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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD
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Volume 206, No. 19
The Freeman’s JournalCCS teachers’ Pow-ers and Gigliotti’s students excelled.
CCS Nets Top ScoresIn Physics, Geometry
SUNY-O, Hartwick Pick7 Sites For Start-Up NY
The Freeman’s JournalRetiring Bassett Presi-dent/CEO Bill Streck and wife Karen ac-cept good wishes after he spoke to his final Friends of Bassett breakfast Friday, May 2/SEE APPRECIATION, A4
Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalKendall Lifgren’s hummingbird won one of 18 awards to students at the 2014 CCS Student Art Show that opened Friday, May 2, and may be view at the CCA through the 25th/DETAILS, A2
Powers, Gigliotti’s Students 100% On Regents
‘Ode To Joy’ CelebratedWith Film, Lecture, Song
CCS ARTISTS SHINEAnticipatingWin, LibraryFunds Halved
EntrepreneurialCenter AmongTax-Free Plans
May 20 Ballot Item SeekingTo Split Costs With 2 Towns
A two-li-brary col-laborationworks can work, Water-ville Library Director Jeff Reynoldsreports.
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COOPERSTOWN
Apublic hearing on CCS’ proposed 2014-15 budget is at
6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, in the junior/senior high school budget.
The total budget is $17.75 million, a 2.8 percent or $50,000 increase over this year’s budget of $17.25 mil-lion.
Polls will be open 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, where the public will vote on the document and on four candidates -- Tim Hayes, David Petri, Jean Schifano, and Theresa Russo, for two school board vacancies.
To review the proposed budget, visit
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INTO HISTORY: The Farmers’ Museum is ac-cepting applications for this summer’s Young Interpreter program. Boys and girls, ages 12 to 14 on May 1, are invited to apply by May 15.Call Gwen Miner, 547-1457, or e-mail 547-1457.
BOOKSIGNING: Homer Osterhoudt will be au-tographing copies of his “Baseball Fantography,” 9:30-11:10 a.m. Saturday,
Public HearingOn CCS BudgetScheduled 5/14
By JIM KEVLIN
COOPERSTOWN
In the increasingly num-bers-focused world of public education, the CCS
board had subscribed the School Meter, a tool devel-oped by the Putnam/North-west Westchester BOCES to help make sense of all the data.
The other day, the sub-Please See SCORES, A7
By JIM KEVLIN
ONEONTA
It looks like Otsego County may soon be ready to fully partici-pate in Governor Cuomo’s plan
to use higher edu-cation to attract new business and industry to revive Upstate New York’s long-flag-ging economy.
SUNY Oneonta has identified six sites, and Hartwick College, a seventh – and the biggest: 24 level acres atop Oyaron Hill – that would qualify for the program.
Sites identified in SUNY’s ap-plication include “the Susquehanna Regional Business Center for Entrepreneurship” on the fifth floor of 189 Main St., where the county’s “single point of contact” Sandy Mathes moved the county IDA (Industrial Development Agency) as of Monday, May 5.
The center for entrepreneurship is envisioned as a collaboration
Please See START-UP, A8
To visit the Start-Up NY web-site, follow the link from WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
Celebrate Mother’s Day!FOR IDEAS TO HONOR YOUR MOM ON HER SPECIAL DAY, SEE PAGES A2, 3 & 7
By JIM KEVLIN
COOPERSTOWN
The Village Library of Cooperstown is performing without a safety net in ask-
ing CCS resi-dents to assume responsibilityfor “proportion-ate” funding the library budget.
At the request of the Vil-lage Library’s board, none of the $90,000 annual alloca-tion it received from the Village Board has been included in the 2014-15 village budget, accord-ing to Mayor Jeff Katz.
If voters – all school district residents are eli-gible – approve the new arrange-ment when they go to the polls 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, the second-half $45,000 needed in the second half will be paid through the school tax levy.
Please See LIBRARY, A7
COOPERSTOWN
It’s film. It’s a Q&A with the film’s producer.
In between, it’s a performance of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” by singers who simply want to participate.(E-mail tarr.wager@gmail.
com or [email protected])by week’s end.)
“It’s a live perfor-mance on the stage where the opera was born,” said Kate Roth Knull,
referring to CCS’ Sterling Auditorium, where the
Please See ODE, A6
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2014 A-2 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL LOCALS
Herkimer CollegeSociety Inducts
Marcus Oestman
COOPERSTOWN
Marcus Oestman of Cooperstown was among seven
Otsego County students inducted into Herkimer College’s Upsilon Epsilon Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society.
The others are Colleen Byam and Benjamin Mox-ley, both of Oneonta; Sarah Calchi of Portlandville, Richard Colby of Fly Creek, Tyler Hall of West Edmeston and Rebecca Young of Richfield Springs.
The Cooperstown Veterans’ Club is again support-ing Our Community Salutes of Central New York, which Saturday, May 21, will recognize 96 new enlistees in the Armed Forces at a ceremony at 1 p.m. at the General Herkimer Homestead. Holding the banner are, from left, Teriann Sammis, VFW Commander Doug Walker and Jim Bridger. Legion Commander Mike Boyson was absent from the photo, but all are supporting the Otsego County enlistees, who will be joined by others from Her-kImer, Oneida, Schoharie, Delaware and Chenango counties at the recognition ceremony.
26 Win Awards At Annual CCS Art ShowCOOPERSTOWN
Eighteen students received special recognition and
eight honorable mention at CCS’ 2014 Art Show, which opened to a capacity crowd Friday, May 2, at a Cooperstown Art Associa-tion reception at 22 Main.
The 18 elementary and ju-nior and senior high school students were: Katelyn Amsden, Catherine Borg-strom, Amber Brown, Krista Curpier, Emmy Dolan, Emily Greenberg, Chris-tina Grigoli, Elle Kenyon, Max Koffer, Nick Lawson, Kendall Lifgren, Brit-tany Marino, Maria Miller, Rebecca Morosko, Katlyn Palmatier, Jeremiah Parr, Margaret Risenfeld, Andrew von Tsurikov.
The junior and senior high students received $50 each and the elementary stu-dents $25 from the Friends of Music & Art, which orga-nizes the annual show.
