The Wage Question: Where’S the Line Between Fair Pay for Employees and Too High a Burden for Employers? by Rob Montana Tompkins Weekly

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Locally Owned & Operated TompkinsWeekly.com Vol. 12, No. 39 The Wage Question: Where’s the line between fair pay for employees and too high a burden for employers? By Rob Montana Tompkins Weekly

very two years, Alternatives Federal Credit Union issues its Living Wage Study. EThe living wage – the update released in August saw it increase to $13.90 per hour for people who have employer-provided health insurance, $15.11 per hour for those who don’t – is meant to show how much people in Tompkins County need to earn to live here. That figure takes into account the cost of housing, transportation, food, communication, healthcare, recreation, savings, miscellaneous expenses and taxes. Now, compare that to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, and the New York state minimum wage of $9.70 per hour, and you’ll see a significant disparity. to that level. Especially if there is In Tompkins County, there are a large difference between current actually more than 100 businesses average wages and that living wage. and organizations – including “Instead policy should look Tompkins County’s government at increasing wages slowly to give positions – that pay a living wage. businesses time to adjust,” Kaletski But the conversation continues about added. “For instance, in New York, what’s fair pay and how much local the current policy increases wages by employers can afford to fork over Lance Stephen Elizabeth Kenny a dollar or so each year (depending before the burden becomes too much Compa Sweet Kaletski Christianson on location and industry), so for them to remain competitive in the businesses have time to figure out marketplace. remember that when the federal stagnate,” he said, noting that a strategies that will account for these So, where’s the line that achieves minimum wage was established, it period of about a decade in the 1990s increases in cost.” the most fair situation for both was on the basis of a living wage saw no increase. “If it was tied to a Sweet thinks a more localized employees and employers? equation. means for adjustment, it wouldn’t be approach to wages would be best. “It is an elusive target,” said “How much does it cost for a a political issue, and it wouldn’t be “The standard would have to Lance Compa, a senior lecturer house? How much does it cost to seen as something that is looking to be tied to the local community,” in Cornell University’s School of feed a family?,” he said. “The problem go above and beyond what minimum he said, noting that costs are Industrial and Labor Relations. “It’s is that calculation was never tied to wage was meant to be.” much different for people living in always going to come down to which any means for adjusting it. Elizabeth Kaletski, assistant Tompkins County, New York City side you’re on, whether employers “Families are spending a lot more professor of economics at Ithaca and Mississippi. make more profit or employees make today on basic needs than they did,” College, said cost of living calculators Alternatives living wage study is more wages. If you go to one side Sweet added. “A lower income family should be used to determine a fair “quite rigorous,” Compa said, adding too much, you’re going to wreck the may be spending more than half of wage for particular region. that it provides a good idea of how economy. their income on rent; in the 1960s, a “MIT has developed a well much people need to make to live “If employers rely on exploitation lower income family may be spending promoted one, but local organizations adequately. of labor to be profitable, the workers a third of their income on rent.” have created their own as well – it “You always come back to a are going to suffer,” he added. “If the Not providing a means for is thought that local organizations value question: What does adequate wages rise too high, businesses will changing minimum wage tied to would have a better pulse on what mean?” he said. “There is no final go out of business. It’s always about inflation or increasing cost of living individuals in the area need to meet answer on that, and it depends on finding the right balance.” is a big part of the problem, Sweet basic needs,” she said. “However, where one stands in terms of their Stephen Sweet, an Ithaca thinks. calculating wages based on cost of own values.” College professor in the sociology “Our adjustments to minimum living (living wage) doesn’t mean we department, said it’s important to wage are often political, and it can should automatically increase wages Continued on page 13

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2 Tompkins Weekly November 20-26, 2017 News Spotlight On ... Community Foundation of Tompkins County By Rob Montana This week we are highlighting showing how our funding will make Tompkins Weekly Community Foundation of Tompkins TW: How do you fulfill that the changes we want to see in the County. To learn more, we asked mission? community, now and in the future. on-profit organizations Chief Executive Officer George GF: Community Foundation A few of the many organizations are plentiful throughout Ferrari about the foundation’s role in assesses the needs in our community, we support include: Camp Kesem at Tompkins County, and make the community. raises funds, invests gifts from Cornell University, which offers a free a big impact in our communities. donors, and awards grants to week of summer camp for children N Tompkins Weekly: What is your nonprofit organizations addressing touched by a parent’s cancer. Catholic Despite their contributions, area nonprofits can sometimes go unnoticed mission? local challenges. We believe the Charities of Tompkins /Tioga or unknown. In an effort to shine a George Ferrari: The mission organizations that we support received our help to open a new safe spotlight on those who are making a of our Community Foundation is will demonstrate specific results Continued on page 7 difference in our county, Tompkins to improve the quality of life in Weekly will be showcasing these Tompkins County by inspiring and organizations on a regular basis. supporting enduring philanthropy.

