Monroe County and City of Rochester officials want to hire a consultant to figure out how to best use their fiber networks. Over the years, county workers have installed 367 miles of fiber optic cable throughout Monroe’s towns and villages, and particularly in the City of Rochester, said Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks during a […]
Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks
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What Brooks didn’t say in her final State of the County speech
Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks gave her final State of the County address last night — and she sneaked a couple of bits of news into it. For one, the county finally has a buyer for the Gateway and Atrium buildings on East Main Street downtown. CGI Communications, a marketing company located next door in […]
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Coalition: State should consider poverty when awarding money for child care
Late last week, a group of local government, business, and labor leaders known as the Rochester Community Coalition released its annual Community Agenda. The list spells out what the leaders want from Albany. Much of it should be familiar: a change in the state aid formula for municipalities, money for the Hillside Work-Scholarship program, and […]
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Brooks lays out opposition to lake-levels plan
Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks says that she opposes the plan for regulating water levels in Lake Ontario. This morning, Brooks appeared at the county’s Webster Park, along the lake’s shore, with Wayne County Board of Supervisors chair Jim Hoffman and Republican County Legislators Mike Rockow and Brian Marianetti to speak out against the plan. […]
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Mayor: MCC showdown an artificial crisis
Rochester Mayor Tom Richards says Republicans in the County Legislature are making the MCC situation “unnecessarily confrontational.” The Legislature could vote as soon as next month on borrowing for the list of projects the county plans to tackle in 2013. Included in the county’s Capital Improvement Plan is millions in borrowing for MCC’s new downtown […]