Receiving honorable mention were Ben Carentz, Crystal Castle, Makayla Denninger, Joseph Longhi, Marykate Murphy, Stuart Nelson, Michelle Zhang and Michael Zhou.
The art show, which
includes masks, photo-graphs, banners, ceramics, landscapes, still lifes, home furnishings, books repur-posed in multiple ways and a Phoenix on the verge of flight, is open through May 25 on the upstairs ballroom at Village Hall.
For more information on FOMA contact, Nancy Tarr Wager at 301-351-4232 or [email protected].
Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalCCS art teacher Kristin Karasek, right, discuss-es an entry in CCS’ 2014 Art Show with artist Andrea House, Springfield, during the opening reception Friday, May 2, at the Cooperstown Art Association.
COOPERSTOWN VETS TO HONOR ENLISTEES Sarah MancusoWins Gold AwardFrom Girl ScoutsCHERRY VALLEY
Sarah Mancuso of Cherry Valley was one of 10 honorees in the
NYPENN Pathways Council this year to earn the Gold Award, the highest award a Girl Scout can earn.
The girls were recog-nized at a Young Wom-en of Distinc-tion reception and luncheon Saturday, May 3, at Onondaga Community College, Syracuse. OCC President Casey Crabill was keynote speaker.
Sarah is a 2013 graduate of Cherry Valley-Springfield High School and cur-rently a freshman at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music. For her project she created a music camp, where she taught attendees about instruments and music from around the world.
Mancuso
NEW ROTARIANS: Gene Marra, proprietor of the Cooperstown Distillery, and Danielle Newell, NYSHA education director, were in-ducted into the Cooperstown Rotary Club Tuesday, May 6. Ten new members have joined this year, club Presi-dent Jeff Katz reported.
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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2014 A-2 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL LOCALS
Herkimer CollegeSociety Inducts
Marcus Oestman
COOPERSTOWN
Marcus Oestman of Cooperstown was among seven
Otsego County students inducted into Herkimer College’s Upsilon Epsilon Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society.
The others are Colleen Byam and Benjamin Mox-ley, both of Oneonta; Sarah Calchi of Portlandville, Richard Colby of Fly Creek, Tyler Hall of West Edmeston and Rebecca Young of Richfield Springs.
The Cooperstown Veterans’ Club is again support-ing Our Community Salutes of Central New York, which Saturday, May 21, will recognize 96 new enlistees in the Armed Forces at a ceremony at 1 p.m. at the General Herkimer Homestead. Holding the banner are, from left, Teriann Sammis, VFW Commander Doug Walker and Jim Bridger. Legion Commander Mike Boyson was absent from the photo, but all are supporting the Otsego County enlistees, who will be joined by others from Her-kImer, Oneida, Schoharie, Delaware and Chenango counties at the recognition ceremony.
26 Win Awards At Annual CCS Art ShowCOOPERSTOWN
Eighteen students received special recognition and
eight honorable mention at CCS’ 2014 Art Show, which opened to a capacity crowd Friday, May 2, at a Cooperstown Art Associa-tion reception at 22 Main.
The 18 elementary and ju-nior and senior high school students were: Katelyn Amsden, Catherine Borg-strom, Amber Brown, Krista Curpier, Emmy Dolan, Emily Greenberg, Chris-tina Grigoli, Elle Kenyon, Max Koffer, Nick Lawson, Kendall Lifgren, Brit-tany Marino, Maria Miller, Rebecca Morosko, Katlyn Palmatier, Jeremiah Parr, Margaret Risenfeld, Andrew von Tsurikov.
The junior and senior high students received $50 each and the elementary stu-dents $25 from the Friends of Music & Art, which orga-nizes the annual show.
Receiving honorable mention were Ben Carentz, Crystal Castle, Makayla Denninger, Joseph Longhi, Marykate Murphy, Stuart Nelson, Michelle Zhang and Michael Zhou.
The art show, which
includes masks, photo-graphs, banners, ceramics, landscapes, still lifes, home furnishings, books repur-posed in multiple ways and a Phoenix on the verge of flight, is open through May 25 on the upstairs ballroom at Village Hall.
For more information on FOMA contact, Nancy Tarr Wager at 301-351-4232 or [email protected].
Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalCCS art teacher Kristin Karasek, right, discuss-es an entry in CCS’ 2014 Art Show with artist Andrea House, Springfield, during the opening reception Friday, May 2, at the Cooperstown Art Association.
COOPERSTOWN VETS TO HONOR ENLISTEES Sarah MancusoWins Gold AwardFrom Girl ScoutsCHERRY VALLEY
Sarah Mancuso of Cherry Valley was one of 10 honorees in the
NYPENN Pathways Council this year to earn the Gold Award, the highest award a Girl Scout can earn.
The girls were recog-nized at a Young Wom-en of Distinc-tion reception and luncheon Saturday, May 3, at Onondaga Community College, Syracuse. OCC President Casey Crabill was keynote speaker.
Sarah is a 2013 graduate of Cherry Valley-Springfield High School and cur-rently a freshman at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music. For her project she created a music camp, where she taught attendees about instruments and music from around the world.
Mancuso
NEW ROTARIANS: Gene Marra, proprietor of the Cooperstown Distillery, and Danielle Newell, NYSHA education director, were in-ducted into the Cooperstown Rotary Club Tuesday, May 6. Ten new members have joined this year, club Presi-dent Jeff Katz reported.
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By TERESA WINCHESTER
ONEONTA
What can economic developmentcouncils and
state government do to help Otsego County’s communi-ties achieve vibrant futures?
To find the answer, more than 80 people – municipal officials, school superinten-dents and business leaders – gathered at the Foothills Performing Arts Center Tuesday, May 5.
The first session featured Dede Scozzafava, New York deputy secretary of state for local government.
In the second, Carolyn Lewis, SUNY Oneonta economic-developmentcoordinator, and Amsterdam Mayor Ann Thane talked about the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic De-
velopmentCommis-sion. Both are mem-bers.
Accord-ing to DOS’ Mark Patti-son, direc-tor of local governmentservices and
former Troy mayor, local governments are challenged to maintain local identity while still delivering servic-es. Ways of doing this may include consolidation or dissolution of municipalities or of school, fire or library districts. Shared services is another possible route.
