County chairman makes good on final CARI obligation
NORWICH – Chenango County never intended to skirt its financial obligation to Communities Against Regional Interconnect or CARI, the group that successfully defeated the high power electrical line that was headed this way from Canada.
After all, the county started the opposition group in the first place, said Chenango County Board of Supervisors Chairman Richard B. Decker, R-N. Norwich. It later grew into a coalition of seven counties and a handful of community action groups.
“It was a good fight,” Decker said before a meeting of the Finance Committee last week, “which, by the way, we started.”
Decker was on hand at the meeting to request authorization for spending $55,000 and the county’s final financial obligation to CARI. The full board of supervisors will consider adopting the resolution on Monday.
Whether that amount will be the end of it is undetermined, however. The organization is about $450,000 in the hole, according to Decker.
Chenango County Planning Department Director Donna M. Jones confirmed that, according to the original cooperation agreement, if there were additional bills after every county involved made good on their commitments, they would still have to split up any remainder evenly.
“Their attorneys are still waiting for some consultants’ final bills to come in,” Jones said.
If the measure is adopted by the full board, Chenango County would have contributed $205,000 to the coalition to help fund the legal battle against the now-defunct New York Regional Interconnect power line project.
After all, the county started the opposition group in the first place, said Chenango County Board of Supervisors Chairman Richard B. Decker, R-N. Norwich. It later grew into a coalition of seven counties and a handful of community action groups.
“It was a good fight,” Decker said before a meeting of the Finance Committee last week, “which, by the way, we started.”
Decker was on hand at the meeting to request authorization for spending $55,000 and the county’s final financial obligation to CARI. The full board of supervisors will consider adopting the resolution on Monday.
Whether that amount will be the end of it is undetermined, however. The organization is about $450,000 in the hole, according to Decker.
Chenango County Planning Department Director Donna M. Jones confirmed that, according to the original cooperation agreement, if there were additional bills after every county involved made good on their commitments, they would still have to split up any remainder evenly.
“Their attorneys are still waiting for some consultants’ final bills to come in,” Jones said.
If the measure is adopted by the full board, Chenango County would have contributed $205,000 to the coalition to help fund the legal battle against the now-defunct New York Regional Interconnect power line project.
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