radioNOVO News for Elmira/Corning 05-20-26

Good morning, School districts across the Southern Tier are wrapping up ballot counts following yesterday’s annual school budget and board elections. Residents in Elmira and Corning-Painted Post voted on multi-million dollar spending plans, including a proposed zero-percent tax levy increase in Elmira designed to protect services without raising taxes.Meanwhile, Elmira City Manager Michael Collins has announced his retirement next month after a decade leading daily city operations. Collins guided the city through tight financial budgets, though his tenure faced recent controversy over a lawsuit from a former police chief. City Chamberlain Charmain Cattan will step in as interim manager on June thirteenth.And the state DEC is launching a pair of Corning environmental cleanups totaling over five million dollars. Crews will begin removing soil contaminated with lead and mercury at the Corning Fire Department late this month, followed by a massive four-and-a-half million dollar remediation project at Williams Street Park in June.More news on our radioNOVO app -- Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.