During a recent Common Council meeting a 6th grader stepped to the podium during the public session to ask the mayor of Fulton about the ongoing efforts to clean up Lake Neatahwanta, and what young people can do to help. Brandon Grow, a 6th grader at Volney Elementary School, is a Boy Scout with Troop #780 in Hannibal, and he is working to earn the highest achievement in Scouts: the rank of Eagle.
Stormwater from Oswego’s west side sewer will be redirected to bioswales and tree plantings on State Route 48/ West First Street with a grant awarded by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for a Water Quality Improvement Program. The city of Oswego Community Development Office applied for the grant in December 2013. Joseph Martens, commissioner of New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation, congratulated Mayor Tom Gillen for the project award of $330,000 for the $414,312 project last week.
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 November 26 and will end on November 30.
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The new budget contains a property tax hike of about 1.25 percent. It doesn’t contain any layoffs or any loss of services to city residents. “The economy of the city of Oswego has begun to emerge from the overall financial malaise experienced throughout the country,” the mayor said.
The city of Fulton Common Council will receive the mayor’s 2015 budget proposal on Tuesday Dec. 9 after a public hearing on the document.
Councilors and Mayor Ronald Woodward met on Nov. 20 for a budget workshop that was open to the public. The mayor and Councilor Tom Kenyon said the following day the session was extremely productive, leaving only a narrow budget gap to close between expenses and revenue.
With I-90 reopened, Oswego County’s trucks and manpower ready to return home, and The Buffalo News reporting a ‘Shovel Brigade Mob’ has descended on South Buffalo neighborhoods, Oswego County Emergency Management Director Dale Currier described the government mobilization process in a situation like last week’s fatal snowstorm.
County Legislator Marie Schadt said on Friday that she contacted every emergency agency she could think of after the brunt of the storm Wednesday because she is worried about her 67-year-old friend in Orchard Park, one of the areas hardest hit by the pre-winter storm.
Oswego County is lending some of its snow removal expertise and equipment to the city of Buffalo to assist in the removal of this week’s massive lake effect snowfall. County Legislature Chairman Kevin Gardner approved a request from the State Office of Emergency Management Thursday afternoon for additional snow removal assistance. “We’re used to these types of events and are certainly happy to help them out,” said Chairman Gardner.
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