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Senator Vows, ‘We Will Get Ready’ who had brought 250 economic-development pros, businesspeople and elected officials to his second “Economic Development Summit” ne of the nation’s only half-dozen top Thursday, Nov. 14, was undeterred. He chalexecutives who find sites for expandlenged Sheehy, “You can bring a company ing companies was dismissive of any time and we will be ready. We will get Otsego County’s prospective for economic ready.” development as of today. “I’m glad I wasn’t Casting his eyes toward the audience, here with a client – because you’d be off the he expanded the challenge to the crowd in list,” said Dick Sheehy, manager/site selecFoothills’ main theater: “The time is now for HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal Otsego County to seize the opportunities ... tion for CH2Mhill, the international consultSenator Seward, left, characterized site-selector The bottom line: It’s time to move forward.” ing firm.

Dick Sheehy’s downbeat view of local economPlease See SEWARD, A7 But state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford,

By JIM KEVLIN

O Intent members of the “Seward Summit” audience included, from front, Otsego Chamber President/CEO Barbara Ann Heegan, Apple Converting President Troy Turley, and investor Bob Hanft, Cooperstown, past president, Hartwick College Board of Trustees.

VIPs Voice Take-Aways From Inputs

ic-development prospects as a call to action.

‘Seward Summit’ SHOWS What Future MIGHT HOLD As soon at Governor Cuomo announced the $4.4 billion, 6,000-job G450C project north of Utica, work began immediately on this 700,000square-foot building, SUNY IT President Robert Geer reported.

Editor’s Note: Here are top take-aways reported by business and civic leaders who attended state Sen. Jim Seward’s “Economic Development Summit,” Thursday, Nov. 14, at Foothills Performing Arts Center.

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wo keys: 1. We need to be a “wired” county, with high-quality broadband lines throughout, if we are to be competitive, and 2. The tax free economic zone model for colleges is an opportunity for Oneonta.

Bill Streck President/CEO Bassett Healthcare Network • t was the most momenBy JIM KEVLIN tum on job creation I’ve seen in 30 years. The follow-up is the key. store may hire a Tom Armao worker. A comPartner pany may build a County Club Auto Group factory.

New York State • reat session; very informative; Senator Seward does a great job of organizing these things and I delayed a business trip to attend. It was worthwhile, as what I learned there improved our strategy for expanding Ioxus in Oneonta.

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SUNY IT President Geer Preparation Includes Shovel-Ready Sites, Reports On $4.4 Billion Top County Economic Developers Assert ike Manikowski, Investment In 6,900 Jobs the Ontario

has built an “eco-system” where nanotechnology – the applied science of miniaturizing to the molecular level – can live, breath and, most important, grow.

“Travel anywhere in the world, and people understand what New York has done,” SUNY IT interim President Robert Geer told 250 intent businesspeople and elected officials gathered in Foothills’ main theater Thursday, Nov. 14, for the Please See SUNY IT President Geer reGEER, A6 More TAKE-AWAYS, A4 ports on $4.4 million project.

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County economic developer, told of building a 200-mile fiber-optic highway around his Rochesterarea demesne, ensuring any prospective employer has all the Internet access that might be needed.

Kevin McLaughlin told how his Broome County IDA has accumulated sufficient real estate in its industrial parks – now full; new land is being sought – so it is completely funded privately through rents and leases, independent of county coffers, and thus able to react flexibly.

Steve Hyde, president/ CEO of the Genesee County

Senator Seward drew a laugh when he cautioned economic developers from other counties not to poach on Otsego prospectives. Seated from left are Genesee’s Steve Hyde, Ontario’s Mike Manikowski, Broome’s Steve McLaughlin, and Brian McMahon, the state’s top development executive.

Economic Development Center, told how he applied 20 years experience in the private sector to his public-

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UNY Oneonta police department’s Technical Sgt. Shawn Callahan, Officer Mark Cardinali, Lt. Sherri Drumm, and Technical Sgt. Daniel Rommer were among 14 University Police personnel statewide to receive SUNY’s system-wide Professional Service Award at

the 2013 SUNY University Police Awards ceremony in Albany on Tuesday, Sept.

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Oneonta University Police Department Chief Daniel Chambers nominated them for efforts to save the life of a Job Corps student who collapsed on West Street on Aug. 31.

Chief Steven Dangler, chair of the Chiefs Awards Committee, presented Callahan, Cardinali, Drumm and Rommer with a plaque memorializing their achievement, and bars for their uniforms.

Also honored was former SUNY Oneonta Police Chief Barton Ingersoll.

