Chenango County not represented at annual conference
NORWICH – Close to 1,000 attendees convened in Albany for a meeting that began Monday and Chenango County was the only one of 62 counties in New York not represented. The event ended today.
The conference, sponsored by the New York State Association of Counties, is touted as a way to represent, advocate for and educate elected and appointed officials. It features workshops and a lineup of speakers. This year’s presenters include Governor Eliot Spitzer, Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith.
Chenango County was also absent at the association’s seminar held in the fall, NYSAC press spokesperson Mark LaVigne said.
Chenango County Board of Supervisors Chairman Richard B. Decker, R-N. Norwich, said Tuesday morning that while he knew about the upcoming conference, he “didn’t have the time to go.”
Taxpayers pay $5,246 per year for the county to be a member of NYSAC. Aside from a period of three years in the mid-1990s, membership has been maintained for many years.
County Clerk RC Woodford said there are no current budget restrictions on travel. Convention participants could choose to participate in either the full, three-day conference for $175 or just one day for $120.
Notices were mailed out to Decker as well as individual supervisors and department officials. Mailers and e-mails followed periodically.
“There was ample opportunity to sign up,” LaVigne said. Chenango County Department of Public Works Director Randy Gibbon, who is on NYSAC’s standing committee for transportation and public works, had been expected, LaVigne said. Gibbon said he did not attend.
The conference program is packed with workshops ranging from foundations of county government to an analysis of the executive budget; and from countywide assessing to the Governor’s Commission on Efficiencies and Competitiveness. The latter is an initiative designed to modernize and consolidate local governments.
There was a press conference yesterday to gage reaction to the governor’s budget proposal, as well as addresses by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco. This morning, attendees discussed the county’s role in reinvigorating the state’s economy, region by region, county by county and city by city.
The New York State Association of Counties is a bipartisan municipal association serving all 62 counties of New York State, including the City of New York. It was organized in 1925.
Woodford said department directors and personnel traveled to 180 conferences and training seminars in 2007. Social Services Commissioner Bette Osborne attended the New York Public Welfare Association conference held in Albany last week.
The conference, sponsored by the New York State Association of Counties, is touted as a way to represent, advocate for and educate elected and appointed officials. It features workshops and a lineup of speakers. This year’s presenters include Governor Eliot Spitzer, Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith.
Chenango County was also absent at the association’s seminar held in the fall, NYSAC press spokesperson Mark LaVigne said.
Chenango County Board of Supervisors Chairman Richard B. Decker, R-N. Norwich, said Tuesday morning that while he knew about the upcoming conference, he “didn’t have the time to go.”
Taxpayers pay $5,246 per year for the county to be a member of NYSAC. Aside from a period of three years in the mid-1990s, membership has been maintained for many years.
County Clerk RC Woodford said there are no current budget restrictions on travel. Convention participants could choose to participate in either the full, three-day conference for $175 or just one day for $120.
Notices were mailed out to Decker as well as individual supervisors and department officials. Mailers and e-mails followed periodically.
“There was ample opportunity to sign up,” LaVigne said. Chenango County Department of Public Works Director Randy Gibbon, who is on NYSAC’s standing committee for transportation and public works, had been expected, LaVigne said. Gibbon said he did not attend.
The conference program is packed with workshops ranging from foundations of county government to an analysis of the executive budget; and from countywide assessing to the Governor’s Commission on Efficiencies and Competitiveness. The latter is an initiative designed to modernize and consolidate local governments.
There was a press conference yesterday to gage reaction to the governor’s budget proposal, as well as addresses by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco. This morning, attendees discussed the county’s role in reinvigorating the state’s economy, region by region, county by county and city by city.
The New York State Association of Counties is a bipartisan municipal association serving all 62 counties of New York State, including the City of New York. It was organized in 1925.
Woodford said department directors and personnel traveled to 180 conferences and training seminars in 2007. Social Services Commissioner Bette Osborne attended the New York Public Welfare Association conference held in Albany last week.
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