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Otsego County Treasurer-elect Daniel Crowell of Middlefield said he is eager to get to work for the county. Scheduled to take the oath of office at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Crowell is already planning to release a study of the county's finances from the last 10 years.  

Despite warnings by Administration Committee Chairman James Johnson, R-Otsego, the Otsego County Board of Representatives did not amend its $115,316,393 budget for 2010. "Simply put, the 2010 budget, as it currently stands, is reckless," Johnson told his peers. Johnson asked his peers to reconsider the budget.

Simply put, the 2010 budget, as it currently stands, is reckless   -James Johnson

 

No one wants to hear that his taxes are going up. No more welcome is news of local jobs being lost because of budgetary constraints. Yet we cannot find much fault with Otsego County's 2010 budget, which was the result of much wrangling and numbercrunching by the county board and the county treasurer's office.  

At the end of six-hour meeting Wednesday, the Otsego County Board of Representatives adopted a 2010 budget that will raise the county budget levy by 6.27 percent. The county tax levy, which includes workers comp costs and other charges, is slated to rise by 7.2 percent. An exact total of appropriations will be available today, but the board started the day with a tentative budget that called for appropriations of $114,755,638. subtracted many items, checking periodically on how the changes would aff  

Daniel Crowell will be the next Otsego County treasurer. A final tally of votes Tuesday in the race between Crowell, a Democrat, and Republican Edward Keator Jr. show Crowell winning the race, 6,305 votes to 6,149 votes. "It's a challenging budget year to inherit, but I am thrilled and honored at the opportunity to work," Crowell, 34, of Middlefield, said Tuesday night.  

Otsego County Sheriff Richard Devlin Jr. and James Powers, chairman of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, are locked in a battle over Otsego County's $114,755,638 tentative budget. That spending plan, filed this week by Treasurer Myrna Thayne, calls for increasing the property tax levy by 11.11 percent. It also provides for reducing the sheriff's workforce by three of 18 deputies and sergeants, and six of 45 corrections officers _ cuts that Devlin has called irresponsible.

I'd just gone through a state police road check in Rockdale and they had six people working there   -James Powers

 

Otsego County Treasurer Myrna Thayne has filed a tentative 2010 county budget that calls for increasing the property-tax levy by $1,148,718, or 11.11 percent. In the current budget year, the tax levy was $10,343,089. For next year, as the tentative budget stands, it will be $11,491,718.

The impact of the recession along with the continued reductions in the New York State budget for state fiscal years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 remains uncertain   -Myrna Thayne

 

The unofficial margin in the Otsego County treasurer's race grew again Monday as the Otsego County Board of Elections rechecked results, preparing to make them official. As of Monday afternoon, Democrat Daniel Crowell led Republican Edward Keator Jr. by 153 votes, 6,302 to 6,149, according to Cindy Jarvis, the county's Democratic deputy elections commissioner. On Election Day, Crowell's lead was reported as 5 votes, but after re-canvassing the voting machines, Board of Elections staff found a series o  

Democrat Daniel Crowell has apparently won the Otsego County Treasurer's race, defeating Republican Edward Keator Jr. of Oneonta by 140 votes, 6,302 to 6,162. Results will not become official until Tuesday, according to Lori Lehenbauer, the county's deputy Republican elections commissioner. "Monday is the last day we can receive military ballots, so we can't declare anything officially until after we receive Monday's mail," she said.  

Only five votes separated Otsego County's treasurer candidates in unofficial results released Tuesday night by the Otsego County Board of Elections. With all 57 districts reporting, Democrat Daniel Crowell of Middlefield had 5,869 votes to Edward Keator Jr.'s 5,864. Keator lives in West Oneonta.