October 10:
Part-County Sewer District and Consent Order - The Highway Superintendent has been talking with Oneida County’s consultants about all the initiatives that need to be submitted and agreed upon between the County and DEC by year’s end
Consent Order – Rayhill Memorial Trail – Oneida County was required to pay a $150,000 fine related to the Part-County Sewer District and the County was successful in DEC agreeing that 20% of that fine could be allocated toward a local environmental beautification project; instead of paying $30,000 to DEC, the money will be made available to the Sauquoit Creek Basin Inter-municipal Commission who will administer the installation of a dedicated parking facility for trail use at the Middlesettlement Road BOCES property. Most likely, inter-municipal agreements will need to be executed among DEC, BOCES, the Town of New Hartford, the Sauquoit Creek Basin Inter-municipal Commission and possibly the Town of Whitestown. This project has been submitted to DEC and preliminary indications are that the project will be approved by DEC.
October 24:
Trailhead Funding – Philip Rayhill Memorial TrailCouncilman Reynolds and the Highway Superintendent confirmed that the Town of New Hartford has received funding approval for the trail head at the Philip Rayhill Memorial Trail. (NOTE: Refer to October 10, 2007 Town Board minutes.)
New Hartford must have friends in high places at the DEC!
I have a better idea on how the money could be spent:
Build a picnic area adjacent to the County's outfall in Yorkville.
The people in Yorkville have been dumped upon . . . and will continue to be dumped on until at least 2014. When the weather is good people will have a pleasant place to go.
And when we get rain, we will be reminded by the floating feces of how government has failed us.
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This reminds me of the psychology term “classical conditioning” run amuck. This begs the questions as to why Oneida County government chooses to reward the very municipality that mostly attributed to the dilemma and generated these fines in the first place. Holy Cow! How does the DEC justify considering that a paved parking lot constitutes “a local environmental beautification project?” The New York Department of Environmental Conservation would do well to listen to their name and perhaps focus more on preserving our environmental land resources rather than funding for paving it over. Perhaps extending the trail to include portions of Yorkville and Whitestown, with perhaps connecting it to the New York State Canal trail, would more fit in with the motif of environmentally benefitting the citizenry.
What the heck is DEC thinking?
Ask Boehlert.
Judy Drybicki needs to understand that she is a PUBLIC servant not one of New Hartford's.
I wonder just how much of her loyalty to the taxpayers is being clouded by her previous employment with the RAYHILL LAW FIRM in New Hartford?
Commissioner Names Judy Drabicki Director of DEC's Region 6
Isn't Peter Rayhill, Esq., recently appointed by Anthony Picente to the MVCC Board of Trustees, a member of the same law firm (Rayhill, et al.) whom Judy Drabicki worked for?
No wonder, ONLY in New Hartford can you BREAK THE LAW and be REWARDED for it.
Ms. Drabicki should immediately RESIGN from her DEC position. It becomes obvious the smell of the sewage overflow goes farther than [just] the Town of New Hartford.
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