County briefs
By Donna Comella
When the Wayne County Board of Supervisors met on Tuesday, legislators:
- Approved funding to assist the Village of Newark in the realignment of the N. Main
St./Harrison St. intersection. The total project cost is estimated at $210,000 with
the village contributing $30,000 cash and $100,000 in-kind labor; $10,000 for land
acquisition and $40,000 from a HUD grant for purchase/installation of a new traffic light
- the county will fund no more than $30,000.
- Heard from an angry Carm Pascarella when it came time to approve 1999 highway
projects. Although Valley Drive in the Town of Rose headed the list, Pascarella wasn't
happy that the project included only 1.2 miles of road.
"I've been here for eight years and got nothing from the county," complained
Pascarella. He ran down a list of projects that he thought had inappropriately been given
higher priority than his town's projects.
"Are we in Wayne County? Where are we?" asked Pascarella. He repeated the
questions several times before Donna Chittenden responded. Pascarella wasn't through.
"We've been on the list since 1902 and now we only get part of it done? Maybe
somebody in 2502 can get the rest of it."
Pascarella told supervisors that the road is in such bad need of repair, the town crew
can't even get down the road to plow it. Red in the face, Pascarella asked, "What is
the fairness in it?"
- Received notice from the Wayne Weekly that the paper would not be able to accept
a designation as the Board's official newspaper. The Board gave the designation to
the Wayne County Mail. Voting against the move were supervisors Pascarella, Dave
Spickerman (Butler), Louis DeLisio (Galen), Monica Deyo (Marion) and Frank Guelli
(Walworth)
- Heard a brief presentation by Wayne County Clerk Linda Shaffer regarding this year's United
Way/Red Cross Campaign. The 1999 Campaign will kick off on March 17 with a Day of
Caring. Shaffer is the 1999 Campaign Cabinet Chair.
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