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OGDENSBURG — City officials said Friday they are disappointed that home rule legislation pending in the state Legislature that would have allowed the city to collect an additional 1% of

OGDENSBURG — City Council on Tuesday night passed a resolution to license municipal property at the Dobisky Center through the end of the year. Council unanimously approved the resolution to license municipal property at the riverfront center to Matthew Rose beginning June 1. His lease with the city will extend through the end of 2021. City Manager Stephen P. Jellie said Mr. Rose will pay $250 per month for the space, including his security deposit. Mr. Rose will have first right of refusa...

OGDENSBURG — Councilors unanimously passed a resolution Monday night to hold a special City Council meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 18. Two public hearings will be held at the meeting, and council is expected to vote on two resolutions as well. The first public hearing will be for the draft community development plan that council adopted in March. When the resolution was adopted, it was referred to the city’s Planning and Development Department. Two public meetings for input on the pla...

OGDENSBURG — The Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority Board of Directors took no action Thursday on the city’s proposal to open a beach on authority land this summer, but is expected to send City Council a counter proposal in time for its Monday night meeting. City Council, during its March 24 meeting, passed a resolution setting a goal to open a city beach by July 1. The resolution, which was passed unanimously, states that the least expensive and quickest way to achieve the July 1 g...

OGDENSBURG — The City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to approve a change order totaling $1.8 million for additional work to the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant Capital Improvement Project. In 2019, Jett Industries Inc. of Colliersville was awarded the contract to overhaul the aging plant, which regularly empties partially treated wastewater into the St. Lawrence River. Since bids for the contract came in substantially over what engineers had estimated, several alternate p...

OGDENSBURG — A sexual harassment complaint against a city councilor has been investigated by the Ogdensburg Public Library on behalf of one of its employees. A report was originally submitted to the library’s Board of Trustees by Executive Director Penny J. Kerfien on March 15, alleging the library’s sexual harassment policy was violated when Councilor Steven M. Fisher sexually harassed her in a Facebook comment posted to the Friends of the Ogdensburg Public Library page in Febru...

OGDENSBURG — In line with its plan to share and consolidate services as a cost-saving measure, the city is looking to do just that with the Development Authority of the North Country. City Manager Stephen P. Jellie is looking to negotiate with DANC to create what he calls an intermunicipal agreement for management and operational support of the city’s water treatment plant and wastewater treatment plant. Mr. Jellie sent a letter to DANC Executive Director Carl E. Farone Jr. requesting...

OGDENSBURG — A resolution last year calling for the layoffs of four police officers — now found by an arbitrator to have violated the city charter — could put the

OGDENSBURG — One City Council member has submitted a resolution calling for the mayor and three councilors to resign following an arbitrator’s decision this week that the city charter was violated when the body agreed to eliminate four police officers. But the resolution has been omitted from Monday night’s council agenda. Councilor Daniel E. Skamperle confirmed Friday that following the arbitrator’s decision, the minority members of council — himself, Michael B. Powers...

OGDENSBURG — In a decision issued Wednesday, an arbitrator found the city violated its chart… OGDENSBURG — A resolution last year calling for the layoffs of four police officers — now found by an arbitrator to have violated the city charter — could put the political future of three city councilors and the mayor in jeopardy. The question of whether the four officials should resign has been raised following the decision released Wednesday. But the answer lies with whom you a...