Cooperstown’s DMV Is Generating 9 Times What Oneonta’s Does By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The tallying’s been done, and it determined the county DMV office in Oneonta generates $500,000 in sales-tax revenues annually, a fraction of the $4.5 million equivalent generated in the Cooperstown one, county board Chair David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Middlefield, said today. The county keeps only 12.7 percent of those revenues, but the proportion generated by each office shows the relative amount of…
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This Christmas, Shop Local – For The Fun Of It! Editorial in the Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 27-28 Shopping local isn’t simply a feel-good decision. It’s essential to the economic well-being of our Otsego County neighbors and ourselves. In recent days, that’s been dramatized by the debate over whether the county should close the Department of Motor Vehicles Office in Cooperstown. The office was under threat because local drivers have opted to renew their licenses in Albany via the Internet.…
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…
AUTO DEALERS ECHO OBJECTIONS Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 20-21, 2014 Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts from auto dealers’ letters to the county Board of Representatives telling how their businesses would be negatively impacted by the closing of the Cooperstown DMV. This would be a hardship for us as we use the Cooperstown branch several times a month. The next closest DMV office is located in Herkimer, which is twice the distance. Please consider keeping the Cooperstown office open for all…
Knowledgeable Folks In County DMV Help Cut Through Albany Bureacracy Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 20-21, 2014 Editor’s Note: This is a letter from attorney Les Sittler, Fly Creek, to Kathy Clark, R-Otego, the county Board of Representatives chair. I read recently, with much concern, that the Board of Representatives of Otsego County is considering closing the DMV office in Cooperstown. As you may know, I have been an attorney practicing in the northern part of Otsego County since 1988.…
County Considers End To Cooperstown DMV By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014 It may not happen, but one option on the table right now as the Otsego County Board of Representatives completes its budget deliberations is closing the Department of Motor Vehicles’ Cooperstown office and consolidating DMV operations in Oneonta. It’s one of a few unresolved issues – in addition to merging Oneonta’s two senior citizen sites into one, at Nader Towers, giving…
DMV, Elm Park Saved During County Budget Workshop COOPERSTOWN – After two weeks of worry about the possible closing of the Cooperstown DMV office and the relocation of the Elm Park senior meal center, a sigh of relief came when both items were once again placed on the 2015 budget proposal by an overwhelming majority. During a three-hour workshop, the members of the Otsego County board debated, argued and added items to the County Treasurer Dan Crowell’s proposed budget. In…