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OCCA HONORS HUTCHISON, McCAFFERY AT ANNUAL MEETING

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Dave Hutchison, retired Hartwick College professor and chairman of the City of Oneonta Environmental Board, and Rich McCaffery, Cooperstown, a volunteer in multiple causes, were honored as Conservationists of the Year by the Otsego County Conservation Association Monday, Nov. 18, at the OCCA’s annual meeting at The Depot Restaurant, Oneonta. Front row, from left, are Darla Youngs, OCCA executive director, and Vicky Lentz, OCCA president. In the back row are, from left, Lou Allstadt, Cooperstown, 2012 co-honoree, Hutchison, Ed Lentz, Garrattsville, 2007 honoree, and McCaffery.

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OHS Athletic Director Joe Hughes expresses pride in senior Mariah Ruff, seated, as she signs her acceptance paperwork for a full scholarship to play Women’s Basketball at St. Bonaventure College in the Drago Gymnasium on Wednesday, Nov. 13. Mariah is joined by her mother Carolyn, left, and father David, as well as many friends, coaches, teachers, team mates and classmates who were on hand to witness the signing.

Pastor’s Turkey Drive Doubles Last Year’s Donations

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Pastor Mel Farmer on the set of his “Inspiration Time” TV show, with the list of 70 donors for his annual Thanksgiving Turkey giveaway.

In 2012, the giveaway raised $1,500 and donated 84 turkeys to needy families. With the money left over, Farmer started giving away Christmas hams. “We didn’t have anybody say no when we asked for donations.”

With the need as great as it is, Farmer took to carrying around cards in case he met someone in need. “Not everyone wants to write in, and sometimes you can tell someone is really in need,” he said. “I say, ‘You look like you could use a turkey’, and I get their name for the list.”

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In mid-October, the pastor of the River Street Baptist Church put out a call for donations to the Inspiration Time/Gospel Hymn Request Hour’s seventh annual Thanksgiving Turkey giveaway. He hoped to raise enough money to give away 100 turkeys and 100 Christmas hams. “The letters and cards we get are hearttouching,” he said. “With the economy the way it is, you can understand that.”

Now, a month later, he’s raised almost $3,000 and.

“The local merchants really jumped on board,” he said.

“We’re on track to exceed our goal. At this rate, we could probably give away a whole dinner!”

Over 70 merchants gave, ranging from $25 to $150 towards the purchase of turkeys from Hannaford, which donated 25 turkeys to the drive. “Before we even ordered them, they were paid for,” said Farmer.

“The money came in that fast.”

125 recipients have already begun picking up their turkeys from Hannaford’s meat counter.

“Everybody’s happy,” he said. “That’s 125 people who otherwise might not have had a turkey to put on their table this year.”

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Bob Harlem, who chairs the Town of Oneonta’s Comprehensive Plan Committee, outlines recommendations to the Town Board Wednesday, Nov. 13.

Behind him are board members Scott Gravelin and David Jones.

To review the proposal, visit WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM

Hunter From LI Shot In Woods Near Westford

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harles Bruce, 52, of Franklin Square on Long Island, was shot in the chest and died while hunting Saturday, Nov. 16, off Steve Braun Road in Westford.

At 10:20 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, State Police, Oneonta, were called to the scene at 10:20 a.m., where they found the body.

Troopers, the county District Attorney’s Office and conservation officers are investigating the incident.

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Champion Yellowjackets, from left, Nicole Harmer, Meg Burns, Taryn More and Maddie Grau celebrate with fans after their 2-1 state championship win Sunday, Nov. 17, at Cortland.

‘Trust’ Took Lady Jackets To Soccer Heights

By LIBBY CUDMORE

A Mariah Ruff, Meg Burns hoist the Class B state championship plaque.

n October weekend soccer tournament against Cicero North in Syracuse had all the makings of a season-ender for the Oneonta Lady Yellowjackets. Brianna Baker and Madison Miller, two of the team’s top players, both went down with injuries. “It’s difficult to compete without two of our leaders,” said Coach Jerry Mackey.

But after some rearranging on the field and bringing in a few benched

City Expels Parking Meters, Halves ‘Muni Meter’ Rates

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ay goodbye to Oneonta’s parking meters.

The Common Council WINNING WORK: The passed revisions in the city’s Central New York Chapter parking plan Tuesday, Nov. of the American Institute of 19, that will eliminate the Architects has recognized individual meters that line SWBR Architects, Rochester, downtown side streets. for the design of The School The revisions keep paid at Springbrook, opened in parking in place, via “muni September 2012. meters,” at the Westcott Lot and the ground floor of the

municipal parking garage, but will slash the garage rates.

“We doing this in response to what we’ve heard from merchants and customers and downtown building owners and tenants,” Mayor Dick Miller said Monday.

“On the lower level of the garage, where we have a muni meter, we are cutting prices in half,” he added.

