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 Loading ... | Thursday night,a public hearing on the request by developer and owner David Muraco to demolish the house drew a standing-room only-crowd of more than 50 concerned residents to the Gothic Cottage on Albany Street,which was built in 1847 and donated to the town for use as office space. Muraco has said he wants to raze the home,which he is currently renting out,in hopes of developing the 2-acre parcel of land. Debate reopens about fate of historic Enders property in Cazenovia | syracuse.com. CAZENOVIA—The Cazenovia Public Library is offering families with middle school,high school,or college students the opportunity to join Paul Celuch,co-founder of College Assistance Plus,in a workshop entitled,“Get a Degree…not Debt,” that will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday,Jan. 11 in the Community Room. This workshop,which is free and open to the public,will focus on how to find the right career,major,and college,and then how to negotiate better deals even while enrolled in college or graduate school. Learning how the college business model works and how award decisions are made enables families and students to leverage much better deals at their college of choice. To learn more,contact John Decker from CAPlus-Syracuse at 656-7973 or e-mail:jdecker@CollegeAssistancePlus.com or call the library at 655-9322 or visit www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org On Thursday,Jan. 12,adults are invited to view “Contagion,” a film that explores what global viruses mean to the human race,at 2 and 7 p.m. in the Community Room. This movie is rated PG-13 and runs for 106 minutes. Admission and popcorn are free. Mark the calendar for “Moneyball” which will be shown at 2 and 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 19. Copyright 2012 The Observer-Dispatch,Utica,New York. Some rights reserved It’s a white Christmas in Cazenovia this year. Wherever you are and whatever you’re doing today,may health and joy be yours! CAZENOVIA — Cazenovia Public Library news (Cazenovia,NY – Dec. 2011) As part of the 34th annual Christmas Walk on Dec. 2,the Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library invite all Christmas walkers to a special book sale to be held in the Library Reference Room from 6 to 8 p.m. Add a stop at the library while you stroll through beautiful Cazenovia on Dec. 2. You won’t be disappointed,and,as always,the proceeds go to support programs at the library. For more information,call 655-9322 or visit cazenoviapubliclibrary.org. By Pierce Smith Cazenovia — The village of Cazenovia just got a little larger. During the Nov. 7 village board meeting,a resolution was passed by both the village and town approving the annexation of 13.452 acres of land as village property. Following a public hearing and completion of a SEQR form for a Type I Action,it was determined there would be no negative environmental impacts. As the lead agency,the village passed the resolution first and immediately contacted the town board with their decision. Minutes later,town councilors approved the resolution,making the transaction official. Continue reading Town land annexed into village Please remember to vote in Town of Cazenovia elections if you live in the town. The polling places are:
The Town Supervisor position is being contested this year;the candidates are Tom Clarke and Ralph Monforte. Two town board positions are also being contested. Candidates are running unopposed for a county judgeship and the Cazenovia town clerk position.
Read more at:syracuse.com  Madison County Halloween Spirit Fair 2011 My wife Gale and I have lived here in Cazenovia for 34 years. Our two children went to school here,we pay our taxes on time and we vote. During the past 2 1/2 years we have had the very unfortunate experience of dealing with our Town supervisor Ralph Monforte and councilwoman Kristi Anderson regarding serious misconduct by the ZBA chairman. We were witness to and victims of serious offical misconduct by these individuals. During a series of ZBA meetings we and our neighbors observed a very very clear appearance of official misconduct be the ZBA chairman D. Christian Fischer. It was quite clear to our neighbors and us that Mr. Fischer and the ZBA acted inappropriately regarding a zoning variance application by AT&T. AT&T operated a cell site for almost a decade without proper authority and permits required by town laws. We performed an investigation of these procedings and it is clear that Fischer acted inappropriately during the course of the hearings. Mr. Fischer,among other things,held back room negotiations with AT&T thus violating the openess in meetings laws of NYS. Further more Fischer allowed erroneous misinformation and outright lies by AT&T to go unchallenged and without reprimand of any sort. There are several other issues that we would be willing to share with anyone who is interested in doing the RIGHT THING. I informed Mr Monforte on at least four separate occasions of this obvious violation of town laws. Each time Monforte assured me that he would investigate this misconduct and speak with Fischer. Several weeks and months passed and finally we demanded that the town board be made aware of these misdeeds. Finally after several months the town HIGHWAY superintendant agreed to meet with us along with Kristi Anderson. We submitted a very detailed report in writing to Kristi Andersen. It was clear from the first few minutes of the meeting that Andersen was completely defensive before she even read our complaint and report. We were no less than astounded that our complaints were not taken seriously. Fischer’s and Monforte behaviour Obviously violated town laws that clearly prohibt EVEN THE APPEARANCE OF MISCONDUCT. We asked several people to define who is responsible for the enforcement of the town laws. TO THIS DAY WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED AN ANSWER. Andersen agreed to investigate the complaint. I phoned her after a full month and she indicated that she hadn’t written anything up and had not talked to Fischer because “WE didn’t think it was necessary”. She told me then (before any sort of investigation) that “you won’t like it”. Obviouslys she ASSUMED everything we said was “trivial”. We received a response letter a full month later from Monforte with Andersen’s so called investigation that stated in so many words that we were out to lunch and that they had spent significant time investigating, The letter addressed only a fraction of the many issues we had documented. It further said that their decision was in the best interest of the community,ie themselves. | |||||
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