New Berlin supervisor questions new food vendor approved for jail
NORWICH – Only one of 32 resolutions presented before the Chenango County Board of Supervisors on Monday was pulled for further discussion by a town supervisor.
Town of New Berlin Supervisor Ross Iannello asked Chenango County Sheriff Thomas J. Loughren whether a new agreement to purchase meals for inmates would affect meal preparation at the jail’s kitchen for seniors. He also asked whether the move would result in less staff.
The Chenango County Public Safety Facility’s kitchen is used to prepare meals for both staff and inmates and for seniors participating in the Area Agency on Aging’s Meals on Wheels program. After visiting a state-operated meal production center in Oneida, Loughren recommended the service for Chenango County, saying it would be a way to cut food costs in half.
“This is simply another vendor for the same products we are already getting,” he told Iannello, “just at less cost.”
Previously, at a meeting of the Safety & Rules Committee in late May, Loughren reported that meal prep using the service’s revolutionary ‘quick/chill’ food selections would be “less labor intensive” and could result in staff reductions. He told Supervisor Iannello on Monday, however, that the agreement “would not mean less staff.”
The resolution to purchase meals from the state’s service passed unanimously.
Other resolutions authorized without comment from legislators included: using $36,000 in Tobacco Settlement revenues to purchase a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system for the county’s computer technology department; applying $18,000 in economic development funds to upgrade Cook Park in Greene; contracting with a consultant for $6,500 to research and write portions of the county’s comprehensive plan; funding $4,100 for marketing and promoting agricultural programs through Cornell Cooperative Extension; and entering an agreement with a consultant for $26,300 to design a bicycle and pedestrian trail between the villages of Greene and Oxford along the shoulders of county Rte. 32.
The board also authorized the Chenango County Real Property Tax office to refund 2007 property tax errors totaling about $16,385 to parcels in the towns of Afton, Bainbridge, Guilford and Preston.
Town of New Berlin Supervisor Ross Iannello asked Chenango County Sheriff Thomas J. Loughren whether a new agreement to purchase meals for inmates would affect meal preparation at the jail’s kitchen for seniors. He also asked whether the move would result in less staff.
The Chenango County Public Safety Facility’s kitchen is used to prepare meals for both staff and inmates and for seniors participating in the Area Agency on Aging’s Meals on Wheels program. After visiting a state-operated meal production center in Oneida, Loughren recommended the service for Chenango County, saying it would be a way to cut food costs in half.
“This is simply another vendor for the same products we are already getting,” he told Iannello, “just at less cost.”
Previously, at a meeting of the Safety & Rules Committee in late May, Loughren reported that meal prep using the service’s revolutionary ‘quick/chill’ food selections would be “less labor intensive” and could result in staff reductions. He told Supervisor Iannello on Monday, however, that the agreement “would not mean less staff.”
The resolution to purchase meals from the state’s service passed unanimously.
Other resolutions authorized without comment from legislators included: using $36,000 in Tobacco Settlement revenues to purchase a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system for the county’s computer technology department; applying $18,000 in economic development funds to upgrade Cook Park in Greene; contracting with a consultant for $6,500 to research and write portions of the county’s comprehensive plan; funding $4,100 for marketing and promoting agricultural programs through Cornell Cooperative Extension; and entering an agreement with a consultant for $26,300 to design a bicycle and pedestrian trail between the villages of Greene and Oxford along the shoulders of county Rte. 32.
The board also authorized the Chenango County Real Property Tax office to refund 2007 property tax errors totaling about $16,385 to parcels in the towns of Afton, Bainbridge, Guilford and Preston.
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