Public Hearing On County Budget
Planned Monday In Cooperstown
COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego County Board of Representatives have scheduled a public hearing for 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 1, in the County Office Building to hear comment on the proposed 2015 budget.
The $103 million document includes a local tax levy slightly over $11 million. That reflected a property tax decrease of 2.4 percent.
But given the decision to keep the Cooperstown DMV office and the “Gathering Place” senior site in Oneonta open would reduce that reduction to about 1.7 percent, according to County Treasurer Dan Crowell.
The reduction was made possible by the sale of Otsego Manor to Focus, a private entity based in Rockland County. Most of the $5 million savings has been repurposed for road construction and delayed maintenance of county buildings, Crowell said.