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November 20-26, 2017 Tompkins Weekly 3 News Tompkins County’s SANTA RUN 5K & Joe Mareane takes medical leave, 1 MILE ELF WALK/RUN to retire early Tompkins Weekly Staff Presented By lready planning to retire Feb. 1, 2018, Tompkins County Administrator Joe Mareane willA be leaving his position earlier than that. Last week, Legislature Chairperson Michael Lane announced that Mareane would 9:00am be taking a medical leave from the county – which began Monday, November 13 – and will accelerate his retirement date. In the December 2 announcement, it noted that in an effort to focus on his recovery, Mareane informed Lane he would Dewitt Park, Ithaca retire at the end of this month, November 30. Mareane has been Tompkins County administrator since leaving Questions and Registration at: Ithacaymca.com — 607-257-0101 his post as Onondaga County’s Chief Fiscal Officer in October 2008. Taking the reins will be Deputy County Administrator Paula Younger, who will serve in an interim capacity pending the selection of Mareane’s replacement. The search process for the position is already well underway. Younger has been the county’s deputy administrator for the past 11 years.

4 Tompkins Weekly November 20-26, 2017 News Rotary launches 25th annual Share the Warmth campaign Tompkins Weekly Staff At right, Share the Warmth donation boxes are located at 20 collection sites thaca Rotary’s annual drive to around Tompkins County, such as this collect warm clothing for the one at Trumansburg Shur-Save. winter has begun again – for the 25th year. Tioga free of charge to individuals I who need such items for the winter The organization’s Share the Warmth campaign has kicked off months. Distribution will take with 20 collection sites around place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday Tompkins County. Donations of through Friday, December 4-15. Share the Warmth was initiated clean new or gently-used winter Photo by Kristy Montana / Tompkins Weekly clothing will be collected, sorted, by the Ithaca Rotary Club in 1987 on and distributed across the area by the Cornell campus and then in 1993 volunteers from a number of partner throughout the county. Last year, the program distributed more than Ness-Sibley Funeral Home organizations: Ithaca, Dryden, and Serving the community 3,350 items to 510 households across Trumansburg Rotary Clubs, Cornell with dignity and compassion University, Ithaca College, Catholic Tompkins County. Charities of Tompkins/Tioga and For more information about Finger Lakes ReUse. Share the Warmth, please contact Alison M. Weaver All winter clothing in good repair Loralyn Light at [email protected]. Additional information about the Owner/Funeral Director is accepted. There is a special need 23 South Street,Trumansburg [email protected] for larger-sized clothing (2X and up) Rotary Club of Ithaca may be found (607) 387-8151 www.ness-sibley.com and large-sized boots (13 and up), as at IthacaRotary.com. well as coats, snow pants, boots, hats, scarves, gloves, and mittens for all— SHARED PURPOSE. MUTUAL VALUES.TM and blankets. Each article of clothing donated should be new or gently used, and clean for future recipients. The familiar “red box” collection bins can be found at locations around the county, including Agway True Value Home Center (Cayuga Mall), We’re in this CFCU Community Credit Union (main branches), Gimme! Coffee (506 W. MLK Jr./State St.), Island together. Health & Fitness (Taughannock Blvd. and Community Corners), We meet with our local, independent Ithaca College Campus Center, agent, once a year, to update our Ithaca High School Main Office, Security Mutual home, business Kendal at Ithaca, P&C Fresh, Seneca Place (inside the Tioga and personal property insurance. Street entrance), SPCA of Tompkins County Annex (Shops at Ithaca We know and trust our hometown, Mall), Triphammer Marketplace independent agent and choose Security (outside Ithaca Bakery), Wegmans, Mutual Insurance — where decisions YMCA, Trumansburg Shur-Save, and the Rite Aid in Dryden, as well are always based on what’s right for us as at locations around the Cornell because mutuals serve policyholders, campus. not shareholders. Each location will be accessible for a five-week collection period, scheduled to conclude on Tuesday, December 12. Clothes will be picked up by Finger Lakes ReUse, sorted by Rotary volunteers, and readied for Ithaca / 319.0094 Ithaca / Trumansburg distribution through the Samaritan Dryden / 844.8626 Dryden / Cortland Cortland / 756.2805 Ithaca / 273.4732 Center of Catholic Charities. The larkininsurance.com Ithaca / 273.5353 257.4440 donated clothing is then distributed baileyplace.com haylor.com tompkinsins.com by Catholic Charities of Tompkins/