“And the purpose of that is to give long-term, particuPlease See PARKING, A8

Carter, Ryan and Aidan Mackey came out to cheer their dad, Coach Mackey, along with pal Matt Schultz.

players, the crisis was not only averted, but the Lady Yellowjackets were on the path to their first state championship in a 2-1 victory against the Marcellus on Sunday, Nov. 17. Miller herself shot the winning goal with less than a minute on the clock after Outstanding Offensive Player Mariah Ruff, tied the game just after halftime.

“When that horn ended, the girls rushed to the field and I fell to my knees in disbelief,” said Mackey. “It was a surreal moment.”

The Lady Yellowjackets made it to Please See CHAMPS, A8

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he valuable observations and information provided by outside experts can help move Otsego County forward. Now we need to roll up our sleeves, combine this sage advice with our own creative ideas, and work collectively to implement a strategic plan that will yield future economic success.”

State Sen. JAMES L. SEWARD, Milford Host, Second Otsego County “Economic Development Summit” Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013 Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta

EDITORIAL

Stars Are Aligned To Do Economic Development Right

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ometimes the stars align.

Thursday, Nov. 14, while 250 business and local government leaders were listening to exciting possibilities for Otsego County’s future at the second “Seward Summit” at Foothills in Oneonta, county Treasurer Dan Crowell was back in Cooperstown, putting the finishing touches on his 2014 proposed county budget.

When he and son Paul – can you believe, that lad Dan used to hoist around everywhere on a backpack is now a strapping 6?

– stopped by the office with a copy that afternoon, there was good news indeed.

Instead of the $2 million deficit anticipated in the first rounds, Crowell had discovered that state requirements – mandates, if you will – on pension and Medicare contributions have leveled out.

Overall, the county budget climbs to $125 million.

But the tax levy, the part we locals have to worry about, will go up just 0.14 percent.

That’s one-14th of one per-

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Paul Crowell, 6, helped his dad, county Treasurer Dan, distribute the tentative budget.

cent, practically nothing.

• Meanwhile, at Foothills, we were learning counties that succeed in economic development have focused efforts, guided by strategic plans and led by strong, savvy and visionary executives.

As Lou Allstadt pointed out after the session, fracking wasn’t mentioned once. It was all about high-tech, about plugging into the state’s nanotechnology “eco-system” that, flourishing in the Hudson Valley, has expanded to the Utica area in the past few months with the $4.4 billion, 6,900job initiative at SUNY IT at Marcy, just 37 miles from Cooperstown.

The school superintendents in the audience, Oneonta’s Joe Yelich, Cooperstown’s C.J. Hebert, Milford’s Peter Livshin and others who have been singing the STEM song for a half-decade, must have been saying “yes!” to themselves. So must have SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski: One of her first initiatives five years ago was forming a STEM council to prepare elementary students for the college’s growing science, technology, engineering and math curriculum.

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GOOD NEWS: To review Crowell’s proposed county budget, go to Friday, Nov. 15, entries at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM

Sometimes the stars don’t align.

As of today, it’s uncertain where the county’s existing economic-development entities are going – the county Economic Development Office, post-Carolyn Lewis, the county IDA and the Otsego County Development Corp. For a while, it looked like they’d also been captured by the excitement that has been growing since state Sen. Jim Seward’s first “Economic Development Summit” at The Otesaga in March 2012.

Lately it’s been hard to read. The current idea is to actually increase the number of positions dedicated to economic development, two paid for by the county, another two by the IDA and a fifth, still undefined, that might be focused on the kinds of goals raised at the second “Seward Summit..”

Can we afford the $120,000+/- prospective salary? If there was any doubt, the City of Oneonta alone is spending that much for a city manager who has more than proven his value in a year in office. In reality, if we don’t spend what it costs to play, we’re dealing ourselves out of the game.

No doubt those are the conversations that Seward is now having, and everyone can only wish him well.

• For the good news is, we have the capacity to align those stars.

The second summit delivered the message that, only with a strong executive, who can push through “shovel-ready sites,” then reach out to energetic peers in growing nanotech and other areas of opportunity, can we get in the game.

It’s a national game, even an international one.

Seward is meeting with key players right now to come up with the necessary structure by Jan. 1, when the new county budget takes effect. The county board

chair, Kathy Clark, in her “take-away” inputs from the summit, has signaled she’s aboard.

Now, Crowell has shown us we can indeed afford to do what needs to be done: The tax rate is stable, and the Double-M albatrosses – The Manor and MOSA – will be off our necks in the next few months. We can afford to do what we ought to do.

Let’s align the stars.

Let’s find and hire that strong executive. (Sandy Mathes, the former Green County economic developers, has been advising Seward and others in recent months; if he’s agreeable, grab him, at least short term, to put the pieces in place. He knows what to do.) Let’s make the county office, IDA and OCDC handmaidens to the main impetus.

