Tuesday, May 18, 2021 - 1:28 pm
BY ADAM ATKINSON
North Country This Week
POTSDAM The Potsdam Village Board of Trustees approved a resolution setting the annual salaries of village management and non-union personnel effective the first pay period after June 1.
The board approved the salaries at their meeting Monday, May 17.
The salaries are:
• Village administrator, Greg Thompson, $80,430
• Police chief, Mark Murray, $88,590
• Village clerk/treasurer, Lori Queor, $73,384
• Director of planning & development, Fred Hanss, $77,680
• Museum curator, Erin Cheney, $35,000
• Superintendent of DPW, J. Corbett, $73,726
• Code enforcement officer, Lisa Newby, $50,750.
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POTSDAM â The Potsdam Village Board of Trustees will vote to adopt a 2021-2022 spending plan at its next regular meeting on April 19.
If adopted as it is now, the proposed tax rate of $18.218 per $1,000 of assessed value represents a 0.38% decrease from the last budget plan.
The budget calls for the appropriation of $100,000 from its fund balance, which Mayor Reinhold J. Tischler said is currently at more than $3 million.
âIt was a tremendous effort from Lori (S. Queor) and all the department heads,â Mr. Tischler said.
Department heads were frugal in their requests, he said.
âThey chose not from the want list but from the need list,â Mr. Tischler said.
A proposed agreement between the village of Potsdam⢠and the owner of Market Square Mall would benefit both parties.
The plan calls for parcels of land to be swapped. This would remove some obstacles for the Downtown Riverwalk Trail project and create a new street in Potsdam.
âVillage Administrator Gregory Thompson detailed the proposal during [the Feb. 22] Village Board meeting. He noted that Market Square Mall owner Brooks Washburn expressed interest in exchanging a number of small parcels of land adjacent to the complex with village-owned property, which would improve traffic flow and grant the village riverfront property needed for its ongoing Riverwalk project without the need for an easement,â according to a story published Thursday by the Watertown Daily Times. âThe village would also take responsibility for a tract of land in the mallâs existing parking area, which would connect the existing Depot and Raymond streets from the north and south. The pr
The potties can stay in Potsdam, putting an end to a 16 year battle over a famous toilet garden in upstate New York.
The Potsdam Village Board of Trustees ordered Frederick “Hank” Robar s famous toilet gardens to be removed in July 2020. The board voted unanimously to have Robar take down his toilets by September 1st for being in violation of the junk storage law. Robar took the case to federal court and won, barring village officials from touching his toilets.
February 1st, the board changed their mind. “After considering the order of United States district court, we hereby rescind the resolution directing Mr. Robar to remove the toilets,” Potsdam Mayor Reinhold Tischler announced Monday.
Some regions of the country are renowned for their landscapes.
What would Florida be without its everglades? People travel from all over the world to see the cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C.
There are the Badlands in South Dakota, Mojave Desert in Nevada and redwood trees in California. And, of course, we have the Adirondack Mountains right here in Northern New York.
Itâs understandable that many in Potsdam didnât want Frederick Robarâs contribution to the communityâs topography become the talk of St. Lawrence County. But officials appear ready to accept the inevitable.
On Monday, members of the Potsdam Village Board of Trustees approved a resolution rescinding a previous order for Robar to remove his toilet gardens. This came more than four months after Senior U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence E. Kahn in Albany granted Robar a preliminary injunction against a village mandate to dismantle his gardens.