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ITHACA, NY -- The vote for a switch from a mayor-council to council-manager government in Ithaca will not be offered to the public this November. At the April City Administration
ITHACA, NY -- Big changes could be coming to the structure of Ithaca city government. At the April 28 City Administration Committee meeting, a subcommittee charged by the mayor at the beginning of the year, proposed moving from a mayor-council government to a council-manager government. A mayor-council government, the closest to the way Ithaca operates, has a mayor elected separately from the council who is often full-time and paid with significant administrative and budgetary authority. The council is elected and maintains legislative powers, and some cities with this type of government appo...
ITHACA, NY -- Ithacaâs Common Council unanimously voted to approve the Reimagining Public Safety resolution on March 31. The resolution was due to the governorâs office on April 1 after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed executive order 203 last summer, whichrequired municipalities to reexamine their law enforcement agencies through the lens of marginalized communities in an effort to reduce unequitable policing toward Black and brown communities. The monumental vote came after six weeks of meetings and public forums in which everyone from council members, residents, parents of college studen...
ITHACA, NY -- Robert G. Cantelmo announced his candidacy for the City of Ithaca’s Fifth Ward Common Council seat.
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