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6 ITHACA JOURNAL Wednesday, April 18, 1984 Cayuga reps oppose utility's land for Indian settlement streets. Legislators also approved health insurance benefits for part-time employees, provided the employees pay the premiums. They authorized County Treasurer David A. Farrell to conduct an auction of surplus property on June 9 at the county Motor Pool at the intersection of York and State chairman. Legislators agreed to supply $1,000 to help finance a free public concert of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in Emerson Park on Aug.

22. In other matters, Parmley reappointed Robert H. Body of West Lake Road, Fleming, to a six-year term on the county Civil Service Commission. Bodv is commission servation to acquire the property for a hazardous waste landfill. "I think we want that lake property to remain intact for the people of Cayuga County we shouldn't just let it get away," said Legislator Paul Sedor (D-7th Sedor is a member of the county's Emerson Park Commission.

"There's untold potential for that land," said David M. Holdridge (R-lst who represents the Town of Sterling in which the land is located. Members of the task force, created by Rep. Frank J. Horton (R-29th Dist.) two years ago, haven't voted on any settlement question, said Cayuga County Attorney Raymond S.

Sant. "It's not a majority vote kind of situation," he said. Sant, a Cayuga County task force representative, said, the Task Force is an advisory committee created by Horton. "It's recommendatons are not binding," he said. In contrast, Sant said it is possible that anyone in the task force could block a settlement.

"It takes everyone in it to make a settlement fly," he said. The Cayuga Indians' litigation claims that New York illegally acquired the reservation in treaties of 1795 and 1807. Their suit, filed in Federal District Court in Syracuse, names the state. Cayuga and Seneca counties and owners of former reservation land as defendants. The counties are representing themselves and their property owners in court.

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CLAY SR. Journal Staff AUBURN Cayuga County legislators said Tuesday they don't want the Cayuga Indians to get Rochester Gas Electric land in an out-of-court settlement. Legislators spoke in response to suggestions that the land could be included in a negotiating proposal to persuade the Indians to drop litigation. The Indians are trying to reclaim some 64,015 acres of former reservation land in Seneca and Cayuga counties and are seeking $230 million in damages. If a proposal is ready, task force members haven't been told about it.

Dale C. Parmley said at a legislature meeting Tuesday. Parmley, chairman of the legislature and one of two representatives of the county on the task force, said "We haven't been brought up to date." However, Parmley said he has a promise that any proposal to use land in the Town of Sterling would include a proposal to compensate the town and would be brought before the county legislature. "Surprises will not work." he said. The land, with about three miles of Lake Ontario shoreline, was purchased by as a site for a nuclear power plant.

After plans to build a plant were shelved, the utility resisted efforts by the state Department of Environmental Con- Street Continued from Page 3 fication on the road's ownership. His response came on May 24 from G.Russell, director of highway maintenance. "Frankly, we have no significant advice to offer," Russell wrote. "The problem of maintenance of this road appears to be a tangled local issue which can be resolved only by litigation we regret we can not be of direct help in this matter." Brittain received his first concrete advice in July 1983, after writing to Darryl Harp, associate commissioner of legal affairs for the transportation department. Harp concluded that "Forest Home Drive has been a public highway in the normal sense of such a status since the termination of the Cortland and Seneca Turnpike Company," which built the road in the 19th century.

"Also it should be pointed out that as a public highway, the responsibility for its maintenance and repair within the priorities, manpower and fiscal resources of the city is the responsibility of the city," Harp wrote. Brittain presented Harp's decision to former Mayor William R. Shaw. In October 1983, Shaw sent his response to Brittain: "It is the opinion of our attorney that the judgement reached by Mr. Harp is not indisputable and in fact may be incorrect." As president of the Forest Home Improvement Association.

Brittain wrote to a third mayor about the Forest Home Drive problem after Mayor John Gutenberger assumed office. "Picking up the pieces trom a previous administration must be a difficult task, but I hope that Forest Home Drive does not become lost in the shuffle," Brittain wrote. On Tuesday, Gutenberger said his administration was working on the matter: "I've asked the city people involved to put it as one of the top priority items so that we can come to a conclusion on this matter as soon as possible," Gutenberger said. Stumbar said that the city is reviewing several options for the Forest Home issue. He also said that Harp's decision didn't settle the issue.

"It's his (Harp's) opinion and I don't think we would know for sure until we have a final order from the court," Stumbar said Tuesday. "I think probably they should have gotten a court decision on it a long time ago. It's just been a mutual finger pointing of Cornell at the city and the city at Cornell." According to Stumbar, the city is reviewing the possiblity of litigation, of more negotiations with Cornell, and "a third option which I am not free to discuss right now." "I think both parties have been afraid to go to court for fear that there would be a winner and a loser, but it comes to a point where there needs to be a binding decision," Stumbar said. DEC lifts sewer ban in Dryden DRYDEN As a result of the village's $1.4 million sewer improvement project, the state Department of Environmental Conservation this week lifted a five-year-old ban on new sewer extensions. "It's been hurting us," Mayor Michael Lane said of the sewer moratorium.

Now that it is lifted, it will make it easier for developers to add subdivisions in the village. The ban was begun in 1979 because the village's outdated Wall Street sewage treatment plant could not process waste to meet state effluent standards. The village has been awarded $1.2 million in federal and state funding to pay for 67'i percent of the improvement project. Lane said the village will borrow some 12 Mi in bond notes to pay for the remaining 12'i percent, about $174,000. The project is expected to begin this summer.

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