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Established 1824 * I V A ' T ' I ? C IX T 'T 'V J C r \ « 2 X T XT17M 7C 1 2 / 3 1 / ? 9 0 J FOREMAN CO BOX 6 8 MOtsfMOUTI-l II... 6:1.462 166(h Y e a r - N o . 46 YATES COUNTY’S OWN NEWSPAPER Penn Yan, N.Y 40 Cents 5rown Dplay t Keuka rfUKA PARK — Keuka Col- ^ Spotlight Series contin- %tli classical guitarist Joel l!^ at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, ^l3in Keuka College’s Nor- (Chspel- _ Siown wears many musical ^ ^ a soloist, he has ap- in recital halls the Northeast. He 04 concerto soloist with the ^ord Symphony and has with the New York w Opera Co. He has played 10 at the Metropolitan l^swm of Art and banjo in ^ Hew Music Pest at ^lewood. Wbrking with a trio of guitar, ^ and cello. Brown gently is recording a com- 0 disc of newly composed fiff. The trio will perform at l^ in December. ■He makes music that both le^s and excites,” says the Times Union. “It is the jiicn of opposites that makes l0m BO special.” Biown’s performance is free to the public. Art G u i l d ’s show, s a l e c o n t in u e s PENN YAN — The Penn Yan inGuild Show and Sale began illi a festive opening recep- in Sunday, Nov. 10 a t the fclM County Arts Council, 119 bn St., Penn Yan. 11» public is invited to take lAOpportunity to visit the gal- Vy and get to know the a rtists ni members of the Art Guild, lleshow will continue through knrday, Nov. 30. Works featured a t the show dl include oil, watorcolor and oylic paintings, pencil knrings, and pen and ink invings. Ibe gallery is open from wi-3 p.m. Ihesdays through Sdirdays and by appointment k times other than regular pUeiy hours. Tlie Penn Yan Art Guild ttobers meet monthly and wicome new members. Infer- Mon on becoming a member aybe obtained by calling Lyle tWad, president of the G\iild, KM7) 868-4673. Study outlines tourism strategies Two-year investigation reveals growth plans in region's vacation industry By BILL SHERIDAN Editor DRESDEN — Finger Lakes tourism, already a $1.25 billion industry in New York state, has the opportunity to grow even fur ther once its recentiy identified needs have been met. That was the underlying theme of a luncheon held here last week to announce the results of an ex tensive two-year study which as sessed the current status and potential of the tourism industry in the 14-county Finger Lakes region. Conducted by the Finger Lakes Association — in conjuction with three state Regional Economic Development councils and four Regional Planning and Develop m ent boards — the study con cluded that, although tourism is already a significant economic force in the state, i t has the poten tial to be even greater. “This is one of the most unique projects we’ve been involved in in The impact of tourism Some figures on what tourism meant to New York state's Finger Lakes region during the 1989 season. 8,250,000 tourists came to the Finger Lakes during 1989. Almost $1.25 billion was generated by tourism that year. our 20-year history,” said William Hess, executive <Urector of the Southern H e r Central Regional Development and Planning Board. “We wanted to examine not just the promotional side of tourism, but also the development side of tourism.” After surveying more than 200 tourism -relat^ organizations, FLA committee members for mulated four major goals which, if met, would provide a significant boost to the already strong Finger Lakes tourism industry. I ^ e iden tified goals included: • Improving the economic viability of tourism. • Increasing local support of the tourism industry. • Increasing cooperation among all tourism-related groups and organizations. • Enhancing tourism promo tional and marketing efforts. Contained within the four goals were 64 strategies through which the goals might be accomplished. “They won’t be easy (to ac complish),” said Dr. Clare Gunn, professor emeritus a t Tbxas A&M University who served as a con sultant to the project. “They’re going to take a lot of time and energy.” And while Gunn hoped that lo cal agencies would be able to un dertake some of the strategies themselves, he said strong regional leadership would be needed to enact most of the recommendations. The “key or ganization that is most logical” in accepting such leadership, he said, is the Finger Lakes Associa tion. “Some organization needed to be the canope, and we already have that in place (with the FLA),\ Gunn said. “But (we need) to expand that role to be the facilitator for these things to hap pen, to provide leadership, infor mation and coordination.” The next step, he said, is to prioritize the strategies in order of importance. Once that is done, a regional action team should be formed and a time table es tablished for accomplishing the goals. Locally, tourism-oriented groups will prepare to meet the challen ges set forth in the study by at tending workshops within the four