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3/19/73
You may remember that before our last meeting I had heard from the radio
that the City considered calling a meeting of representatives from the Town of
Ithaca and the Village to study sharing services and perhaps a future consolidation
into one unit of government. on March 13 I received a letter from Mr. Glen Schmidt
as follows. I replied the same day.
That evening I called Mr. Schmidt and urged him to have the Mayor appoint
persons to the City's long vacated places on the Agency. I suggested we see what
the agency intended to do before we considered another committee such as the City
was recommending.
The agency met last Thursday. Mr. Schmidt came in towards the end of the
meeting but no other City person attended. The agency considered the wish of
the Town and Village of Groton to develop a sewer program and decided to recommend
to the County Board of Representatives that it support the program. Among other
matters considered was the question, should the Agency recommend a new study of
the long range sewer needs of the City of Ithaca and the area in the Town of
Ithaca adjacent to it that might be served by the City Plant. To this Walter
Schwan raised the objection that to become involved in this kind of long range
planning at this time might push into the background the immediate needs of
the Town and City. The Agency advised the Town and City to carry on negotiations
among themselves.
The Agency stood by its earlier decision to wait until the Village plant
is remodelled before recommending that the ownership of the plant pass to the
County Sewer District No. 1.
In conncection with our discussion of the E. Upland Road - Triphammer
intersection and the problem created by trees and shrubs that block a view of
traffic, I wrote to Mr. Lewis and Dr. Lee C. Lee, the property owners concerned.
Mr. Lewis responded positively as the Police Chief's report shows. Dr. Lee
was opposed to taking any action to relieve the situation. She said that there
was no hazard there, that any difficulty that might arise was caused by faulty
construction of the road. Further she claimed that we were harassing her as a
matter of policy. She said she had received a letter from the Engineer last
summer, making the same request as I had done. My letter proved the harassment.
Two letters in her first year of owning the property. No record, that she had
heard of, that we had asked the previous owners to trim the hedge. The evidence
she thought was clear enough.
I asked her to make these statements in writing to the Board. She has not
done so.
F. G. Marcham