DOS grants are available to study these options, he said, and cited four received by Otsego County govern-ments so far:
• Otsego County gov-ernment has received two
grants –$36,000 for a highway asset management program and another to de-sign an emergency services telecommunications system. The first grant should sav-ings $12,600; the second, $347,000.
• The Milford and Lau-rens central school districtsreceived a grant to expand the Career Opportunities in Rural Education Initiative (CORE) to create a consoli-dated Biomedical Science Curriculum. The $36,299
saved $97,000.• The Village of Cherry
Valley received a $22,770 grant to identify issues, costs and benefits of village govern-ment dissolution and consolidation with the town.
Despite the many opportuni-ties presented by the DOS, a degree of frustration with obtaining grants was expressed by some in atten-dance.
“The DOS is more of an impediment than a help,” stated Milford Central School District SuperintendentPeter Livshin.
He elaborated. “There is a mental block to small rural counties not on the I-90 corridor. We don’t meet a lot of the criteria for grants even though we need them. There is a population outside the urban areas of the state.”
County Treasurer Dan Crowell had a more positive take on the DOS presen-tation: “Good things are emerging – creative solu-tions balanced by insights into the challenges of imple-mentation,” he said.
County Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, float-ed ideas of her own, seeing possible benefits of merger in the Office of the Aging: “Why do we need a dietitian for every county?” The hard
part is changing mindsets, she said.
At the ses-sions’ end, DOS commu-nity coordinator Lynne Mahoney was identified as the contact. She may be reached at [email protected].
The event was sponsored by the Bank of Cooperstown and organize by the pro-business groups GO-EDC and Citizen Voices.
Scozzafava
Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s JournalMilford School Superintendent Peter Livshin, left, questions the value of DOS aid received so far. Listening at right are, from left, Jamie Reynolds, NBT Bank regional executive and Oneonta school board chair; ARC Sales Manager Kevin Scott; Atty. Andrew Stammel, an Oneonta Town Board mem-ber, and Lamont Engineerings’ Jody Serowski (Lamont Engineering). Back right is Springfield Town Supervisor Bill Elsey.
County Rep. Ed Lentz, D-Gar-rattsville, fore-ground, and county Treasur-er Dan Crowell ponder what they’re hearing.
Feeling Crunch, Local Officials, Superintendents Listen To What State May OfferTHURSDAY-FRIDAY, MAY 8-9, 2014
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Within hours of hosting the Joint Senate Task Force on Heroin & Opi-
oid Addiction Monday, April 28, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, sent in the firefighters.
Thursday, May 1, he announced an overdose-prevention training class for a few days later, Wednes-day, May 7, at Fox Hospital. Free and open to the public, the session aimed to train people to admin-ister Naxolone or Narcan, which can revive people in the throes of overdosing.
•This is not theoretical, as was
dramatized in the task force’s lo-cal hearing, where Deb France of Oneonta bravely shared the story of her son, Jeremy, who became hooked on heroin after a dentist prescribed a painkiller on pulling the boy’s wisdom teeth.
Jeremy was jailed for theft at 18, attempted suicide, was com-mitted to a psychiatric ward and underwent rehab twice. “He’s a heroin addict; cut him loose,” his parents were told, but they could not. Nonetheless, on April 13, 2012, a week after his 23rd birthday, “one month after he got out of jail and one week after his 23rd birthday, my son successfully committed suicide,” Mrs. France reported.
The audience at the hearing gasped as one. And who, read-ing reporter Libby Cudmore’s account, didn’t feel a sharp pang of sympathy for the family’s loss
and admiration for Mrs. France’s sharing of a story that needs to be told?
As with Mrs. France, so with Milea Buffo, a young woman whose Oxycodone prescription led to addiction. These brave citizens deserve everyone’s commenda-tion for sharing their stories, for personalizing a scary problem we want to objectify and file away.
•Yet, the arrival of heroin among
us, a wolf among the one-time innocents, has been an increasing part of the public consciousness since county Judge Brian Burns raised the alarm to a surprised gathering of well-wishers at his last swearing-in. Heroin, he said on New Year’s Day 2011 in sedate Courtroom #1 of the county court-house, “is going to be the biggest problem in the next 10 years.”
Regrettably, he was right. Barely two or three weeks go
by without significant busts and arrests. District Attorney John Muehl and county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr., have been vigorous-ly attacking the heartless peddling of an enslaving substance.
As chilling as Mrs. France and Ms. Buffo’s accounts to the task force was Devlin’s, who said 60 percent of his inmates in the coun-ty jail are addicted to something.And he has no money or programs to help them combat it.
•This problem is not confined to
our Otsego County. The wolf is ranging the nation. The Centers for Disease Control & Preven-tion has reported 11 year-to-year increases in drug-overdose deaths, from 4,030 in 1999 to 38,329, almost 10 times greater. This is not progress.
In March, President Obama, as is his tendency in everything, called for a “balanced approach” to combating the scourge. “By boosting community-based prevention, expanding treatment, strengthening law enforcement and working collaboratively with our global partners, we will reduce drug use and the great damage it causes our communities.”
That kind of even-handed language from our no-drama president belies the urgency of the problem. People are dying by the tens of thousands annually, and their families irremediably stricken.
With a trillion dollars spent since 1972 on the so-called War on Drugs, we yearn for a Leader-In-
Chief to rally us to a cause. But, regrettably, it’s not to be.
•We’re all adults here. We can’t
wait for Washington to come around. We must do what we can.
Senator Seward’s prompt sched-uling of the Noxolone/Narcan training session shows the right kind of urgency: If a house is on fire, you send the fire truck. As an example to others, he planned to undergo the training himself.
It’s emerging that too many people walk out of emergency rooms – and, it seems, dental of-fices – with an Rx for so-called opioids and an insufficient under-standing of their dangers. Doc-tors, nurses and – judging from the local testimony – dentists should be sure they are taking the neces-sary time to instruct their patients. And if two or three pills will suf-fice, don’t prescribe six or eight.
The Seward task force, the senator said in an interview, is taking it further. It plans to have a comprehensive proposal ready to be introduced when the state Legislature goes back into session June 1, with the goal of enactment by the end the session, which may wrap up by the month’s end.
Hearing Devlin’s testimony,
Seward concluded “we just can’t arrest our way through this prob-lem.” Treatment needs to be avail-able in jail. Drug courts – Judge Burns has pioneered them lo-cally – may have to be expanded.Now, only suspects charged with felonies can participate; perhaps that should be lowered to include misdemeanors, Seward said.
