LETTER from AL COLONE As Upstate Declines, There Will Be More Schenevuses To the Editor: What’s to blame for the financial stress currently being experienced by the Schenevus Central School system? Mismanagement? Nah. A ban on hydro-fracking? I doubt it. I think it’s regional population loss which has negatively impacted much of Upstate. If there’s anyone or anything to blame, I’d suggest putting it on the multi-generational commercial decline within the City of Oneonta and the surrounding urban center! Small…
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LETTERS Colone: ‘Microgrid’ Would Use 90% Renewables To the Editor: Dennis Higgins of Otego, once again misstated the content in an early January opinion piece published in this newspaper, which I entitled, “Is a tri-gen municipal microgrid an answer to boosting local energy?” Mr. Higgins is obviously a pretty smart guy, who must know a lot about energy, but struggles with reading the word “biomass.” He said, I “never mentioned” biomass in my original article. For the record, below is…
ONEONTA TOWN BOARD REJECTS GO-EDC STUDY By LIBBY CUDMORE • for allotsego.com ONEONTA – 24 hours after Common Council voted unanimously to pay its $12,500 share of the Local Government Efficiency Grant to study cost-saving measures between the town and the city, the Town Board refused to even bring the resolution, prepared by GO-EDC’s Bill Shue and Al Colone, to a motion for vote. “We don’t respond to ransoms,” said Town Board member Andrew Stammel. “These are two activists who don’t live in our…
Town, City Invited To GO-EDC Talks On Collaborations By JIM KEVLIN • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Dec. 12, 2014 The most steadfast advocate of town-city collaboration is gone, but Mayor Dick Miller’s spirit lives on. GO-EDC, the economic-development advocacy group spearheaded by Albert Colone and Bill Shue, has invited the Oneonta Town Board and Oneonta City Council to a moderated conversation at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15, on how the two might collaborate for the benefit of both, plus the…
GO-EDC Distributes NY Study Of Town-City Merger Benefits ONEONTA – In advance of Monday evening’s meeting of the Oneonta Town Board and Common Council, GO-EDC has distributed copies of the 2008 study showing the advantages of merging the two municipalities into a single Greater Oneonta. The study, prepared by state Commission on Local Government Efficiency & Competitiveness, found financial and organizational benefits in the areas of police, fire, water & sewerage, public transportation, culture & recreation and emergency management. The two…
Oneonta Town, City Councils To Look Into Collaborations ONEONTA – The Oneonta Town Board and Oneonta Common Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15, to consider a comprehensive two-municipality town-sewer master plan, GO-EDC, the economic-development facilitation group, announced this afternoon. The joint meeting will also review the recommendations in the 2008 Center for Government Research study, “Opportunities to Use Shared Services & Consolidation Strategies to Improve Efficiency, Effectiveness and Equity in Local Government,” which used Greater Oneonta as…