown. The letter urges the governor to “reconsider the many benefits the Constitution Pipeline…
Bill Mason Appointed County Highway Chief He Brings 24 Years NY DOT Experience By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Bill Mason, the retired DOT engineer who has served as interim county highway superintendent for the past four months, was appointed to a four-year term yesterday by the Otsego County Board of Representatives. He succeeds Ron Tiderencel, who retired in April. In an interview this morning, Mason said his first order of business will be to develop an “asset…
County Board Vote Fails To OK Tourism Contract By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Destination Marketing of Otsego County (DMOC) found itself in the middle of the political crossfire at today’s county Board of Representatives meeting. DMOC is led by a board of volunteer directors from the hospitality industry who contracted with the county to invest part of the county’s bed-tax revenues to put “heads in beds” – i.e., tourists in hotels and motels. The first three-year contract…
CLARK’S COMMITTEE CHAIRS Gelbsman Put On IGA Helm; Carson To Lead Public Safety COOPERSTOWN – Three of Oneonta’s five county reps are emerging as key players in the fifth year that county Rep. Kathy Clark, R-Otego, will chair the county Board of Representatives: Craig Gelbsman, R-12 (representing Wards 3 and 4), in his second term, will chair the influential Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, which oversees economic development. Already, Gelbsman has been serving as the county board’s liaison on the Otsego Now (IDA)…