Councilors this week approved funds to cover overtime in the fire department. However, it was less than the chief had first asked for. The chief’s original request was for $88,000 and this request is down to $57,000, Council President Ron Kaplewicz pointed out. “It’s a significant reduction,” he said.
UPDATE: Police have identified the victim. His injuries aren’t life-threatening, they say. A pedestrian male had been crossing State Route 104 West from Sheldon Avenue, at which time he was struck by a motor vehicle Thursday night. The Oswego City Fire Department responded and the victim has been transported by helicopter to a Syracuse area hospital.
It’s the first of four that will be located at the Port City’s entrance ways. The welcome to Oswego signs will hightlight the local service organizations and include the city’s website.
The report provides the navigation community, transportation planners, government policy makers and the general public with “a realistic assessment of the contributions made by the Great Lakes-Seaway system to the federal, state/provincial, and local economies.”
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The change would put the city on the same schedule as everybody else. It would also help city officials create a more accurate spending plan, the council president said. It would also alleviate the possibility of department heads coming to the council later in the year for budgetary transfers.
A resolution to initiate a request for proposals to explore alternatives for home health care in the county was sent back to the committee level at this month’s legislature meeting. Legislators have several questions about how this will impact the county’s employees and budget. New York State is no longer providing state aid reimbursements to counties for their Certified Home Health Agency (CHHA) and Long Term Care (LTC) programs.
Voters will note the change for the first time in the general elections taking place on Nov. 8, at which time the term “Councilor” will appear on the ballot.
The deadly illness Eastern Equine Encephalitis took its ultimate toll on Aug. 14. Maggie Sue Glenister Wilcox, a five-year-old girl from New Haven died from the mosquito-borne disease. In an effort to prevent this tragedy from being repeated, local and state officials gathered in the board room at the Oswego Education Center today for a three-hour forum on finding better ways to combat EEE.
Local and state officials gather in Oswego this morning for a forum on finding better ways to combat Eastern Equine Encephalitis.
State Senator Patty Ritchie (R-Oswegatchie) organized the discussion after this summer’s large-scale outbreak of the disease claimed the life of a 4 year old girl from New Haven.
“I don’t want any other family to have to go through what Maggie Wilcox’s family has gone through,” Ritchie said in a September interview.
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