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November 20-26, 2017 Tompkins Weekly 5 Street Opinion 2nd Annual ‘By the People’ Issue coming eat By Rob Montana A multitude of submissions came It was so much fun to see what TheB word on the street Tompkins Weekly in, featuring a wide array of writing our readers had to share around the from around Tompkins County styles, as well as some wonderful topic of “love,” and to share it with By Kristy Montana ast year, Tompkins Weekly ran imagery to accompany the text on everyone in Tompkins County. its inaugural “By the People” our pages. And the response was so positive, we’re doing it again this year. Well, uestion: What is your favorite issue featuring our readers’ work. technically, it will be next year, kind of pie? L coming out in the January 1, 2018, Q issue of Tompkins Weekly. So here’s the deal: Send us your creative expressions, whether they are articles, essay, poems, photos and artwork, and we will print as many as we can. We do ask that they be original content created by the individual submitting the work. The theme for this year’s “By the People” issue is: Perseverance. All contributions and questions “Pizza pie.” should be sent to me – Managing — Mark Devokaitis, Trumansburg Editor Rob Montana – via email at [email protected]. “Concord grape pie.” We can’t wait to see what you — Kate Frazer, Trumansburg come up with.

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6 Tompkins Weekly November 20-26, 2017 Opinion/News Gratitude Pairings, Naturally erry Ground, Turtle Clan Observatory on Cornell’s campus. (Onondaga Nation) member, Open from 8 p.m. to midnight on the cultural educator, and Cornell academic schedule, regardless Pprofessional Native American of weather, the Observatory is an storyteller, has presented “Rethinking experience to take in this season. Thanksgiving” several times in Looking at our galaxy and beyond Ithaca in recent years. He explains serves as a useful reminder of scale, that while our country sets aside and how tiny we are in the cosmos. a single day on the calendar in For every constellation you identify, honor of giving thanks, among the match it to a gratitude of tiny scale. Haudenosaunee people, giving thanks Give thanks for something very is a daily practice and way of life. small that happened today that you might not normally appreciate. Pair with pizza moons to enjoy ahead of Into The time, a thermos of hot cocoa, and constellation cookies. Or substitute Great Outdoors Swiss cheese and a quick and easy By Erin Marteal Craters of the Moon Cake for a quicker bit. n Acorn Hunter. Whether you Based on a body of research and live in the rural countryside or in data, we generally understand that downtown Ithaca, chances are high Photo from HandmadeCharlotte.com/constellation-cookies gratitude has positive effects on our that you are within walking distance Constellation cookies would pair well with a visit to Fuertes Observatory at Cornell. health, mood, and happiness. We also of an oak tree. Bring a basket with know through volumes of data that you and hunt for acorns. Collect as the back of the drawer and set aside inlet, waterfall or Cayuga Lake. spending time in contact with nature many acorns and acorn caps as you with a container and potting soil for Notice the sounds and the feeling of improves mental and physical health can find, and with everyone you add the kids to pot up for some life on the air and any changes in plant and and decreases some of the conditions to your basket, say out loud the name the window sill through the dark animal activity since your last visit that impede happiness: Anxiety, of a plant or animal that provides months. Pair with apple kale salad here. Consider all the ways water depression and negative rumination, something of value to your life. and warm baguette. shapes our lives, and all the ways among others. When you have finished collecting, n The Places We Go. Getting we rely on water every day. See how If you have a regular practice consider making a gift out of the around is a necessity for much of many ways you are thankful for the of gratitude, or spending time in acorns – such as an acorn-edged life – grocery shopping, getting to abundance of water in your life. Too nature, then you personally know the frame around a favorite photo – and work and school, exercise, and it is cold? Head to the top floor of the benefits. If you don’t, perhaps one of gift it to someone in your life who also an important part of what our Johnson Museum of Art and gaze the following scenarios will help peel you don’t normally recognize. Pair area offers for recreation. However at the lake from the warm indoors. you out of your favorite chair, shed with chocolate peanut butter acorn mobility is riddled with challenges Pair with seaweed snacks, goldfish the fluffy slippers, and entice you into cookies and warm