This isn’t theoretical. It’s about successful lives, about prosperous families, about thriving businesses. Let’s act now. Or lose the momentum for a generation.

• he takeaway is that the Otsego County Chamber and economic development organizations must coexist and acknowledge the critical role each organization plays in the economy. We must all have the same information to share to cross-market our region.

It should not all fall on the shoulders of one entity as a point of contact, as people go to many different organizations based on relationships. Instead we should all share equal responsibility in marketing our area, to help serve our community better by sharing our resources.

Barbara Ann Heegan President/CEO Otsego County Chamber Oneonta

Senator Seward pulled together an excellent group of professionals who outlined their pathways of success and explored the strengths and weaknesses of our county to attract new companies to this region. It is clear we must develop a shared vision and a united voice for the economic development entities within Otsego.

I hope in the next Summit we will see a stronger focus on assisting, growing and keeping our existing manufacturing businesses in the area. The burdens in New York State, including excessive taxes and regulations, weigh heavily on our ultimate success. It is far less costly to retain and grow than it is to attract and replace.

Troy Turley President Apple Converting Oneonta

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t seems clear that our local approach is fragmented and underresourced. The contrast with the approach of the other areas from which we heard is stark. We have been falling further behind and the pace of that will only accelerate. I am hopeful that Senator Seward will be able to lead us to reverse our previous and current direction.

Otherwise we are greatly penalizing those who will follow us.

Dick Miller Mayor City of Oneonta • believe this community has the collective will, collaborative spirit and the assets to take meaningful steps forward in economic development.

Hartwick College remains a committed partner to the Greater Oneonta Community, and looks for ways to

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strengthen our contribution to Oneonta/Cooperstown’s economic well-being.

Jim Broschart Vice President, Institutional Advancement Hartwick College • UNY Oneonta supports Senator Seward in making sure economic growth is at the top of the list of our region’s priorities. We look forward to partnering with the business community, elected officials and development agencies to build a stronger Otsego County.

Nancy Kleniewski President SUNY Oneonta • he timing and information of the Summit was perfect. The county is primed for responsible economic development. But we must, one, update our current website with fresh information on

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Turn-Key Sites, Incentives Needed

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n order to realize the promise of tomorrow we need to get our act together today.Without key players stepping up to the plate and embracing a well-coordinated, team effort to nurture our current businesses, encourage expansion and provide a singular point of contact for prospective businesses we will continue to fall short.

To even be a blip on the radar screen, we must be able to offer”turn-key” sites, with incentive packages to mitigate the deleterious effects of the onerous NY state tax and regulatory climate, and provide a work force that has the requisite industry skills. None of these challenges is insurmountable. The time to stand up and deliver is now!

I am confident that a county that touts agriculture amongst its assets should not only be able to sow the seeds of economic development but also to cultivate those seeds and yield a bountiful harvest.

I look forward to taking on this challenge during the coming year.

KATHY CLARK Otego Chair, Otsego County Board of Representatives site selection and, two – most critical – identify sites and organize all appropriate components of land, zoning, permits and logistics at one

clear point of delivery to get on their radar.

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Clean Water, Ag,Tourism, Lifestyle Among County’s Existing Advantages

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enator Seward found a constructive way to avoid another gripe session and instead brought in several Upstate New York experts in economic development who told us what has worked elsewhere in New York State and around the world, and they gave us some straight talk about our assets and our weaknesses. ►The main opportunities that I heard from the experts are: • Using our clean water and agricultural base to move up the addedvalue chain for agricultural products. (yogurt, hops, beer, etc) • Building on the tourism base.

• Using our lifestyle advantages to attract more people who work from

home. (a growing segment of the national workforce). ► Secondary opportunities: • Data centers (not many jobs but construction investment and property taxes).

• Medical devices and equipment using nearby nano tech. ► Weaknesses are: • Lack of one-stop shopping for any business seeking to locate here or expand here.

• Lack of broadband. (Need fiber optics with multiple carriers to be competitive).

• Lack of shovel-ready sites (needed for small manufacturing and job creation, even if we never get the 100 job factories that we were told

are unlikely to come here).

• Universities need to be closer aligned with development needs right here so we don’t export our best young people.

• Universities need to cooperate across SUNY campuses. ►Neutral: • We are not in the high-tech corridor but close enough for some people to commute. May attract a few related businesses.

• Little mention of our rail or I-88 access except to say shovel ready sites need to be close to them.

LOU ALLSTADT Retired Executive VP, Mobil Oil Village Trustee, Cooperstown

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Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

125 Years Ago

At 2 p.m. Tuesday, the new First Presbyterian Church was filled with a devout congregation, the occasion being the dedication of the edifice. The building is built of brick and stone, in the English gothic style. The total seating capacity of the church is 900.