Finger Lakes regions — Southern Her Central, Central New York, Genessee/Finger Lakes, and Southern H e r East. Those workshops, said FLA Executive Director Conrad Tunney, could be held in early 1992 “to see what we might do in terms of preparing our tourism project for the 21st century.” Such preparations would only strengthen an already solid in dustry, officials agreed. Among the findings of the study: * Approximately 8.25 million tourists visited the Finger Lakes see Tourism, page 3 S&S Hospital’s expansion plan gets official OK ByBOBGILFILLAN Slafi writer PENN YAN — Long term care in Yates County received a major boost as Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital in Penn Yan received the go-ahead from the Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency in Rochester to add a new 72-bed residential health care facility. The price tag for the new con struction is listed a t $5.75 million. Construction, according to hospital officials, is scheduled to begin in the spring of 1992 and is expected to take approximately 15 months. Let it snow! Seven-year-old A ubri Crawford a n d nine-year-old Joey Supple take advantage of the season’s first major snowfall Monday by going on a sleigh ride down a h ill in front o f a Clinton Street residence in Penn Yan. The storm dumped nearly six inches o f the white s tu f f on the Central N ew York region. (Photo b y Scott Bauman) Village board suggests ordinance fine increase By SCOTT BAUMAN Staff writer PENN YAN — The Penn Yan village board, during a special meeting last week on the recodifi cation of the village code, recom mended increasing the fine on some ordinances from the present maximum rate of $50 to $250. The increase, said village Mayor Floyd Paddock, is necessary due to the increasing inflation from the time the fine was set. Some of the ordinances to which it will apply concern the leash law and abandoned vehicles, he added. The recommendations to in crease the fines, nevertheless, are only a few of the several changes in the code made by the board, which they will send in for publi cation and then later present to the public at a public hearing. Adoption of the code, with the changes, isn’t expected until February or March of next year. “I think (the recommendations are) pretty well finalized,\ Pad- dock said, “with the exception of the street closing procedures. We’re still waiting for the street commission’s report.” Paddock explained that an up date was needed on the section of the code concerning street closings in instances where construction work, such a s replacing a sewer or water line, had to be done. The stipulations under that section that the board needs to review in clude the peroid of time a street would remain closed, the kind of material, such as ^avel, needed to fill in the dug-in area, how much material should be used and how much it would cost. “The fee wasn’t high enough,\ said Paddock about the current rate the village pays to contrac tors to do the work. “The contrac tors don’t replace (the area they tear up) sometimes.” Another fee the board recom mended changing was the current yearly rate of $1 required for a sidewalk permit, which allows see Board, page 3 “It's crucial,” said Meg Bills, a s sistant administrator for Long Tbrm Care for Soldiers and Sailors on the importance of providing additional long term care beds in Yates County, “esjM- cially in a community like this, where you have a lot of families who want to remain close to their family members. \And she mentioned, “also (for) a lot of older people who don’t have the ability to travel other places and who want to support their family members who are placed in nursing homes.” Bills, who noted that Soldiers and Sailors — through The Homestead — currently has 80 long term beds, also stressed the importance of residents keeping close ties with their community. “People,” she emphasized, “really identify with this com munity as their home, and so they don’t want to leave their home. If they have family and friends here, then those family and friends are still available to them, which is really crucial to a person coming in. “We try to make their residence here as home-like as possible,” added Bills, who said the new facility should create between 50 and 75 additional jobs. \And i f you have to take them someplace where a son or a daughter or a spouse is not able to visit them as regularity ... as they might be able to if they can just walk down the street to visit.” As Bills remarked, “It makes it easier on them (family members). Some of the people are not able to travel long distances — even to places like Geneva or Canan daigua is a hardship for them. They don’t drive and there isn’t any other transportation. “So,” she expressed, “you can well imagine that it m ust be a hardship for one spouse to be separated from the other aftrr they’d lived together for years and years and years. So, as much con tact that they can maintain, on both sides, is realty significant.” Bills also said the new facility will enable the hospital to imple ment an innovative adult day health care program. “There are a couple of different models of day-care (programs),* she explained. “There’s the social model, which is just as it in dicates, where people come and they socialize. We’re providing what is called the medical model of the adult day health care program.