raspberry tea. n for many. Choose a non-motorized crackers, and fish (or veggie) stew. the wondrous (outdoor) world of Apples of the Earth. Where mode of transportation – walking, Regardless of whether you take gratitude, naturally. would we be without our hearty, cycling, skateboarding, rollerblading, on any of these suggested gratitude To help facilitate more comforting, versatile potatoes? Host scootering, etc. – and go on a pairings, perhaps your Thanksgiving happiness this Thanksgiving season a casual gathering of friends to make 10-minute gratitude brainstorm gratitude attitude can linger a little and beyond, I have put together a a simple dinner of potato leek soup journey. Note everything in your longer this holiday season, and “tasting menu” of outdoor activities together. Invite each one to bring a environment that you are grateful for. generate happiness to share all with a suggestion for weaving in potato or leek to contribute to the Go for quantity over quality. When through the year. gratitude, along with a recommended pot. For every item that is added to you get back home, write down as – – – accompanying bite and beverage. Bon the meal, invite the contributor to many gratitudes as you can recall and Erin, who has has served Ithaca Appetit! share a gratitude about something add any new gratitudes that surface. Children’s Garden as its executive (Pairings curated to be yummy very basic in their life that they have Put them on display if you wish. Pair director since 2011, would love to hear for all ages. Google search recipe never before expressed gratitude with wheel pasta salad and fresh pear about your experiences with any of these titles and find the one that fits your for. This could be as simple as “I’m slices. pairings – or any pairings of your own time and energy levels.) grateful for my thumb that allows me n n Water Water Everywhere. – that enhance gratitude and outdoor Star Gazer. It’s Friday night to hold this spoon to stir the pot.” Visit your nearest natural water nature in your life! She can be reached at and you’re heading to the Fuertes Pull the old sprouted potatoes from source – whether it’s a stream, creek, [email protected]. Foundation Continued from page 3 cross-section of our community, TW: What is something people do As one donor told us, “Part of including people with different not know about your organization? the reason I go to the Community interests, experiences and socio- GF: We are one of 872 Foundation is that they know the haven for women who are homeless economic backgrounds, so we can Community Foundations in the local issues, challenges, and needs.” or at risk of homelessness. And Kids learn what works well and how to United States, which engage Discover the Trail! leveraged our build on that success. communities large and small in TW: How can people best support grant funding to expand its field trips philanthropy. Our Community your mission? to eight cultural sites in Tompkins TW: What are the biggest challenges Foundation was established in GF: We believe that everyone County to elementary school children your organization faces? 2000 by local not-for-profit and can be a philanthropist. A from all of the county’s six school GF: One of our biggest needs is philanthropic leaders who felt meaningful way for individuals to districts. for flexible support for programs and that Tompkins County needed a address the continuing needs of The first step in the grantmaking donor services. Donors help us meet local resource for people to use in Tompkins County is to make a gift process is gathering information the most pressing needs with their addressing local needs. to Community Foundation. We also about the challenges our community gifts. We also seek long-term support Since then, we have awarded welcome individuals who want to faces through focus groups, to sustain our impact on growing more than $11 million to nonprofit make a planned gift with a bequest in community gatherings as well as the quality of life in Tompkins organizations in Tompkins County your will or IRA beneficiary. meetings with other funders, donors County for years to come by building through nearly 2,700 grants. In 2016 Another way is to volunteer. and experts in the field. This process both grantmaking and operating alone, we distributed nearly $2.1 Call us, complete a volunteer form builds awareness of the issues endowments. million in grants to local nonprofits. on our website or inquire about our that stakeholders identify are top We could not make the impact As the largest public charity board. Offering your time, talent, priorities. We then use this feedback in our community nor carry out grantmaker in Tompkins County, treasure and voice about what you to guide our grantmaking and our work without our donors. Community Foundation is unique can do to