This is a summary of legislation discussed at the Binghamton City Council Work Session on March 11th, 2024. These Requests for Legislation would be voted on at the City Council Business Meeting on March 27th. Video Agenda Packet RL24-47 Amend the 2024 Parks budget to pay a responsibility adjustment to Acting Parks Commissioner until 4/21/2024 […]
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This is a summary of legislation voted on at the 2/28/24 Binghamton City Council Business Meeting. I’ll be using the second half of these Business Meeting recaps to highlight some recent city government press releases, which are mostly printed word for word with no scrutiny or contrasting viewpoints by local news outlets. Journalism as a
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Binghamton finally has a city council that will listen to the community. My new year’s resolution was to start going to every meeting and it’s mostly been me and 5-10 other people in attendance, sometimes less. These recaps are meant to inform and encourage discussion online and in-person at City Council public comment sessions (every
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At a special board meeting this Friday, September 29, of the Water Street Development Corporation (WSDC), a shell entity created by the Kraham administration to move forward the controversial Water Street Parking Garage project, two very important things happened. First, WSDC Board Member and former Mayor Rich David tore into the school board and local
As a resident and taxpayer, I submitted the following letter to Binghamton City Council to be read into the record during the Public Comment section of the July 26, 2023 City Council Business Meeting. July 26, 2023 Dear Council members, I think it’s appropriate we all reflect on the unanimous decision by the Binghamton City
There is a lot of confusion around a controversial downtown project planned for the old Boscovs parking ramp that involves two lego pieces: five floors of private luxury housing project built on top of five floors of a public parking garage. This article is meant to fight through some of the intentional fog created by
At the June 5, 2023 Binghamton City Council work session, Mayor Jared Kraham requested City Council approve a massive tax break for another wealthy developer to build more downtown luxury housing, even though Binghamton continues to suffer from a crushing shortage of quality, affordable housing and folks experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness are on the
At the April 12 Binghamton City Council meeting, the GOP-led Council is expected to rubberstamp, as usual, Mayor Kraham’s request to (1) launder $500,000 of COVID recovery funds through the general fund, “liberating” the federal grant dollars from program rules, and then (2) immediately allocating this same $500,000 for a commercial façade improvement grant program
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BINGHAMTON, N.Y .– Binghamton University’s Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP) will award the inaugural Nadia Rubaii Memorial Prize to Filipino-American journalist and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Maria Ressa at 5 p.m. Friday, April 14, in the Anderson Center’s Chamber Hall, on campus. The event is free and open to the public.The prize
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