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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
So far Lansing's Board Of Education is on schedule with their search for a new superintendent of schools. Board members hope to have a short list of final candidates so that interviews can be conducted on the 22nd and 23rd of this month. The deadline for applications is today, October 5th. "Applications are coming in," says Board of Education President Tom Keane. "Our search firm has been reviewing applications and conducting phone interviews."
The district secured the services of education consultant firm Castelo & Silky to advertise and recruit for the position. That firm does the initial vetting of candidates and expects to produce a list of about a half dozen candidates to present to the board. Board members will attempt to reduce that list to a final three on October 16th, at which point interviews will be scheduled.
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Oct
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
 Marlaine Darfler
The question of chartering as a school district library was defeated in May by district voters by 34 votes. But library officials have stated that confusion about the library's connection to the school district caused that defeat. A school district library only has two actual connections to a school district. First it shares the same tax base. Second, the library is required to get permission for some votes from the school board including the initial vote to establish the taxing authority, and any subsequent votes that seek to change the tax rate for the library.
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Oct
05
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by Marcia E. Lynch
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
 Legislature Hears Report on Homeless Youth
Housing, transportation, education and finding a job are the primary needs of the county's homeless youth. Those factors were among the information communicated to legislators, as participants in the 2007 Independent Living Survey Project concerning the needs of the county's homeless youth summarized the report's findings for legislators. The study, updating a similar project conducted four years ago, was carried out through a partnership involving the County's Youth Services Department, the Learning Web, the Family Life Development Center at Cornell University and young adult participants in the Learning Web's Youth Outreach Program. Currently and former homeless youth were involved as research partners, who collected survey data from more than 200 young people, participated in research design and helped to interpret results. Some of them were on hand tonight to tell legislators about the needs the study identified.
Project director Jane Levine Powers, of Cornell's Family Life Development Center, reported that the study finds great instability among the population, with many floating from one temporary housing situation to another, that conflict at home is a major theme, and drug use a common factor, both in the reasons that respondents identified for leaving home and within the population itself, with a common connection between boredom and drug use. A significant number also experienced parenting issues.
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Oct
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by Marion Read
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
 WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Representative Michael A. Arcuri (D-Utica) voted today to reauthorize and expand critical Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) support programs which have helped small airports across Upstate New York upgrade infrastructure and safety operations, including $15.8 billion for the Airport Improvement Program (AIP) which funds the Military Airport Program (MAP) that has provided over $20 million in federal grants to the Griffiss Airfield in Rome since 2004.
"Local airports serve as critical points of growth and economic development throughout our region," said Arcuri, a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee which is responsible for FAA reauthorization. "This bill includes funding for key programs that have enabled the Griffiss Park in Rome to become a site of increasing economic potential, as well as safety and operations upgrades for Oneonta and Tompkins Regional airports. The funds in this bill will ensure local airports can update facilities, improve runways, and enhance safety measures to continue to provide quality service to our region. By investing in local airports we are investing in the local economy, expanding access to our pristine natural resources and top-notch businesses."
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by Marcia E. Lynch
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
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County officials tonight outlined Administrator Steve Whicher's proposed 2008 Tompkins County budget at a Community Budget Forum sponsored by the County Legislature.
Close to 30 people attended the forum, held at Ithaca's Boynton Junior High School, some of them representatives of County departments and agencies. Eleven citizens addressed legislators, nearly all of them calling for funding to be preserved for programs that provide valuable services, including the Tompkins County Public Library, Offender Aid and Restoration and the Drop In Children's Center. Several young people served by the Bridges Program for Youth and Families, operated by the County Youth Services Department, told legislators about how the program's Aggression Replacement Training has made a difference in their lives. An over-target request for an additional staff position for the Bridges program was not included in the administrator's budget.
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