Opinion

Thursday night (2/18) in the city of Fulton the mayor of Fulton along with the Greater Oswego/Fulton Chamber of Commerce hosted a roundtable meeting about economic development in the city of Fulton. I couldn’t help but notice the absence of anyone from the Oswego County IDA (the nine members of the Industrial Development Agency), any of the seven member Oswego County legislature’s EDP (Economic Development & Planning Committee), or any of the eight members of the Economic Development & Poverty Reduction Task Force.

According to ABC and several other networks, people in Flint, Mich., are charged $864 a year for water-sewer usage. This is double the national average. Last year, Oswego city charged a majority of its residents $888.

There has been some up-roar over my suggestion that it may be time to dissolve the city we all grew up in and love. Here are some of the numbers and facts and opinion.

I’m sure most of you have read or heard on the street about my thoughts about dissolving the city we all love. The choice to do this will not be up to me or to six elected officials at city hall.

I’m sure most of you that read my letters and understand them will remember my letter entitled: New Year but the same old Games. In that letter the majority caucus called a quarterback sneak appointing an interim director of central services giving that person a $5,000 raise.

First to go under the microscope is Onondaga County. Just south of us. Let’s look at the numbers for Onondaga County:

Conflict of Interest: A situation in which a person is in a position to derive personal benefit from actions or decisions made in their official capacity. One must ask if that is the case in the treasurer’s office. We have a situation where an elected official is the head of a department that reports to the County Legislature.

A snowball gets bigger and bigger the more you roll it around in the snow. The county’s snowball started back when a county treasurer retired and appointed a successor. Now that in itself wouldn’t have been a problem, but the fact that the appointee may or may not have a high school diploma is questionable.

So by now most of you have heard that the new U-Haul that is being developed (in the old Nestle Building 30) was heavily vandalized last evening and has suffered damage. Between this, and other incidents harmful to the quality of life of the community that appear to be on the uptick, it is time something more was done.