\ As Bills elaborated, “They might get different kinds of treatments, (such as) occupational therapy, physical therapy, or help with their medication. \And responded Bills, who said she expects 25 or 26 persons to be enrolled in the program, “they will certainty get activities. It realty is designed to help keep people in their homes longer, be cause if they couldn’t get this ser vice they may need a nursing home bed faster. “So,” Bills acknowledged, “if they can come out and get the kinds of treatments that well provide in the adult day health care program, then they may be able to stay in their homes longer. “And it will also help the people who are taking care of these people at home and give them a break.” Yates Legislature approves tentative budget Proposed spending plan includes tax hike of nearly 16 percent over ’91 By BOB GILPILLAN Staff writer PENN YAN — With a whole as- sembly of interested on-lookers — including. newly-elected legis lators, visitors, department heads and the county’s new sheriff, Ron Spike — the Yates County Le^s- lature unanimously approved its tentative 1992 budget totalling $20,098,390 on Wednesday, Nov. 6 . Under the proposed budget, Yates County residents would pay a tax levy of $6,963,778, an in crease of $954,038, or 15.9 per cent, over 1991. County officials said one of the important factors in keeping the tax levy increase for the tentative budget under an anticipated 20 percent was the diligence and cooperation of the county’s department heads. As Budget Officer Jack Clancy noted, “The budget which I presented (during the budget workshops) would have meant a tax increase of 18 percent-plus, but it included some drastic measures, like eliminating from seven to nine jobs. “The Legislature,” he added, “decided that the jobs should not be eliminated, while supporting some of the other cuts that were in the budget, and we ended up by restoring the jobs with a 20.9 per cent tax increase. “At th a t point,” related Clancy, “we went back to the department heads and asked them to find a quarter of a million dollars — which they did — which was realty the key good thing that happpened in the process.” As he expressed, “It showed a real partnership on the p art of the department heads to not only work with the Legislature, but to work with each other to find the cuts.” Clancy also praised an ad ministrative reorganizational plan submitted by Sheriff-elect Spike (which was present.-'d to the Tentative budget figures The recently approved tentative 1992 Yates County budget containes the following figures. |Bu<to.ttoKil I $20,098,390 \ Tax levy | $6,963,778, an increase of $954,038 over 1991 A 15.9-percent hike from last year Legislature during the special Nov. 6 budget workshop) representing a net savings of $25,495 in the 1992 budget. “Ron (Spike),” remarked Clancy, “in the re-organizational plan, has shown that he h as some new and innovative ideas about managing the Sheriff’s Department.\ Under the re-organizational plan submitted by Spike, ad- minstrative functions shared by the sheriff, undersheriff, chief deputy and jail lieutenant would be consolidated into a single job staffed by someone with ad- minstrative expertise, while eliminating the position of chief deputy and one corrections officer. “What we want to do,” said Spike, who said he “wore many hats” as chief deputy, “is to eliminate this position of chief deputy and reassign those duties.” As he stressed, “%e*re running a $1.9 million operation with the jail and with the revenues that we have coming in ($74,000 per month) from (boarding out-of county) prisoners, and that’s going to turn out to be a pretty high figure for revenues coming into the county a t the end of the year. “It’s a lot of money to handle,” related Spike, who sJso called for the upgrading of one investigator to investigator lieutenant and one road patrol sergeant to road patrol lieutenant, “and a lot of things that I observed that take place over there, as far as what the chief depu^ does and what the undersheriff does and what the corrections lieutenant does, invol ves a lot of business administra tive-type work. “And,” he went on to say, “if you have a business with a budget that big, you need someone with the expertise to be able to handle it.\ In o th e r budget m a tters, Yates County Highway Superin- see Budget, page 3 1- i . i ' i ..y :
