Cayuga County Legislature Chairperson Aileen McNabb-Coleman thought last week s meeting was going to finish a bipartisan process started more than a year ago to establish an interim leadership structure for county government.
But a resolution to create and fill a new operations officer failed in a party-line Legislature vote on April 27, despite having been unanimously approved the week before by the body s Ways and Means Committee. The vote frustrated McNabb-Coleman, D-Owasco, who has been running the county government s day-to-day operations on her own since the start of 2020.
The goal of the new post, she said, was to have the Legislature chairperson still be in charge of day-to-day operations but have professional management support of an operations officer.
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The two major political parties in Cayuga County have been making endorsement decisions in recent days for candidates seeking to run for countywide seats as well as Auburn City Council and the county Legislature.
The endorsements are a major step in the political calendar, with official party support offering potential candidates a boost in the process of gathering signatures for petitions to be put on the ballot.
While neither party has finished making all of their endorsements, each announced several choices following meetings held by Republicans on Saturday and Democrats on Monday.
In the race for two Auburn City Council seats, Democrats are backing two-term incumbent Terry Cuddy and newcomer Ginny Kent, a former Auburn Enlarged City School District Board of Education member. Republicans have endorsed Cayuga County Legislator Tim Lattimore, who is not eligible to run for re-election to his county seat because of term limits. Lattimore is a former
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