MAYVILLE - The Chautauqua County Legislature will hold its monthly voting session tonight in Mayville with the Chautauqua County Home again taking the spotlight. Lawmakers will consider a tabled resolution that was amended last week in the Audit and … [Read more...]
County Lawmakers Call on IDA to Provide Jobs Report
MAYVILLE - A group of lawmakers in the Chautauqua County legislature wants to hold the county Industrial development Agency more accountable for bringing new business – and jobs – into the area. Legislators Tom DeJoe (D-Brocton), Paula DeJoy … [Read more...]
County Legislature Committee Approves $1.4 Million IGT Appropriation for County Home
MAYVILLE - The Chautauqua County Home is a step closer to getting addition funding that would help it maintain current operations well after 2013. According the Jamestown Post-Journal, the County Legislature’s Audit and Control Committee met Thursday … [Read more...]
Audit and Control Committee Meets This Morning, Will Discuss County Home Funding
MAYVILLE - The Chautauqua County Legislature’s Audit and Control committee has a full agenda when it meets this morning in Mayville. Among the items to be discussed is the tabled resolution involving the Intergovernmental Transfer Program (IGT) … [Read more...]
North County Accident Claims Life of Former County Legislator
SHERIDAN - A Forestville resident and former member of the Chautauqua County Legislator was killed yesterday after the van he was driving was struck by a tractor-trailer in the town of Sheridan. Chautauqua County Sheriff Deputies say the accident … [Read more...]
Airport Task Force, Mandate Relief Highlight Today’s Committee Agendas in Mayville
MAYVILLE - It’s committee week for the Chautauqua County Legislature, with two committees meeting later today in Mayville. The Public Facilities Committee will meet at 4 p.m. in the Gerace Office Building and will review several pieces of … [Read more...]
Report Says County Home Could Run Out of Money by 2013
MAYVILLE - The Chautauqua County Home will deplete its fund balance and run out of cash by the end of 2013 without financial assistance. That’s according to a report in today’s Jamestown Post-Journal and based on projections released by the Dunkirk … [Read more...]
Labor Department Pulls Controversial Child Labor Proposal
WASHINGTON - The federal Department of Labor has withdrawn a controversial proposal for regulating child labor, a proposal that Farm Bureau leaders feared would alter family farming and deter youths from careers in agriculture. The DOL issued a … [Read more...]
County Legislature Approves New Contract for Part Time Sheriff Deputies
MAYVILLE - The part time deputies in the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Department will be getting a boost in pay. That after county lawmakers Wednesday Night approved a resolution to increase the rate of pay for entry-level part timers from $13.41 an … [Read more...]
County Legislature Tables Funding Resolution for County Home
MAYVILLE - Chautauqua County Lawmakers will wait another month before acting on a resolution to increase funding for the Chautauqua County Home in Dunkirk. During the county legislature’s monthly voting session Wednesday night in Mayville, the … [Read more...]