As chairman of the Senate Insurance Committee, Seward has been troubled by stories of parents bringing sons and daughters to rehab centers, only to be told their insurance doesn’t cover residential treatment; they are referred back to less-expensive (and less-in-tense) outpatient counseling.Physicians should be determining the intensity of treatment, not an actuary back at headquarters.
•It sounds like the Seward task
force intends to take the problem apart and go after the pieces one by one, a very promising ap-proach. Judge Burns is on the job. And Muehl and Devlin are too, seeking to pinch off the suppliers ferrying back and forth from New York City one by one.
With both parents working these days, children are often left alone evenings at a time, and mischief can result. Please, parents, hold your children close.
Society can solve problems.Everyone wears seatbelts. Smok-ing is in decline. With focus and determination, we can push the wolf, farther ever farther, back into the woods. Everyone has a role; let’s each of us play ours.
Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalBill Streck acknowledges one of several standing ovations he received when speaking to the Friends of Bassett for the last time Friday, May 2. Streck, Bassett president/CEO for 30 years, is retiring July 1.
Ian Austin/The Freeman’s JournalAs Senator Seward listens intently, Justin Thalheimer, Otsego County Chemical Dependency program man-ager, voices his concerns at heroin’s local inroads.
In raising the national alarm on heroin March 10, Attorney General Eric Holder referred
people to an award-winning doc-umentary, “The Opiate Effect.” To view, follow the link from
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LETTERS
To the Editor:I think the public should be made
aware of the dangerous inadequacy of The Manor’s discharge practices.
Recently, an extremely elderly pa-tient, ambulatory with only a walker, was discharged to the conditions shown in the forwarded pictures.
A complaint to the Director of The Manor received no reply. The State Department of Health refused to investigate beyond stating that the “documentation” was in place.
Both The Manor and the state Health Department, charged with responsibility, refuse discussion and take refuge behind supposed “privacy” considerations, but to my certain knowledge no formal assess-ment of this patient’s competence was
undertaken, and no assessment of her home was made at the time of discharge.
She was simply placed in the lobby at 10 a.m. and a neighbor, who had refused further responsi-bility, was contacted to come and get her. The neighbor was told that her bed had been given away.
The Manor is obliged to dis-charge patients to a safe environ-ment, whether or not the patient is entirely realistic or unrealistic as to what that constitutes. This was a miserable failure of administra-tive responsibility, and should be addressed with investigation and oversight.
MARY ANNE WHELAN, MDCooperstown
A patient was discharged to this home in disarray, Dr. Whelan says.
In Discharging Patient, Otsego Manor Falls Short
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Chilling Testimony To Heroin Task Force Brings Crisis Home
Editor’s Notes: Bassett Healthcare Vice President/COO Bertine McKenna delivered these remarks in praise of Dr. Bill Streck Friday, May 2, in at the packed Otesaga ballroom, where the retiring 30-year presi-dent/CEO of the nine-county system was addressing The Friends of Bassett for the last time. Streck is retiring July 1.
Irecently spoke with a reporter devel-oping a story on Dr. Streck. She had already spoken with several people and
seemed exhausted from all the accolades she had heard and the amount of work in front of her to sort through his contribu-tions.
There’s the health network he’s built over 5,000 square miles, the Columbia-Bassett Medical School Program, a partnership with area colleges to address the nursing short-age, health plans he’s developed, the Bassett Heart Care Institute, a medical staff of over 400, and he has led Bassett to its current position as number 48 among the top 100 integrated health care networks in the coun-try – just to name a few. The list is endless.
Then the reporter asked me something very important. She asked for one unique thing I would leave her with about Dr. Streck. I realized the most important point hadn’t been fully explained yet. I said to her, “We all know what he has done for the people and health care in this region. But
perhaps what people don’t fully appreciate is that he is a unique leader of people. He knows those who work with him very well. He knows their strengths and the things
they need to improve. He understands we all have our individual attributes. He knows how each person brings value to the work place, and he often knows their family and a
special fact about their life.”With an amazingly robust sense of hu-
mor, quick wit and great humanity, he has brought out the best in each of us. He cre-ated an organization whose very name has a beating heart. By deciding “this would be good for Bassett or this would not be good for Bassett,” he inspired people to recali-brate their approach and to work together to make this living, breathing organism called Bassett successful.
When things don’t go perfectly, he has al-ways been the first to listen, understand and move forward. When things go perfectly, he praises others. When things are mundane, he creates a lively conversation and inspires us to think differently. When we have had to change dramatically, and didn’t necessarily want to, he created the Petri dish for us to jump in and grow.
So the accolades must include recogni-tion of the fact that Dr. Streck has guided over 3,000 people on an amazing journey that was his vision for the network we are today. He has done this as a compassionate, smart and understanding leader who loves to laugh, to work and to make sure the peo-ple who come to work every day know that he understands their value. That’s who he is as a leader, as a man and as a visionary.
He loves Bassett and he loves its people, and that won’t stop when he walks out the door on the last day of his 30 year tenure.
WILLIAM F. STRECK, M.D., ‘Guide On An Amazing Journey’
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2014A-4 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL
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Within hours of hosting the Joint Senate Task Force on Heroin & Opi-
oid Addiction Monday, April 28, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, sent in the firefighters.
Thursday, May 1, he announced an overdose-prevention training class for a few days later, Wednes-day, May 7, at Fox Hospital. Free and open to the public, the session aimed to train people to admin-ister Naxolone or Narcan, which can revive people in the throes of overdosing.
•This is not theoretical, as was
dramatized in the task force’s lo-cal hearing, where Deb France of Oneonta bravely shared the story of her son, Jeremy, who became hooked on heroin after a dentist prescribed a painkiller on pulling the boy’s wisdom teeth.
Jeremy was jailed for theft at 18, attempted suicide, was com-mitted to a psychiatric ward and underwent rehab twice. “He’s a heroin addict; cut him loose,” his parents were told, but they could not. Nonetheless, on April 13, 2012, a week after his 23rd birthday, “one month after he got out of jail and one week after his 23rd birthday, my son successfully committed suicide,” Mrs. France reported.