improve our community strategic planning. Community Foundation serves compared to other philanthropic is an incredible way to support our Community Foundation vulnerable populations while organizations. We use community mission. magnifies local philanthropy by addressing systemic change through represented review teams to advise collaborating with other funders and greater collaboration among funders us in the process of awarding grants – – – working to build relationships among and nonprofits in the community. to local organizations. And we award our donors. We engage people with Because of the generous support grants to nonprofits from all sectors, For more information, visit similar interest areas so that they can of our donors, we continue this including those that are focused on CFTompkins.org or Facebook.com/ work together toward a common important work. arts and culture, the environment, CFTompkins. goal. We also work with a diverse and education. November 20-26, 2017 Tompkins Weekly 7 Arts & Entertainment Gregory’s skills showcased in Kitchen’s ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ By Sue Henninger Gregory needs professional help, he Tompkins Weekly miserably reflects that he has begun to live with the certainty that there Every Brilliant Thing, Duncan could be a moment “when one no Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, longer wanted to live.” Overcome by Kitchen Theatre Company, through despair, yet unwilling to give up hope, December 10, (607) 272-0570, Gregory reaches out to the one adult KitchenTheatre.org. No intermission. he felt like he could talk to honestly, an act of faith that opens the door to udience engagement with reengagement with the world around Duncan Macmillan’s (with him. Jonny Donahoe) simple, but Wendy Dann has done a emotionally layered, play began well spectacular job of directing this A bittersweet, roller coaster of a play, in before theatergoers even took their seats. which music (Don Tindall, Sound Entering KTC’s lobby we found Design) also plays a significant role a display board with pens, Post-It in. Every Brilliant Thing is a play notes, and the invitation to share that only an actor with Gregory’s our own “brilliant” things, postings technical skill, ingenuity, sense of Photo by Dave Burbank that ranged from serious to tongue- humor, and willingness to show in-cheek. Once in the theater itself, Karl Gregory in “Every Brilliant Thing,” on stage now through December 10 at the human vulnerability could pull seats had been relocated to both sides Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca. off. The way the play is scripted, of the stage, leaving a narrow strip in Gregory is granted the freedom the center where the one-man show This graceful and poignant receptiveness to other family to spontaneously choose the way was performed. Actor Karl Gregory, introduction to loss was followed members, through his choice of he wishes to interact with the a longtime Ithaca favorite, roamed by a dual scene. In the first instance, records, reminding us of how acutely audience, which he uses to maximum the aisles handing out slips of paper Gregory is picked up at elementary tuned in children can be to their advantage, frequently asking audience along with instructions to read the school by his father who takes him environments. members to play opposite sex roles. sentence aloud when he called out to the hospital his mother has been The audience follows Gregory His husband Sam was portrayed your number. These were received by admitted to following an unsuccessful and his quirky, life-affirming list (quite expertly!) by a young woman, some with enthusiasm, others with attempt to end her life. On the drive (which he continues to add to) and a man was highly credible as trepidation, however no one was able there, father and son try to navigate through adolescence, his mother’s Gregory’s empathic female counselor. to resist Gregory’s persuasive charms. this emotionally fraught occurrence second suicide attempt, college years, The performance you see may These initial interactions literally through a series of questions and and his first love, Sam. Over the years not be identical to the play I saw, set the stage for Gregory to enlist answers. the list grows longer, serving as a but that’s the beauty of it. Though various audience members to serve as Gregory then confesses that means of helping him communicate the basic plotline will remain the supporting characters throughout the this was actually how he wished the positively with Sam and others in his same, the playwright has left a lot of play. conversation had gone. In reality he life. Things finally seem to be going room for variation, a reminder that Every Brilliant Thing is the said, when he asked his father why well for the likable Gregory, so it is each