At its meeting Monday night, the Common Council approved Local Law No. 1 of the Year 2016 – a local law repealing Section C2-01 of the Charter of the City of Oswego, with respect to city officers and employees. City employees will no longer be bound to live within the city as a condition of their employment. The vote was 6-1 with Council President Shawn Walker casting the lone nay vote.
Applications for the Pre-Kindergarten program are now available. The program is designed for children who were born between Dec. 2, 2011 and Dec. 1, 2012 and is offered at no cost. Children are selected by lottery.
The proposed charter modification would add a Section I, which authorizes the mayor to waive the residency requirements for an officer or employee when the strict adherence to the residency requirements will result in the loss of an officer or employee or the inability to fill a position of employment by the most qualified candidate regardless of residency or domicile.
Freezing Code, the local Vex Robotics Competition team, continued its winning season recently at a tournament in Troy, where it competed against 38 other teams from northern New York State. They, with their two alliance partners from Clifton Park, were the tournament champions.
Councilors give a favorable recommendation to a request hold the Oswego Polar Plunge for Special Olympics at Wright’s Landing this spring. The full council will also nominate a junior member to take part in the plunge.
Oswego County STOP-DWI Coordinator Robert Lighthall announced that Oswego County police agencies will participate in a special enforcement effort to crackdown on impaired driving. The statewide STOP-DWI Crackdown efforts start on February 5 and will end on February 8.
The average temperature for January 2016 was 28.3 degrees. That is 4.2 degrees above average. Total precipitation for January was 1.93 inches. That is 1.75 inches below average.
The Upstate Energy Jobs Coalition today (Feb. 3) announced its strong support for two pieces of legislation introduced by Assemblyman William Barclay and sponsored by Senator Patty Ritchie that would help secure the future of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba.
Mayor Billy Barlow and Community Development Director Justin Rudgik joined local small business owner Jeff Holbrook on Tuesday afternoon, applauding Holbrook on his recent endeavor to house and coordinate a gigantic transformer traveling to Exelon Corp. at Nine Mile Point from Portugal.
‘Student Night’ returns to kick off the Oswego International War of 1812 Symposium at 6 p.m. on April 1. The Lake Ontario Event and Conference Center in Oswego hosts the sixth annual event which features an esteemed panel of multi-national historians through April 3.
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