As he has done for the past six months, Shaughnessy gave the council a litany of reasons why maintaining 27 Market Street as a parking lot is the best option for business development in the short term.…
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At the City of Oneonta’s Common Council meeting on Tuesday, April 1, Director of Strategic Partnerships Christine Nealon of Rehabilitation Support Services presented an architectural rendering of the development her organization is proposing to build at 27 Market Street should city officials approve sale of the property to RSS.…
The latest drama in the continuing saga of 27 Market Street and Rehabilitation Support Services was laid out in your March 13 piece. I was struck by the defensive reaction by the mayor, imploring the council to “step outside the comfort zone of shared opinion.”…
This letter is intentionally concise. Unlike those in opposition, we recognize that this project is in the conceptual phase and many key details have not been ironed out. As a collective, we believe that those dealing with substance use disorder and/or mental illness deserve our compassion and a place to recover.…
We are actively engaged in local government affairs and have been closely following RSS’s activities in Oneonta and have significant concerns regarding your organization’s efforts to purchase 27 Market St.…
Drnek ended the meeting with a presentation of his vision to create a new neighborhood on Market Street. He asked council members and the public “to step outside the comfort zone of shared opinion and open your mind to alternate possibilities.”…
Robert Semaya, manager of LFT Amsterdam LLC, the owner of Clinton Plaza and Levites Realty Management LLC, was not able to be at the meeting in person. He sent his property manager to address the entity’s concerns about how the shortage of convenient parking downtown has contributed to a 40 percent vacancy rate in Clinton Plaza.…
Well, it’s that time again—the new year is just around the corner (or the ball has already dropped, depending upon when you get your copy of the paper or read this online), and many of us are bandying about new year’s resolutions that, let’s face it, probably won’t make it through January. Rather than those sorts of resolutions, here at Iron String Press we have opted instead to focus on things for which we would like to see resolutions in…
Lee shared, “During 2019, $843,517.00 of the fund balance was used due to investing over $1 million into equipment needs. (In) 2020, the pandemic hit. Due to the leadership of the excellent department heads, over $2 million of expenses were delayed due to the unforeseen consequences of the pandemic, which meant that those delayed expenditures needed to be realized in the future.…
We do not need another mayor who is pressing on issues that are causing strife or a division with the people of the city. We need a mayor who listens to the people and to help bring unity back into the city.…