The audience at the hearing gasped as one. And who, read-ing reporter Libby Cudmore’s account, didn’t feel a sharp pang of sympathy for the family’s loss
and admiration for Mrs. France’s sharing of a story that needs to be told?
As with Mrs. France, so with Milea Buffo, a young woman whose Oxycodone prescription led to addiction. These brave citizens deserve everyone’s commenda-tion for sharing their stories, for personalizing a scary problem we want to objectify and file away.
•Yet, the arrival of heroin among
us, a wolf among the one-time innocents, has been an increasing part of the public consciousness since county Judge Brian Burns raised the alarm to a surprised gathering of well-wishers at his last swearing-in. Heroin, he said on New Year’s Day 2011 in sedate Courtroom #1 of the county court-house, “is going to be the biggest problem in the next 10 years.”
Regrettably, he was right. Barely two or three weeks go
by without significant busts and arrests. District Attorney John Muehl and county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr., have been vigorous-ly attacking the heartless peddling of an enslaving substance.
As chilling as Mrs. France and Ms. Buffo’s accounts to the task force was Devlin’s, who said 60 percent of his inmates in the coun-ty jail are addicted to something.And he has no money or programs to help them combat it.
•This problem is not confined to
our Otsego County. The wolf is ranging the nation. The Centers for Disease Control & Preven-tion has reported 11 year-to-year increases in drug-overdose deaths, from 4,030 in 1999 to 38,329, almost 10 times greater. This is not progress.
In March, President Obama, as is his tendency in everything, called for a “balanced approach” to combating the scourge. “By boosting community-based prevention, expanding treatment, strengthening law enforcement and working collaboratively with our global partners, we will reduce drug use and the great damage it causes our communities.”
That kind of even-handed language from our no-drama president belies the urgency of the problem. People are dying by the tens of thousands annually, and their families irremediably stricken.
With a trillion dollars spent since 1972 on the so-called War on Drugs, we yearn for a Leader-In-
Chief to rally us to a cause. But, regrettably, it’s not to be.
•We’re all adults here. We can’t
wait for Washington to come around. We must do what we can.
Senator Seward’s prompt sched-uling of the Noxolone/Narcan training session shows the right kind of urgency: If a house is on fire, you send the fire truck. As an example to others, he planned to undergo the training himself.
It’s emerging that too many people walk out of emergency rooms – and, it seems, dental of-fices – with an Rx for so-called opioids and an insufficient under-standing of their dangers. Doc-tors, nurses and – judging from the local testimony – dentists should be sure they are taking the neces-sary time to instruct their patients. And if two or three pills will suf-fice, don’t prescribe six or eight.
The Seward task force, the senator said in an interview, is taking it further. It plans to have a comprehensive proposal ready to be introduced when the state Legislature goes back into session June 1, with the goal of enactment by the end the session, which may wrap up by the month’s end.
Hearing Devlin’s testimony,
Seward concluded “we just can’t arrest our way through this prob-lem.” Treatment needs to be avail-able in jail. Drug courts – Judge Burns has pioneered them lo-cally – may have to be expanded.Now, only suspects charged with felonies can participate; perhaps that should be lowered to include misdemeanors, Seward said.
As chairman of the Senate Insurance Committee, Seward has been troubled by stories of parents bringing sons and daughters to rehab centers, only to be told their insurance doesn’t cover residential treatment; they are referred back to less-expensive (and less-in-tense) outpatient counseling.Physicians should be determining the intensity of treatment, not an actuary back at headquarters.
•It sounds like the Seward task
force intends to take the problem apart and go after the pieces one by one, a very promising ap-proach. Judge Burns is on the job. And Muehl and Devlin are too, seeking to pinch off the suppliers ferrying back and forth from New York City one by one.
With both parents working these days, children are often left alone evenings at a time, and mischief can result. Please, parents, hold your children close.
Society can solve problems.Everyone wears seatbelts. Smok-ing is in decline. With focus and determination, we can push the wolf, farther ever farther, back into the woods. Everyone has a role; let’s each of us play ours.
Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalBill Streck acknowledges one of several standing ovations he received when speaking to the Friends of Bassett for the last time Friday, May 2. Streck, Bassett president/CEO for 30 years, is retiring July 1.
Ian Austin/The Freeman’s JournalAs Senator Seward listens intently, Justin Thalheimer, Otsego County Chemical Dependency program man-ager, voices his concerns at heroin’s local inroads.
In raising the national alarm on heroin March 10, Attorney General Eric Holder referred
people to an award-winning doc-umentary, “The Opiate Effect.” To view, follow the link from
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LETTERS
To the Editor:I think the public should be made
aware of the dangerous inadequacy of The Manor’s discharge practices.
Recently, an extremely elderly pa-tient, ambulatory with only a walker, was discharged to the conditions shown in the forwarded pictures.
A complaint to the Director of The Manor received no reply. The State Department of Health refused to investigate beyond stating that the “documentation” was in place.
Both The Manor and the state Health Department, charged with responsibility, refuse discussion and take refuge behind supposed “privacy” considerations, but to my certain knowledge no formal assess-ment of this patient’s competence was
undertaken, and no assessment of her home was made at the time of discharge.
She was simply placed in the lobby at 10 a.m. and a neighbor, who had refused further responsi-bility, was contacted to come and get her. The neighbor was told that her bed had been given away.
The Manor is obliged to dis-charge patients to a safe environ-ment, whether or not the patient is entirely realistic or unrealistic as to what that constitutes. This was a miserable failure of administra-tive responsibility, and should be addressed with investigation and oversight.
MARY ANNE WHELAN, MDCooperstown
A patient was discharged to this home in disarray, Dr. Whelan says.
In Discharging Patient, Otsego Manor Falls Short
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Chilling Testimony To Heroin Task Force Brings Crisis Home
Editor’s Notes: Bassett Healthcare Vice President/COO Bertine McKenna delivered these remarks in praise of Dr. Bill Streck Friday, May 2, in at the packed Otesaga ballroom, where the retiring 30-year presi-dent/CEO of the nine-county system was addressing The Friends of Bassett for the last time. Streck is retiring July 1.
Irecently spoke with a reporter devel-oping a story on Dr. Streck. She had already spoken with several people and
seemed exhausted from all the accolades she had heard and the amount of work in front of her to sort through his contribu-tions.