Other divisions of the church are an infant classroom, a kitchen, library room, closets, and parlor. The windows are of stained glass, three being memorials.

November 1888

100 Years Ago

The national debts of the world now aggregate 42 billion dollars, having increased 20 percent in the last decade and doubled in the last 40 years. The interest and other annual charges amounted in 1912 to $1,732 million dollars, or an average of slightly more than four percent.

Joseph O’Brien, the one-armed baton and rifle juggler, who is spending a month at his home in this city before starting out on another engagement, has been secured

by Manager George Roberts of the Oneonta Theatre to give his act here on the first three days of next week.

Manager Collar of the Five of Diamonds basketball team has arranged two games for the last of the month. On Wednesday night, November 25, the team will play the Morris high school team at Morris and on November 28 they will play the Cooperstown high school team at Cooperstown.

November 1913

80 Years Ago

Former New York State Governor Alfred E. Smith urged private citizens to unite in stamping out bootlegging after prohibition repeal by conforming strictly to state regulations for the purchase of liquor. “It behooves every patriotic citizen to secure his supplies after December 5 in a thoroughly legal manner. It is inherent in every good citizen to desire to be obedient to the law. The people now have the opportunity not only to be law-abiding, but the opportunity to help their country by increasing the taxation revenue so that the budget can be balanced. Realizing that the government needs more revenue and that he can do his

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part only by buying his supplies legally, no good citizen will patronize a bootlegger after repeal.”

November 1933

60 Years Ago

Milford firemen, taking a call at 1 p.m. went to the Portlandville house and found a neighbor named Bliss fighting the blaze alone with a garden hose. At 1:20 p.m., Milford called on Oneonta for help. The two departments halted the fire which began near the kitchen stove and crept through the partition into the attic and worked its way into the roof. Damage was estimated at $1,500. Mr. Meyers is employed in the Linn Coach and Truck Division plant in the West End. November 1953

40 Years Ago

Specialists from Cornell University conducted an excellent seminar in Oneonta last week on natural disasters. The contention – natural disasters result in many different repercussions. For example, if Oneonta were flooded, we could expect fatalities, personal injuries, extensive property damage, power failures, disease epidemics and loss of water supply, to name a few outcomes. The question was asked: How would Oneonta cope?

November 1973

30 Years Ago

Thomas G. Currie, 37, of 18 Elm Street, Oneonta, was arrested Friday after a “very intensive and extensive” investigation and charged with threatening the life of President Ronald Reagan. The charge is a felony under federal law. Currie is alleged to have scrawled death threats against President Reagan in a book at the Huntington Memorial Library.

November 1983

10 Years Ago

Burger King’s corporate policy now allows women to breast-feed their babies in its restaurants. The change comes just a day before a threatened “nurse-in” in a Salt Lake City Burger King.

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This tradition dates back to 1921 with the creation of The Freeman’s Journal Christmas Fund by Editor & Publisher, Rowan D. Spraker Sr., as a way for neighbors to help others enjoy a happy holiday. This week marks the 91st year of this community tradition, partnering this year with The Salvation Army. The Salvation Army has gathered Christmas wish lists on this Christmas tree, grouped by family.

Embrace one individual or an entire family, every gift is appreciated. Shop by yourself or with friends and colleagues. The more the merrier!

Gifts should be both new and unwrapped (price tags removed please), and received no later than December 11 (to allow the elves time for wrapping and loading). Gifts may be dropped of at the offices of The Freeman’s Journal, 21 Railroad Avenue, Cooperstown, or at the Salvation Army Chapel, 25 River Street, Oneonta.

Questions? Call Santa’s elf, MJ Kevlin, at 607-547-6103, or e-mail ads@allotsego.com (Monday-Friday, 9 am to 5 pm)

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21-22, 2013

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‘SEWARD SUMMIT’ SPECIAL EDITION

County At Center Of Fishkill-Malta-Marcy Nano Triangle GEER/From A1 second “Seward Summit,” state Sen. Jim Seward’s effort to awake Otsego County to the real economic-development opportunities out there.

First, New York State harnessed the SUNY system to the task. Second, it created the “world class infrastructure,” the wired buildings and white rooms that high-high-tech requires.

Third came “15 years of continuing partnering and investing,” Geer said.

Now comes the payoff.

In September, Governor Cuomo announced a $4.4 billion partnership, G450C – the Global 450 Consortium – that will expand the nanotechnology boom from the Hudson Valley west to SUNY IT in Marcy, north of Utica. The state’s share is a relative small $400 million.

The G450C partners include Intel, IBM, Samsung and Global Foundries, the latter which has invested $6.6 billion in Malta, south of Saratoga, and hired

Steve Dimeo, president/CEO, Mohawk Valley EDGE, has seen his strategy come to fruition with G450C. Brian Rooney, former of the Center for Economic Growth, Albany, listens to Dimeo’s remarks.

