When the Monroe County Legislature meets tomorrow, it’ll have two new Republican members. And a third one will be in office at the end of the month. Three Republican legislators successfully ran for different local offices this past November, creating vacancies in the Legislature at the end of 2013. This afternoon, the county Republican Party […]
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Deal may avert detention center, Costco problem
Democrats in the Monroe County Legislature are re-evaluating their decision to block a big county borrowing measure. Details are fuzzy, but it looks like the measure may now have enough votes to pass. Democrats have held the legislation up since December in an attempt to get Republicans to support their plan to have the Legislature lead a review of local development corporations affiliated with the county.
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Dems tap Rivera to fill vacant Lej seat
Democrats in the 29th Legislative District have selected Leslie Rivera to fill a vacant County Legislature seat. The seat was previously held by Democrat Michael Patterson, who resigned last month to take over the City Council seat held by Mayor Lovely Warren. Officially, County Legislature President Jeff Adair must appoint Patterson’s replacement. Under county law, […]
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Four vacancies in the County Legislature
For the time being, the Monroe County Legislature has four vacant seats, to which someone must be appointed. The seats are all emptybecause the people elected to them have all resigned for new local offices. On December 18, Democratic Legislator Michael Patterson resigned to take a seat on City Council. And as of January 1, […]
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State will finish detention center work
Monroe County will be able to move its children’s detention center to the Industry Residential Center in Rush as of January 10, say state officials.
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Dems float detention center funding plan
Democrats in the Monroe County Legislature say they have a plan to pass financing for a new children’s detention center — the center is already in the works. But Legislature Republicans have already rejected the idea once. This latest proposal is just another aspect of a boiling — and increasingly sprawling — feud in the […]
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On LDC’s, county says it’s conducting a review, not an investigation
One of the central issues in an ongoing County Legislature skirmish is the county administration’s internal review related to local development corporations. The administration has hired former state Attorney General Dennis Vacco to lead that review. Legislature Democrats say that the Legislature should be in charge of the internal probe, not the administration. Between this […]
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Dems again block borrowing; GOP says Costco at risk
An ongoing County Legislature feud is only going to get more complicated, now that a proposed Costco store and the county’s Children’s Detention Center are getting dragged into it. The conflict has its roots in two issues: a Democratic proposal to form a committee to conduct an internal review related to county-linked local development corporations; […]
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Legislature to meet at 6:30 a.m. tomorrow
County Legislature President Jeff Adair has scheduled a special meeting of the Legislature for tomorrow at 6:30 a.m. — that’s not a typo — so representatives can again vote on borrowing for the county’s yearly capital plan. Democrats blocked the measure last week. It’s hard to see Adair’s action as anything other than a tactical […]
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Dems’ LDC legislation defeated
Republicans on a County Legislature committee have shot down Democratic legislation that would have formed a panel to lead an internal probe of county-linked local development corporations. The county administration hired a Buffalo-based law firm to assist with ongoing state Attorney General’s Office and FBI investigations and one of the firm’s partners, former Attorney General […]
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Week Ahead: Dems push independent LDC probe; charter school renewals
Today, a County Legislature committee will take up a Democratic proposal to create a special committee to take over the internal investigation into local development corporations. To ensure that the Legislature considers the proposal, Democrats voted last week against borrowing for the county’s annual capital project plan. Such measures need a two-thirds majority to pass, […]
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Erie County passes anti-fracking law
In Monroe County, anti-fracking activists have struggled to get government officials to take fracking-related issues seriously. In particular, they’ve asked the county to pass a law banning its water treatment facilities from taking fracking waste, but their requests have fallen flat. Erie County is a different story. Yesterday, its Legislature passed a law banning fracking on […]