There’s the health network he’s built over 5,000 square miles, the Columbia-Bassett Medical School Program, a partnership with area colleges to address the nursing short-age, health plans he’s developed, the Bassett Heart Care Institute, a medical staff of over 400, and he has led Bassett to its current position as number 48 among the top 100 integrated health care networks in the coun-try – just to name a few. The list is endless.
Then the reporter asked me something very important. She asked for one unique thing I would leave her with about Dr. Streck. I realized the most important point hadn’t been fully explained yet. I said to her, “We all know what he has done for the people and health care in this region. But
perhaps what people don’t fully appreciate is that he is a unique leader of people. He knows those who work with him very well. He knows their strengths and the things
they need to improve. He understands we all have our individual attributes. He knows how each person brings value to the work place, and he often knows their family and a
special fact about their life.”With an amazingly robust sense of hu-
mor, quick wit and great humanity, he has brought out the best in each of us. He cre-ated an organization whose very name has a beating heart. By deciding “this would be good for Bassett or this would not be good for Bassett,” he inspired people to recali-brate their approach and to work together to make this living, breathing organism called Bassett successful.
When things don’t go perfectly, he has al-ways been the first to listen, understand and move forward. When things go perfectly, he praises others. When things are mundane, he creates a lively conversation and inspires us to think differently. When we have had to change dramatically, and didn’t necessarily want to, he created the Petri dish for us to jump in and grow.
So the accolades must include recogni-tion of the fact that Dr. Streck has guided over 3,000 people on an amazing journey that was his vision for the network we are today. He has done this as a compassionate, smart and understanding leader who loves to laugh, to work and to make sure the peo-ple who come to work every day know that he understands their value. That’s who he is as a leader, as a man and as a visionary.
He loves Bassett and he loves its people, and that won’t stop when he walks out the door on the last day of his 30 year tenure.
WILLIAM F. STRECK, M.D., ‘Guide On An Amazing Journey’
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2014
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25 YEARS AGO
May 10, 1989
200 YEARS AGOMarried – on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. John
Smith, Samuel Starkweather, Esq., Attorney at Law, to Miss Marcia Averill, daughter of James Averill, Jun. Esq., all of this village. Village Law – Resolved, That no person shall remove any of the fire hooks, ropes or ladders belonging to the Trustees of this village, from the place where they are deposited, without the consent of the President of the village, under the penalty of one dollar for every offence,
May 7, 1814
175 YEARS AGOSchool District Libraries – This subject is engrossing the
attention of the public, and we are glad to find so much in-terest manifested as is apparent in this county. The selection of books ought to be made with good judgment, embracing mainly History, Travels, and Biography. Care too should be observed in regard to the binding, for light covers will soon fail and the books prove nearly valueless with but compara-tively little use. One difficulty with the Common School Li-brary is that the bindings are not sufficiently strong enough to endure any length of time: Besides, we do not think the matter of which it is composed preferable to a selection which may be made at the bookstores. With this impression, a day or two since, we looked over the catalogue of the Ms-srs. Phinneys, and examined many of their books, satisfying ourselves that libraries may be selected from their store of as varied and useful a character, and considering the bind-ing and quantity of matter in the volumes, at a cheaper rate, than to purchase of the Harpers in New York. Let those interested examine for themselves.
May 6, 1839
150 YEARS AGOExcerpts from a letter penned by President Abraham
Lincoln to A.G. Hodges of Frankfort, Kentucky dated April 4, 1864: “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power and break the oath in using the power. I understood too, that in ordinary civil administration, this oath, even forbade me to practically indulge my primary, abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery. I had publicly declared this many
times and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judg-ment and feeling on slavery.”
May 6, 1864
125 YEARS AGOChurch and State – What shall be taught? We take the
ground that the education which leaves out all reference to man’s relation to the Unseen world must of necessity be one-sided and incomplete, and that our common schools, from the emasculation of a majority of the text books of all reference to the Supreme Being, and from the increasing deference paid in the course of study to the clamor against everything of a religious character, are to a great extent godless and are not in any sense nurseries of the young. If it be true that high and holy living is not natural to the human heart, and that all which leads the child toward the ideal of a true manhood is the result of careful culture, then the attempt to train the young in a school where all religious teaching is forbidden must be a lamentable failure.
May 10, 1889
100 YEARS AGOIn Our Town – The first cycle car (motorcycle with
sidecar), something entirely new in the buzz-cart line, to make its appearance in Cooperstown was a Pioneer, owned by Ralph Flanders, who took advantage of the good roads Sunday to take a trial spin. Mr. Flanders has the agency. The following notice has been placed in front of one of Cooperstown’s business places where sitters are wont to congregate. “These steps are leased for business purposes and not for the use of sitters and spitters.”
May 6, 1914
75 YEARS AGOThe old Phinney pasture on which Abner Doubleday
marked out the first baseball diamond a hundred years ago on Saturday afternoon was visited by a gathering of over 3,500 people to participate in and witness the initial cer-emonies of Cooperstown’s season-long celebration of the event which has proven such an important factor in Ameri-can life – the invention of the national game. They saw the plot which a century ago was on the western outskirts of Cooperstown, now miraculously transformed into a perfect baseball diamond with a modern grandstand completely equipped with all appurtenances for the comfort and conve-niences of players and spectators and augmented by encircl-ing bleachers with a seating capacity of 10,000. They saw a surface as smooth and green as a new billiard table, and the setting, amidst gardens, lawns and shade trees.
May 10, 1939
50 YEARS AGOWork will commence this week on development of the
vacant lot at the corner of Main and Pioneer Streets into a village park. The Board of Trustees and the Scriven Foun-dation have approved plans for the project, which will be carried out with funds to be raised by public subscription. No tax monies are involved. The work will be done by Neil R. Neilson, Inc., Oneonta contractor.
May 13, 1964
10 YEARS AGOBassett Healthcare’s Junior Volunteer Program is accept-
ing volunteers age 14 and older to donate time to perform important services at the hospital’s Cooperstown facilities during the summer months. The program begins on Tues-day, July 6. Students are asked to donate a total of 50 hours during the seven-week program which concludes on August 20. Parental permission, immunization shots are required.
