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Mar
23
2007
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by Marcia E. Lynch
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity is the first recipient of the County Legislature’s Tompkins Tourism Partner Award. The award is given to recognize individuals, organizations, and associations who, through their actions or activities, have made an impact on the local economy by attracting conventioneers and visitors to Tompkins County. The award will be given to representatives of the fraternity, LeNorman Strong and Robert Harris Jr., at the March 20th Legislature meeting at the legislative chambers in the County Courthouse, 320 North Tioga Street, Ithaca. |
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Mar
23
2007
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by Marcia E. Lynch
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
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The county committee which had been mulling a possible local law to increase the county’s age for tobacco sales today concluded that the county should not “go it alone” to raise the legal purchase age to 19. After listening to concerns expressed by Health Department staff and considering a negative recommendation on the issue from the county Board of Health, members of the Health and Human Services Committee agreed that they will not recommend that the Legislature pass a local law to affect that change. |
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Mar
23
2007
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
Lansing's Code Enforcement took some heat at Wednesday's Town Board meeting when Scott Morgan complained about the Town's refusal to allow him to use an old school bus as a pig barn on his property on Peruville Road. "The bus was a cheap solution to a barn," he said. "It was well insulated and structurally sound. (Lansing Code Enforcement Officer) Dick Platt sent a letter dated February 13 stating that the pigs must be removed to the bus, because it was not up to code. He supported it with a document which stated that all farm buildings are exempt. Is this not a farm building? Pigs were living in it."
 Is it a barn or a bus?
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Mar
23
2007
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
In a second discussion of the upcoming budget, Village of Lansing Trustees found themselves in the enviable position of lowering taxes. Mayor Donald Hartill told the Trustees that the Village will lower the tax rate from $1.59 per thousand dollars of assessed value to $1.40. And he says taxes may go still lower. "I think that we may need to lower the tax rate again last year by a small amount," Hartill said. "Or it may be that inflation next year will adjust that for us. Once we're in that stable mode, then we can go with inflation. So it's a nice position to be in."
The Mayor explained that the lower taxes are a result of adjusting to a normal state after the $6 million Triphammer Road reconstruction project. "It's a nice feature that we did not have to borrow any money to rebuild Triphammer Road and the other things that were done," he said. "But it's now time to get things back to their normal track."
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Mar
16
2007
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
The Lansing Board of Education held a special budget workshop meeting last week to help decide what should be in the 2007-2008 school budget and how much to ask district taxpayers to ante up. Most of the workshop was taken up by a presentation by District Business Administrator Larry Lawrence, who provided a 28 page line-item packet. "Right off the top I choose to make the statement that I believe that the tax climate in our community is going to mitigate against any kind of tax increases above what would be considered inflationary," Lawrence told the Board. "For that reason I am proposing a regulatory capped budget. That is the maximum increase in a contingent budget is 3.84% and I am proposing that we go to a budget of 3.84% increase."
 (Left to right) Superintendent Mark Lewis, Business Administrator Larry Lawrence, School Board members Dan Brown, Anne Drake, Bonita Lindberg, Christine Iacobucci, Glenn Swanson, Sandi Dhimitri, and Tom Keane
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