person’s experience with mental story of a nameless son whose his mother was in the hospital, the disheartening when he begins to self- illness may be very different, though mother is depressed and suicidal. unhelpful response was that she’d sabotage his happiness, becoming the accompanying emotions are often In the opening scene, Gregory’s “done something stupid..” Left to argumentative, angry and isolating similar. elderly dog, Sherlock Bones, needs fend for himself in the hospital himself. A strength of the Kitchen to be euthanized by the family waiting room, the boy begins his list Perhaps the most moving words Theatre Company has been its veterinarian. This is the young boy’s of “brilliant things,” trying to cheer of the play were when Gregory directors’ willingness to take a chance first experience with death and he himself, and perhaps his mother, up. confessed that, for many children of with cutting-edge characters and speaks eloquently of thinking about He and his father return parents diagnosed with depression, topics. If the first three plays of the the things of Sherlock’s that would home without her and his father a debilitating fear is that one day, 2017-2018 season are any indication, no longer be necessary – the dog’s immediately retreats to his office not only will they feel like that Producing Artistic Director M. Bevin toys, food and leash – and of how he to listen to music. Young Gregory parent, but that genetics and learned O’Gara seems to be turning up the suddenly understood that a loved one provides a surprisingly insightful behavior will cause them to actually heat at KTC by experimenting with had gradually morphed into an object explanation of how his father become that parent. Later, when Sam the theatre’s physical environment as and was being “taken away from him communicates his mood, and has left him, suggesting that well. So far this has resulted in some forever.” unforgettable performances! ‘Abstracting the Figure’ exhibition on display at Kitchen Theatre Tompkins Weekly Staff Montreal Art Center in Canada. In describing the work now being he Kitchen Theatre doesn’t exhibited at the Kitchen, Sampson just have a new play on stage, said his paintings “start from figure it has new artwork in its drawings that I either paint on top of gallery.T or transfer to canvas.” The exhibition “Abstracting “I am interested in gestural, the Figure: Paintings by Michael quick compositions from the live Sampson” is on display in the Judith model that I can build on as my Holliday Gallery at the theater, paintings progress. Though abstract, through December 15. A reception my paintings assert multiple readings, with artist Michael Sampson will which I very much allow and hope take place from 5-7 p.m. Friday, for in each piece,” he said. “I think December 1, at the gallery. The of the model as a collaborator. I Kitchen Theatre, and its gallery, is am finding shapes and lines in the located at 417 W. MLK Jr./State St. model’s body, but I am also making in Ithaca. a picture about them. The colors Sampson has a bachelor of fine and textures reveal something I am arts degree from Monserrat College conveying about the model, and as and has been exhibiting his work in my muse the model breathes life into this region since 2003. A member of my work which would not be there if the State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca, I was not working with a model.” his work has been seen at CSMA The gallery is open one hour Photo Provided Gallery, Sola Art Gallery in Ithaca, before every performance. For more Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial information about Michael Sampson, A painting by Michael Sampson, titled “Julie, Montreal.” Art Gallery in Rochester; and visit MichaelFSampson.com. 8 Tompkins Weekly November 20-26, 2017 News County beautification program awards community efforts Tompkins Weekly Staff Legislator Dan Klein, D-7th District. Award for a Civic Association and Larry plant and maintain The Community Beautification was presented to Linda and Larry hundreds of flowering annuals as well rea businesses, organizations Award for a Business was presented Stilwell, members of the Enfield as hanging baskets in front of the Continued on page 12 and volunteers were to Elmira Savings Bank for Volunteer Fire Department. Linda recognized for their efforts to landscaping around its new branch beautify their corners of the county. office on the corner of State and A Meadow streets. The landscaping The Tompkins County Community Beautification Program features shrubs, perennials and presented their honors, launched in ornamental grasses all around the Fencing & Supply 2016, earlier this month. Winners building and parking lot, and has Samuel Zook were selected from nominees in transformed this major intersection • Equine • Livestock • Poultry • Custom Post Pounding four categories: Business, Civic in downtown Ithaca. 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10 Tompkins Weekly November 20-26, 2017 Sponsored by BUSINESS Cayuga Ridge healthcare facility plans renovation, 49 new jobs