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To the Editor:Tuesday, April 29, I at-
tended a presentation and discussion at Hartwick Col-lege about the new Start-Up NY program. This program is advertised as an energizer to Upstate economies by encouraging partnerships between SUNY campuses or private colleges and new businesses with “tax free zones.”
The institution essentially provides the land space, the company brings a new enterprise not currently in the area, and the company operates mostly state tax-free for 10 years. Success of a partnership could stimu-late local economies while simultaneously enhancing academic experience.
No matter our orientation on the issue, we seem to unanimously agree that eco-nomic development needs creative ideas. We have two colleges that graduate nearly 2,000 students each year, yet we can only employ a frac-tion of them. No single idea or action will keep the ma-jority of those graduates, but small bites of retention are within reach, and Hartwick College’s eagerness to be a part of Startup New York deserves notice.
One may feel that this program, with its no-tax incentive to new ventures, creates an unfair advantage
against our established businesses. Considering the 10-year expiration on the “tax free zones,” and that the land Hartwick College may use in this program is not currently generating any taxes, this program ultimate-ly creates new tax-generat-ing space.
Furthermore, a condition for approval is the partner-ship must deliver new jobs within the first year, and may not directly compete with already established local businesses. This protects the existing work-places, and the job growth is not net creation, or even relocated from another region, but jobs that did not exist anywhere before the partnership.
This means that within one year of launching a partnership we will have more jobs and more money spent locally than without this program.
It is also worth noting the interesting condition that prospective partners must align in some way with the host institution’s academic mission. This is not about planting businesses Upstate, but building sustainable relationships that produce New York goods and highly sought-after New York col-
lege graduates.Hartwick College’s Presi-
dent Margaret Drugovich has not just identified areas of potential alignment (from agriculture to healthcare re-cords management), but she has already submitted an ap-plication to designate space for future partnerships. This is important, because there is limited space available for private institutions, therefore limited time to get going.
Essentially, Hartwick Col-lege is telling prospective partners, “We’re ready!” President Drugovich’s leadership means Hartwick College is ahead of its peers and poised to raise the cali-ber of its institution and our community.
Start-Up NY has changed the discussion on eco-nomic development in rural New York and Hartwick College’s vision and leader-ship is giving us much to look forward to. Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta have long been significant wheels in the machine of our local economy, but with Start-Up NY they can accel-erate and drive our economy to new speeds – let’s make sure the other wheels are ready to turn with them.
DANIEL BUTTERMANOneonta
To the Editor:As an employee at
Mickey’s Place, situated on the north side of Main Street, Cooperstown, I have been witnessing first hand the sidewalk renovation project. I have been extremely impressed with the cour-tesy, professionalism and cooperation shown by the construction crew.
They have kept the owner and manager of our store informed of their progress and have gone out of their way to make sure customers can access our store. Visi-tors to our store during the busy two week spring break period were quick to make positive com-ments on the progress they were seeing on Main Street.
In this day and age when people are quick to criticize and slow to praise, I wanted to take a moment to thank the construction crew and acknowledge the hard work and vision of our mayor and Village Board. I’m looking forward to the beautiful results!
VICKI GATESCooperstown
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And this evening of activity, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 16, will benefit the Cooperstown Food Pantry renovations, where Knull and many of the other organiz-ers are volunteers.
“It” is the regional premiere of “Fol-lowing the Ninth: In The Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony,” a new film by Kerry Candaele that documents the im-pact of “Ode To Joy” performances world-wide, from Tiananmen Square to the Berlin Wall. Bill Moyers called it “beautiful and powerful.”
The co-producer who will be taking questions is Greg Mitchell, a journalist who co-wrote the script with Candaele. “Even without its political message (all men will become brothers) the Ninth would still be an
incredible piece of music,” he said.For the live performance, which will
follow the film (and precede the Q&A), Knull and Sydney Waller, a co-chair of the organizing committee along with Cathy Raddatz, have recruited Fideliz Chavez of Hartwick College as music director.
The voices, so far, include members of the Catskill Choral Society, Ah! Coopella, Voices of Cooperstown, church choirs and students from local school choruses.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for se-niors, $5 for teens and college students.Patron tickets ($40 for one, $75 for two) include a post-event reception with Mitchell at Coopertown Distillery.
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will be short $45,000, with-out funding for the second half of the year.
If that were to occur, “what’s going to happen,” Katz said, “by nature, people will come to the vil-lage government. If they are Town of Otsego or Town of Middlefield residents, I will direct them to their town boards.
“Non-village residents should not come to the Vil-lage Board to ask them to keep paying disproportion-ate costs,” the mayor said.
Katz was referring to figures detailed Sunday af-ternoon, May 4, at a League of Women Voters’ forum on the library question in the Village Hall meeting room.
Only 34 percent of Vil-lage Library cardholders live in the village, but the village pays 76 percent of the library budget, Kim Jastremski, Village Library Board chair, pointed out. Eighteen percent are from the Town of Otsego, which
pays only 10 percent; 15 percent are from the Town of Middlefield, which pays only 3 percent.
“This is an unsustainable situation,” Jastremski said.
The solution proposed by the library board and the Friends of the Village Li-brary, outlined at the forum, is to shift funding so that ev-eryone in the Cooperstown Central School District pays a share based on their prop-erty assessment.
The question on the ballot will ask CCS District resi-dents to approve a $180,000 allocation, of which $115,000 will go to the Vil-lage Library and $65,000 will go the other library in the district, the Kinney Me-morial in Hartwick hamlet.That will come to 16 cents per $1,000 on the school tax bills.
As Jastremski explained it, the two libraries, which are both chartered as munic-ipal libraries, have prepared
budgets independently, then combined them in the ballot question. If approved, the $115,000 for the Village Library and $65,000 for the Kinney will be the floor: Funding for each library will not drop below that level.
The libraries have agreed not to ask for more money in 2015.
The Village of Cooperstown, which charges the library no rent, has agreed not to do so for three or four years, the chair said. Accounting services are also free through Village Treasurer Ed Keator, but the village would also start charging for that at some point.
The Village Board is also planning major renovations to 22 Main, which houses the library, village offices and the Cooperstown Art Association. Jastremski said discussion of the library’s role in that will be at a long-range planning committee
meeting June 8, after the budget vote.
