Village Plans $200,000 In Road Work In ’11
COOPERSTOWN
The village’s 2011-12 budget completed by the May 1 deadline taps another $390,000 from surplus funds, compared to the $265,000 originally proposed by Mayor Joe Booan.
But it keeps the tax rate steady at $4.6 per thousand, and it contains $200,000 shortterm street repairs, less than the mayor originally sought but almost 50 percent higher than the new bloc of trustees had proposed at one point.
The road repairs, Booan said, will be “mill and fill” and “oil and stone,” and will be done on some of the streets targeted in his original budget.
While most of the personnel cuts the mayor proposed – he planned to use the savings for a full-bore streets – were put back in by the new Village Board, the mayor was able to express some satisfaction in the final document.
For instance, $10,000 was allocated for Lamont Engineering, the village’s consultant, to begin planning future roadwork. “It will help us get ‘shovel ready’ for future projects,” Booan said.
The mayor was also foiled in an effort to use some of a $750,000 surplus in the water fund for roadwork, a permitted use, according to the state Conference of Mayors.
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