Common Council Asked To Join Hartwick Students In ‘Get Scoop’ ONEONTA – Southside Mall manager Luisa Montanti has invited Common Council and City Hall department heads to participate in “Get the Scoop,” an ice-cream social and free movie the mall and Hartwick College are hosting next Sunday, the afternoon of the 4th. At the suggestion of Paul Patterson, Oneonta Public Transit director, the officials have been invited to get on the OPT bus at 3:45 p.m., before it picks up the…
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Common Council Makes It Easier To Raise Dog, Cat Fees In Future By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – One more reason to keep your dog on a leash. At their meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 2 Common Council updated the “Animals” ordinance in the local law to make it easier to change fee schedules for impounded animals. “Fees change from year to year,” said Mayor Gary Herzig. “By removing the fees from the ordinance, we’re not having to change…
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COMMON COUNCIL REPORT Oneonta Common Council Approves Revised Charter ONEONTA – Six months after Mayor Gary Herzig appointed an ad hoc committee to revise the Oneonta City Charter, Common Council unanimously approved the local law amending the revised charter as presented. “I feel we did a good job of bringing this to a good place,” said Council Member Melissa Nicosia, Second Ward, a member of Mayor Gary Herzig’s ad hoc charter review committee. “Complains we heard were listened to, and…
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Task Force Briefs City Council On Solar Permits, Urban Forests By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The sustainability task force wants to make it easier for homeowners to let the sunshine in – with solar panels, that is. “We’ve brought forward a unified solar permit that makes it easier to go through the process of getting permits for rooftop solar,” said Mark Davies, a member of the Sustainability Task Force during tonight’s meeting of the Common Council. “If…
Move Qualifications Out Of Charter, Panel Says Residency Requirement Remains in Charter By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Mayor Herzig’s ad hoc Charter Review Committee last evening proposed removing the qualifications for the city manager from the charter, putting them in a job description, like all other positions. That would allow Common Council to change them by a majority vote. “No other job has their requirements outlined in the charter,” said Committee member and Council member Melissa Nicosia,…
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