chemung county

The Chemung County Legislature passed a resolution last month approving a salary increase for the county executive. That’s the second pay bump for the position this year. But county residents have until September 11 to petition for a referendum on the November ballot, if they want to put the pay increase to a vote.

Term limits are now on the November ballot for Chemung County voters. The county legislature passed resolutions in May and June to bring the matter to the public to decide "yes" or "no" at the polls.

"In order to really encourage STEM education, we need to focus and start early."

"We're kind of hoping, and we're being promised that these test kits — over the counter test kits and antigen test kits — are going to become more readily available."

Residents can use their county's online portal to report at-home COVID-19 test results, and access isolation order paperwork to provide to their employer.

“We want to help offer these necessary health screenings to members of the community so that we can begin to address these various health and social needs, because they’re not separate, they’re actually connected.”

“People are tired, and we’ve seen a significant resurgence here. There’s a significant demand in our emergency rooms, in our COVID unit, in our ICU, and so, we need all hands on deck.”

"I'd love to be able to [test] our whole school, but you're talking, you know, 5000 tests a week. We do not have that capacity."

“In my view, the county taxpayers shouldn’t foot a bill for a crisis that we didn’t create."

"Lighthouse said all along that we would comply with New York State guidelines, but the county insisted that we go well above and beyond those guidelines as a condition of reopening."