A new fee to cover the cost of indigent burials included in County Executive Maggie Brooks’s 2013 budget proposal would disproportionately affect city residents and is “offensive and reprehensible.”
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Richards withdraws objections to MCC borrowing
Mayor Tom Richards says the County Legislature should pass its annual borrowing package which, this year, will include funding for Monroe Community College’s downtown campus.
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Reckoning day nears for MCC campus
The future of Monroe Community College’s downtown campus might become clearer next month, or not. A year ago, the college’s Board of Trustees voted to move MCC out of the Sibley building in downtown Rochester. Board members recommended purchasing and renovating buildings in Kodak’s State Street complex, transforming that property into the new Damon City […]
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ELECTIONS 2012: Aldersley for County Legislature
Democratic Legislator Stephanie Aldersley is looking to win the seat she once held for a decade. Aldersley was appointed to the Monroe County Legislature earlier this year to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Vinnie Esposito. She’s running now to fill the remaining three years of Esposito’s term, and faces a challenge from […]
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NEWS BLOG: County’s capital plan passes- with MCC move
Last night the County Legislature passed a plan for construction and infrastructure projects for 2013-2018. The Capital Improvement Program includes Monroe Community College’s proposed new downtown campus. The plan, which doesn’t allocate any funding, calls for $32.5 million in county funds for the downtown campus. College officials want to move the Damon City Campus from […]
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NEWS BLOG: A downtown campus, from MCC’s perspective
This is a corrected version of this story. While student safety is the narrative the media has cottoned to, it’s just one element driving MCC’s proposed move to the Kodak campus on State Street. Emeterio Otero, the college’s executive dean, and MCC spokesperson Cynthia Cooper took us on a tour of the Sibley building — […]
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News Briefs
Jack on the go? County Exec Jack Doyle has drawn news attention and speculation ever since he took office, and that didn’t end with his announcement that he’s retiring. Among the predictions about his future: that he’ll run for Congress, seeking the seat currently held by Amo Houghton of Corning. If he does, the […]
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MCC’s ‘major change’
There’s at least one potential downtown project whose fate isn’t hinging upon the transit center. And its impact on the Center City could be far greater than anything else in the works. Monroe Community College is eying the corner of West Main Street and South Plymouth Avenue as the future home to its new […]