12,000 people; IBM is doing similarly in Fishkill, near Poughkeepsie, investing $2.5 billion.

(Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller and other Summit-goers observed that Otsego County is right in the middle of the FishkillMalta-Marcy triangle.)

G450C is building a three-phased 700,000square-foot Computer Chip Commercialization Center (CCCC) on Geer’s campus.

The goal: “transforming next-generation wafer technology to next-generation system technology.” In other words, bringing the science to market.

Construction began immediately on what will be a quarter-millionsquare-foot complex, Geer said. The centerpiece will be a 56,000-square-foot, two-level “ballroom-style cleanroom” that Geer called “unique in the U.S.” The state’s nanotechnology miracle didn’t just happen: It was envisioned in the latter years of Mario Cuomo’s administration, progressed during Republican George Pataki’s, and is now coming into full flower under the second Cuomo, according to discussion at the summit.

One model for what is happening Upstate is Singapore, the island state of

5.4 million people, which is flourishing after decades of “sustainable strategic investment,” said Geer.

Similarly, Germany invests 10 percent of its GDP in education and funds German “Fraunhofer Institutes” dedicated to cutting-edge research.

“There’s a pattern here,” said Geer. “No one has to hit us over the head with this. It’s a model that works.”

Nanotechnology is not a race to the bottom, as so much economic development seems to be, but taking the cream off the top. Every Ph.D. on the job at Marcy will require 14 support workers – ranging from high-paid engineers and managers, to wirers and installers, to the guy pushing a mop.

And all levels of education, from high school, to a two-year technical degree, to extensive study in the nation’s best universities.

And at wide salary ranges, from the $30s to $120s.

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SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski confers with SUNY IT Interim President Robert Geer as the morning’s program ended. With them are Colleen Brannan, senior assistant to Kleniewski, and Ross Goodman, an assistant vice president at the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering in Albany.

In the typical development of an industry, Geer went on, there’s a “valley of death” between the initial research and bringing products to market – this is the gap G450C – and the nano “ecosystem” – is designed to fill. Plus, the SUNY IT effort will “not

only grow business. It’s a college campus. We can train people,” he said.

Not everybody gets it, which will work to New York’s advantage. While the state has been ramping up its investment, the U.S. investment in basic research has continued to decline.

Experts: Develop Strategy Plan, Fund It, Implement. It Required Risk, But Calculated Risk PANELS/From A1 want to be an economic-development engine, you have to take some calculated risks,” he said.

A key to success, said Hyde – a point that was repeated by many throughout the morning – was “shovel-ready sites. We had these great assets” – Genesee County is about the size of Otsego – “we didn’t have any shovel-ready sites.”

Brian McMahon, Empire State Development Corp. executive director, who moderated that panel, on an “Action Agenda” for economic development in Otsego County, gave a four-point plan of attack: One, promoted BRAE, business retention and expansion; two, encourage startups; three, attract new investment and jobs Thinking of Remodeling?

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within a regional context, and four, support small business.

“Culture eats strategy for lunch every day of the week,” said McMahon, and it has to be a culture where the stakeholders – like the businesspeople and elected officials listening at the second “Seward Summit” Thursday, Nov. 14, at Foothills – can adapt and compromise to achieve goals.

“Structure should enable function,” said the state’s top job seeker, as the county struggles with how to restructure its Economic Development Office, its IDA and the Otsego County Economic Development Corp.

Foremost, he continued, “the good ones have an understanding of what they want to do.”

McMahon’s panel, consisting of county economic developers, was followed by one of regional economic developers, including Steve DiMeo, president/CEO of Mohawk Valley Edge, which helped land G450C at SUNY IT. David Rooney, who was an early administrator of the Albany area’s Center for Economic Growth, recalled how, in the 1980s, the first step was to “improve the gateways,” including upgrading the thensleepy airport and marketing the potential of the Capital Region’s 27 colleges and universities.

“Who would assign value to our region when we went out to market?” Rooney said the early developers asked themselves.

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‘SEWARD SUMMIT’ SPECIAL EDITION

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Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller trades conclusions with Rooney, left, and Dimeo. In foreground, Ken Tompkins, right, Mohawk Valley Economic Development Council director, chats with Duncan Davie, aide to Senator Seward. In the background is Apple Converting President Troy Turley.

Part of the Cooperstown contingent, Mayor Jeff Katz, left, and Village Trustee Lou Allstadt, center, grill Dick Sheehy, the national site-selection executive who said Otsego County simply doesn’t “make the list.”

Sheehy: Top Asset, Water; Quickest Fix, Quality Food Products

SEWARD/From A1 Interviewed after the summit ended, the senator said he plans to meet with small groups of key business and political leaders over the next few weeks to come up with the best economic-development structure for success, as recommended by Sheehy and other speakers. “We’ve got a lot of work to do,” said Seward. “It’s not going to end here today.”