Jeff Reynolds, director of the Waterville Library, south of Utica, appeared on the panel with Jastremski, Vil-lage Librarian David Kent and Donna Sell, a member of the Kinney Library board. He pointed out that the state Dormitory Authority bonds for $14 million a year for capital improvements to libraries, available through the Regents, and some of that would be available for Cooperstown’s plans.
Waterville’s is a school district library, but there is a second facility – the Clark Memorial Library in Oris-kany Falls – in the school district, and the annual school budget vote funds both. In Reynolds’ experi-ence, the collaboration has been uneventful.
Attendees at the forum were very supportive of the Village Library. “I love this library,” said Pamela Good.
SCORES/From A1scription led to a nice sur-prise. In a phrase, “we’re number one” – in physics and geometry, Superinten-dent of Schools C.J. Hebert and his leadership team learned.
Teachers got the news at a faculty meeting Monday evening, May 5, and they were delighted, Hebert said. Singled out for praise were science teacher Joe Powers and math teacher Therese Gigliotti.
As Executive Principal Lynn Strang explained it, 12 CCS students took the phys-ics Regents. Their com-bined scores tied for first place with 66 of the other 650 public school districts in New York State.
In geometry, 58 CCS stu-dents took the Regents, and their combined scores tied
for first place with 23 other schools statewide.
Strang has looked back at the data and could find only one instance in the past, in a foreign language, where CCS tied for first.
She sees it as an affirma-tion of the approach that Hebert’s administration has embraced. “Teachers are utilizing the data on an an-nual basis,” she said. “They see what concepts and skills students are struggling on, and make modifications” in the way subjects are taught.
Hebert’s team had se-lected 10 other schools with equivalent demographics to Cooperstown’s, and School Meter found CCS’ phys-ics and geometry Regents scores were also the best of that group. The others were ranked in this descending or-der: Geneseo, Lake George, Tully, Fabius-Pompey, Delhi, Avon, Whitesboro,
Cambridge and Chatham.To compare CCS to all
districts, Hebert said, didn’t seem as helpful as compar-ing it to districts with similar “socio-economic” charac-teristics. Nine of the 10 districts were of similar size; the 10th – Whitesboro – was larger, but similar in other ways, Hebert said.
This year, the School Me-ter results are a “snapshot,” Hebert said, but as the years pass, the tool will allow the administrators to see trends and adjust the instruction plans accordingly, and not just with Regents.
For instance, he said, the annual Grade 3-8 testing, mainstay of the Common Core Curriculum, are being similarly analyzed.
Hebert and Cring didn’t release Regents scores in all areas, but the principal said, “overall, all our scores were pretty good.”
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Oneonta’s Mayor Dick Miller called the proposed “Susquehanna Regional Business Center for En-trepreneurship” to be “very exciting” and “a very
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“It’s a pebble in the pond,” he said, an opportunity for the community at large and the colleges, too.
“We’ve been talking with both colleges since I’ve been mayor about having some sort of presence down-town,” said Miller, himself a former Hartwick College president who was elected mayor in 2010. “A presence that would not cost them anything, but would be avail-able to student, faculty and staff to facilitate their work.”
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START-UP/From A1between the IDA, SUNY and Hartwick, according to Carolyn Lewis, SUNY Oneonta’s economic de-veloper in President Nancy Kleniewski’s office. But even if those discussions were to fall through, the tax breaks would still apply to the fifth floor and the IDA could use them for other ec-dev ventures, she said.
SUNY’s other five sites include 152 Corporate Drive in the Pony Farm Industrial Park, where ultracapicator-maker Ioxus announced it is adding a 30-job produc-tion line. Depending on the timing, Ioxus may be able to take advantage of Start-Up NY enticements, or it may use other ec-dev benefits instead, Lewis said.
A particular intriguing site on SUNY’s list is a former fallout shelter behind the Oneonta Job Corps (the former Homer Folks TB hospital on West Street.) Lewis envisions the bunker as ideal for a homeland-se-curity or cyber-security use, given that there’s a com-munications tower on the property.
SUNY’s three other sites are that former apartment house at the top of Clin-ton Street, a vacant, small SUNY-owned parcel on West Street, and a multi-col-ored former single-family home the college owns at 5 Normal Ave., next to the Old Main Apartments.
Margaret Arthurs, Hart-wick’s director of Corporate, Foundation & Government
Relations and President Margaret Drugovich’s point person on this issue, said the Oyaron site has access to electricity and municipal water. “It’s mostly clear and completely vacant,” she said. It was also cleared for development when the city’s comprehensive master plan was revised in 2010.
Start-Up NY was an-nounced by Governor Cuomo in June 2013, seek-ing to leverage SUNY’s 64-institution system to boost Upstate’s economy, which has been declining for 50 years. (The proposed casinos and $60 million in tourism promotion funds have likewise been targeted specifically for Upstate.)
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Lewis, and Colleen Brannan, Kleniewski’s chief of staff, agreed that given SUNY Oneonta is “a comprehensive college,”
it should have access to a much broader range of potential businesses. The planning group asked itself, “what could we put out there that would make SUNY Oneonta unique?” Lewis said.
In arts and culture, could the fashion, music industry, arts & theater programs, and the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Stud-ies, bring in haute couture, sound studios or set-design enterprises?
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Could the combination of the college’s health-science programs, in connection with Fox and Bassett hospi-tals, Springbrook and Path-finder Village, help spawn health-related businesses.SUNY Oneonta graduates 60-70 biology majors annu-ally, Lewis said.
Arthurs pointed out that Hartwick has a unique list of contacts: Its alumni, many of whom are in business in other parts of the country,
that might be interested in an investment related to their alma mater. The same would apply to SUNY.
Lewis and Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller said they believe the property-tax breaks have been somewhat mitigated on 189 Main’s fifth floor and the Pony Farm site. But the mayor believes that’s a second-ary issue regardless. “I don’t care where the new businesses are,” he said.“Property taxes will be given up first by almost any muncipality. If the activity
is in Oneonta, it is going to generate sales tax revenue, hotel and restaurant visits – those are all good things.”
SUNY Oneonta – Cuomo had originally envisioned Start-Up NY as state-col-lege focused – has received initial approval of its appli-cation, and is in the public-comment period until May 25, when the plan will be forwarded to SUNY head-quarters for final approval.
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