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Report of the Mayor - January 1975
I have appointed a nominating committee for the forthcoming elections. The
members are; Mrs. Donald Dickason, Mrs. Herbert Dieckmann, Mr. Phillip McCarthy,
and Mr. Edward Flash, Chairman.
Mr. Gary Lee has replied to a letter I sent him regarding the status of the
Cornell Campus Patrol and the inequity, as we see it, of the law that assigns
fees collected for breach of our dog ordinance to the Town of Ithaca. He
promises investigation and will keep us informed.
The County Personnel Officer, Mr. Hurlbutt, has notified me that the County has
assigned to the Village one laborer for one year under the Federal Government's
jobless employment program.
A review of the memorandum sent by Mrs. Nina Lambert to the Village regarding the
restoration and improvement of Sunset Park shows that her recommendations fall
into three categories. One is the organization of committees to promote and super-
vise the work of restoration in the Park and elsewhere in the Village; another is
to seek,by way of Committee activity, hinds from Villagers who are willing to con-
tribute to improving the beauty of the Village through landscape work. The third
category is elaborate d=scrlptions of plantings, -'rail making... erosion control,
and other activities to continue the changes we began last Fall. The business
proposed under one and two, the Board should consider during the Spring. The
plantings and other improvements constitute a program that will probably take
• 2 or 3 years or more to complete. In the meantime, the Board may wish to set
aside a few hundred dollars in the forthcoming budget so that work may begin in
early Sumner.
I have written to Cerrache Television Corporation concerning papers and accounts
that might be necessary to us for further study of the proposed rate increase.
Mr. Wiggins wrote to say that the officer concerned was on vacation. He left it
to be inferrel that on the officer's return the papers would be available to us.
Some weeks have passed, and I have heard nothing more. I wrote to Mrs. Ethel
Nichols, Chairman of the City of Ithaca 'barter and Ordinance Committee offering
the Village Board's cooperation in stud, of the proposed rate increase. In reply,
she thanked me,,said it would have been well if we had begun to collaborate some
time ago, and she left me with the impression that so far as her Committee was
concerned there was no op_aortunity at present for new action.
Enclosed is Gordon Wheeler's advice on the subject.
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