Seward’s second summit followed 20 months of economic-development ferment set in motion by his first summit, in March 2012 at The Otesaga. That summit – many of the key players who attended had never met each other, the senator observed – focused local attention on CFAs (Consolidated Funding Applications), the key tool localities must use to extract development funds from the Cuomo Administration.

While the first round of CFA awards, announced last December, was disappointing overall, the Village of Cooperstown won longsought funding for a Main Street sidewalk project.

But the county scored big in a round of CDBG funding this fall, with funding to renovate to major buildings in downtown Oneonta and a Brooks’ House of BBQ bottling-plant expansion, among other projects.

The second summit came in the midst of discussion about reorganizing and repositioning the county’s economic-development effort that followed the resignation of long-time Economic Developer Carolyn Lewis. It came as pro-environment Sustainable Otsego candidates suffered at the polls Nov. 5, and in the midst of agitation for more private-sector development by two Oneonta-based business groups: Citizen Voices, which was among the summit sponsors, and GO-EDC, a study group that is focused on reviving the city’s former D&H yards and spurring hops and microbrewery development.

In putting together the second summit, Seward sought the help of Sandy Mathes, who achieved signature success during a dozen years as Green County economic developer. Earlier this year, the county had sought Mathes’ advice on what to do in Lewis’ wake.

After opening remarks by former IDA interim director Doug Gulotty, Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller and Kathy Clark, the county board chair recently reelected by a landslide, SUNY IT President Robert Geer described the $4.4 billion nanotechnology development expected to bring 6,900 new, well-paying jobs

to the Utica area. new plant, a list of a dozen And Ken Tompkins, prospective sites is develdirector, Mohawk Valley oped, then reduced to three Regional Development or four. If a community wants Council, which includes new development, “just Otsego, reviewed CFA don’t get kicked off that progress and strategy. list,” he said. Right now, The audience was a Otsego County would be.

Who’s Who in county leadNew York is disadvanership, ranging from Bassett taged by all the “cities and President/CEO Bill Streck towns and hamlets,” comand SUNY Oneonta Presipared to the large, single dent Nancy Kleniewski, governmental entities in the to Cooperstown Village western U.S. “When my Mayor Jeff Katz, accompaclients are looking for sites, nied by Village Trustee Lou (governmental subdivisions) Allstadt, the retired Mobil don’t matter at all,” he said. executive vice president, to Localities can overcome key Kathy Clark allies on such fragmentation by havthe county board like Linda ing a single point of contact Rowinski and Kay Stuligwhen a company comes ross of Oneonta. calling. “I need to know Businesspeople included who to call,” said Sheehy.

Mark McGough, Ioxus Otsego County is not alone president, Springbrook in lacking that; he’s called Executive Director Patricia communities seeking to Kennedy, Hall of Fame vice place $20 million projects president Ken Meifert, who that would have created 100 is also new president of jobs, “and I don’t get a call the Cooperstown Chamber of back.”

Commerce. And many more.

“The best economic After Tompkins, panels development group in the of the top county economic world is Singapore,” he developers and top regional continued. “It’s a country. economic developers shared I know who to call in Sinsuccess stories leading up gapore.” Singapore is 200 to the piece de resistance, square miles, Otsego 1,015 the presentation by Sheehy, square miles. “Get ready. who had arrived in the Be ready,” Sheehy said. county early the day before, Not only does Otsego which he spent visiting County lack that person, he prospective sites and talkcontinued, it lacks “shoveling with local leaders, an ready sites,” fully permitted estimated 100 or more. locations where companies Otsego County needs can begin construction to take a hard-eyed look almost immediately. at itself if it is to succeed But all was not gloomy. in economic development, Foremost, Otsego County Sheehy said. “Take your has clean water, which old eyes off and put your more and more is lacking new eyes on,” he declared. elsewhere. Water, he said, When site selectors like is particularly important himself are approached by to data centers, the switchCOB 74182 Commercial Loan Ada— Size A:board 9.25”w of x6”h, BW a client looking to build modern communi-

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are available, growing industries include medical devices, aerospace and specialty metals, he said.

Shortterm, particularly given Otsego County’s proximity to 40 percent of the nation’s population, one goal might be to develop

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He’s from Portland, Ore., and he reported there are 85 microbreweries there. “It’s an industry,” he said.

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City Removes All Parking Meters From Downtown PARKING/From A3 larly overnight, parking to people who live downtown.”

That’s especially important during the winter months, Miller said, because the downtown streets must be kept clear for snow plowing.

“This was something the landlords and students asked for,” he added. “We priced it higher than we should have, so we’re cutting those prices in half.”

