County Officials Make Presentation for Municipal Consolidation and Efficiency Competition

Chautauqua County officials say their official presentation of proposed projects in their application for the state's $20 million Municipal Consolidation and Efficiency Competition went well. County Executive Vince Horrigan says he, county legislator George Borrello (pictured), and his Executive Assistant, Dan Heitzenrater, made a 20-minute presentation to a six-member review panel in Albany on Wednesday about the 13 projects in the application. Horrigan says the county partnered with 23 local governments to develop the final application...

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Horrigan says the projects include the dissolution of the Village of Cherry Creek into the Town of Cherry Creek, merging the Portland and Brocton fire departments, the proposed consolidation of the towns of Gerry and Charlotte into one town, and the Village of Sinclairville dissolving into that single town. He says they aren't ready to announce how much each project would receive, but he says the county's Regional Solutions Commission would also receive some money...

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Horrigan says he asked the review panel from the Governor's cabinet how soon there may be an announcement about who will get the "winner-take-all" grant, and he was told it would likely be sometime between late August and early to mid-September.