The Rochester City Council has approved the 2018 City Budget and City School District budgets. The vote for the city budget Tuesday night was unanimous. The school budget passed by a vote of 8-1, with council Finance Committee Chair Carolee Conklin voting “no.” Conklin said in a letter to council members that she was voting […]
Rochester’s red light camera program is over at the end of the month, but the vote by city council to abolish it wasn’t unanimous. Mayor Lovely Warren’s measure to end the six-year-old program passed six-to-three, with council members Matt Haag, Carolee Conklin and Molly Clifford voting to keep it. The mayor thanked the council for […]
Democrat Matt Haag says increasing job demands and family health issues make it impossible for him to run for a third term on the Rochester City Council. Haag isn’t the only council member standing down at the end of next year. Democrat Carolee Conklin says her third term is also her last (Haag and Conklin […]