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Aug
17
2007
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
The topic of municipal sewer came up at Wednesday's Town Board meeting, but this was a different sewer project from the $18.2 million project recently tabled by the board. Tompkins County Area Development's (TCAD) Heather Filiberto spoke in support of a limited sewer project along Warren Road, which would bring sewer service north from the Village of Lansing to the Warren Road Business Park. "I want to reiterate that TCAD thinks that this is a very needed and worthwhile project," Filiberto, who also spoke in support of the project last month, said. "We would really like to see it happen."
 Transonic Systems
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Aug
10
2007
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
 The Village of Lansing Trustees discussed progress on a deer management plan that officials hope to put in place by this year's hunting season. Trustee John O'Neill presented a second draft of a plan he is working on to establish an invited, controlled bow hunt this October. With the deer population out of control, local flora decimated, and an average of 30 collisions with cars per year, officials decided to take action to try to control the herd by taking advantage of the Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) deer management program. "We need to establish a program," O'Neill said. "It is then submitted to the DEC for their approval before we can authentically move forward as the agent for them."
The plan is to invite only qualified and experienced hunters from the Lansing Bowhunters, a subset of the LBH Archery Club to a closed hunt on Murray Estates, also know as Sundown Farm. The area is the largest open area in the village, and a frequent haunt for deer. After a presentation by DEC officials in February, O'Neill set about devising a program that utilizes the DEC's Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP).
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Aug
10
2007
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by Marcia E. Lynch
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
The County Legislature discussed site alternatives in a more than hour-long executive session and authorized County Administrator Steve Whicher to complete an evaluation and negotiate the purchase of a building at 55 Brown Road, located in the Village of Lansing, from its current owner, Cornell Real Estate, including completion of an environmental impact review. The action also directs the Health Department Building Committee to develop a conceptual design for the building that meets the Health Department’s needs. The Legislature’s vote was 9 to 5. (Legislators Kathy Luz Herrera, Leslyn McBean-Clairborne, Frank Proto, Tyke Randall and Greg Stevenson voted no; Legislator Pam Mackesey was absent.) The Legislature must vote again to advance the project beyond the conceptual stage, once the conceptual design, environmental review and proposed purchase agreement are developed.
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Aug
10
2007
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by Marcia E. Lynch
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
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 Drop-In Children’s Center Receives Funding
By a vote of 9 to 5 (with Legislator Pamela Mackesey absent), the Legislature approved $50,000 in contingent funding to enable Ithaca’s Drop-In Children’s Center to cope with an ongoing fiscal deficit. The Center, which provides affordable childcare on a sliding scale for the working poor, had been in danger of ceasing operations without the infusion of funding. (Legislators Mike Hattery, Mike Koplinka-Loehr, Kathy Luz Herrera, Frank Proto and Greg Stevenson voted against the measure.) The action provides $25,000 in operating funds for 2007, dealing with effects of a revenue shortfall produced by delayed opening following the Center’s 2005 expansion, and provides another $25,000 to reduce the gap between fees and the costs of care for the remainder of this year. The measure also supports operations of a group, to include Social Services Commissioner Patricia Carey, which will work on long-term fiscal sustainability of the Center, including the seeking of additional partners to help fund the Center.
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Aug
10
2007
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
 Fire Commissioner Jeff Walters questioned the Lansing Fire District's voting plans at the commissioners' monthly meeting Tuesday night. Normally elections are held in Central Station on Ridge Road, as well as Station 5 on Oakcrest Road in the Village of Lansing. With low voter turnout for generally uncontested elections, Walters says the expense of maintaining two polling places is not justified. "I'm not opposed to doing it the way we do it, but I don't see why we can't do it at one location," he said. "I think it's a lot of money to spend in the Village."
 Jeff Walters
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