The new rates will be 50 cents an hour, with a seven-hour maximum; $5 per day, with a three-day maximum; $20 a week, with a two-week maximum, and $50 for a monthly pass.

In addition, the two-hour free spaces on the other two floors of the garage will be increased to four hours, and the current four-hour spaces will simply become “no parking, 5-6 a.m.”

“That will make it more attractive

for long-term shoppers and people who work downtown,” Miller said.

“The Main Street Oneonta organization that we rely on for advice on downtown matters is very enthusiastic about this,” he added.

Bob Brzozowski, who represents the 7th Ward on the Common Council and leads its Community Improvement Committee, also sits on Main Street Oneonta’s board.

“We talked about it at both the CIC meeting and at the MSO board meeting, and it met with enthusiastic support from both groups,” he said. “It’s a good reflection of the city’s acknowledgement that the current parking situation could be improved for shoppers and people who work downtown and businesses downtown.”

“The first rates ... were an experiment and didn’t seem to be working

out as intended, so I’m pleased to see we’re able to reassess every once in awhile,” he added.

Both Miller and City Manager Michael Long said that income from the parking meters, which line Dietz Street, South Main Street and Ford Avenue, among others, was offset by maintenance and the cost of collecting coins from them. As a result, removing them won’t add to the city’s financial burden, they said.

“The amount of money we take in in revenue is approximately equal to the amount of money it costs us to go pick it up,” Long said. “Plus the repairs and maintenance.”

“The meters are getting to be probably 30, 40 years old,” he added.

“They no longer make them (and) the parts are no longer around.”

Downtown Merchants Creating More Varied, Less Intense ‘Black Friday’ STORES/From A3 she said. “It’s the SmartWool® – it’s extremely light and doesn’t itch.”

At the Artisan’s Guild, artists are working to build up their inventory in preparation for the busy holiday season. “I’ve been making midnight runs,” said quilt maker Pilar Conde. “Last year I sold out of my stuffed animals, so I’ve already started making more for this year.”

Though the guild is generally managed by only one person, two will be on hand to keep things running.

“One will ring customers up, the other will be wrapping packages,” said Conde.

“It’ll make things go more smoothly.”

But for Michelle Barry at the Green Toad Bookstore, the big day is Small Business Saturday. “On Black Friday, we don’t get hit quite as hard as the mall, but

on Saturday, that will be our big day.”

Big Chuck D’imperio will be on hand from noon-2 p.m. as a “personal shopper,” helping shoppers pick out holiday books and gifts for their loved ones. “It’s part of a bookstore movement Sherman Alexie proposed,” said Barry. “He said we should invite authors in to ‘hand-sell’ books and sign copies.”

Big Chuck will also sign

copies of all his books, including his newest, “Unknown Museums of Upstate New York.”

Barry also brought in some autographed copies of other best-sellers, including Bill Bryson’s “One Summer” and Pat Conroy’s “Death of Santini.” “In the last few years, so many of the best-sellers were boring,” she said. “But this year, we’ve got some really exciting ones.”

COMMON COUNCIL OKS BUDGET

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But it’s pretty amazing to finally get that championship.”

It was a strategy of confidence and trust, said Mackey. In the last three games, the girls were down 0-1 at halftime against top ranked schools. “There’s a tendency to start questioning and pointing fingers, but it’s dangerous to do that,” he said. “You have to trust the process and do your job, not worry what the other girls are doing.”

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The team was welcomed back with a fire truck parade through downtown Oneonta.

“People here are very invested in the youth of Oneonta,” he said. “It’s rewarding to see as a coach, a teacher, a father and a community member.”

Mackey has been inundated with texts and emails from former players. “I’m happy for these girls, but I’m also happy for all the girls who’ve ever played soccer at Oneonta,” he said.

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Lillian enjoyed visits with family in Binghamton and Philadelphia. She also traveled to such places as France, Florida, Virginia and the Jersey Shore.

She is survived by brothers and sisters-in-law, John (Ingrid) Cleney and Michael (Kathy) Cleney; several nieces and nephews, Marilyn (Paul) Gebauer, Connie (Steve) Kattell, Michael (Kim) Cleney, Brenda Thurston and Andrew (Holly) Cleney; 11 great-nieces/ nephews; and five greatgreat-nieces/nephews. Lillian is also survived by the

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life will be 2-4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, at The Arc Otsego’s Oneonta Day Services, 63 Lower River St. Donations in Lillian’s memory may be made to The Arc Otsego, Box 490, Oneonta, NY 13820 and/ or The Arc of Delaware County, Main Office, 34570 State Highway 10, Walton, NY 13856.

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Lillian was predeceased by her parents; as well as her sister and brother-in-law, Mary (Edward) Jachimowicz; and brother, Andrew Klenick.

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