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12 Tompkins Weekly November 20-26, 2017 News Cayuga Continued from page 11 As part of the renovation and expansion of medical and wellness facilities, the owners is updated to meet new rules plan to add 49 positions to and regulations in patient care, the current staff count of 141. as well as meet the NYSDOH Of the 49 positions, most are accessibility standards. The facility nurses (eight RNs, 14 LPNs) or will shrink from 160 beds, to 140, nurse’s aides (16 CNAs), with plus two respite beds (planned or ten service positions and a new emergency temporary care provided administrative position. CNAs to caregivers of developmentally make $13.62/hour, and service disabled or delayed individuals, staff $11.34/hour; LPN wages so that the caregivers may have a average $18.97/hour, and RNs short break). The plan is to keep the $25.38/hour. With the $26.67/ facility operational while renovations hour admin role, it means a are underway. little less than half (23 of 49) To help make the project work will make above the living wage, financially, the owners are seeking which is $13.90-$15.11/hour a sales tax exemption from the depending on insurance benefits. county IDA. Unlike the property tax Pending IDA approval of abatement that focus on property tax the sales tax exemption, the assessment, a sales tax exemption is project is set to start in January, a waiver from needing to pay taxes Photo by The Ithaca Voice and finish up by March 2019. on construction materials and new Cayuga Ridge, located on Route 96 between Ithaca and Trumansburg, is planning a ren- Syracuse’s Schopfer Architects furnishings, and typically much ovation of its facilities and the addition of 49 new jobs. is in charge of the new building lower in value than a property tax layout, with Dunn and Sgromo abatement. The savings, if granted, PLLC serving as the civil and would be $738,720 off the $21 gap between projected renovation unattended to for decades and the structural engineers for the million renovation. hard and soft costs, and our operating costs to renovate are significantly project. LeChase Construction, a “An exemption of state and local budget,” wrote Sympaticare CEO higher because of the long-term Rochester-based construction firm sales tax is being requested for the Shalom Braunstein in the application decline.” involved in several local projects, will purpose of assisting us in closing the to the IDA. “The facility has been be the general contractor. ACROSS Wages 1. Holds candles Continued from page 1 is the best way to approach it. 7. In possession of “Fostering union organization in 10. Rodents low wage sectors is the way to go; I 12. Type of cofactor (Brit. Sweet noted that those earning would allow workers to organize on sp.) minimum wage are often able to 13. 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By Tim Donnelly Tim Donnelly: How emotional of TD: Let me ask you this, as a came from at the beginning of the ESPN Ithaca a game was this, how emotional of a former player in this program, what year and how they progressed. The win was this when you think back to the does this championship mean to you, biggest thing is they were one big ecently man that coached you, Adam Heck, who kind of stepping out of your coaching unit. It was one unit going for one on ESPN was a large part of the development of shoes? common goal. You know, they stuck Ithaca’s this team and a large part of the coming BP: You know, it’s huge for all to it. There were a couple ups and Between the together of this roster? of the alumni. Especially those the downs, especially early on, but once R Benji Parkes: You know, it was last seven years. They’ve been on that we found our groove, we were pretty Lines, host Tim Donnelly spoke 21 years in the making. It’s been that stage and they’ve understood what consistent and we were pretty focused with Benji Parkes, long and he took the first 20 and it’s like to get there and just not win, and I think that was the biggest part head coach Tim Donnelly I’ve been lucky enough to take the but for all the guys that have come of this group. They were focused the of the newly last two. But, for us to be on this run through Lansing, from 1997 and entire way and they had goals to go crowned state in the last seven years and to finally before, it’s one big family and finally out on top. champion Lansing Bobcat Boys seal the deal, that was the biggest we have something to show for it. – – – Soccer Team. Here is a snippet of part and I think that is why it was Listen to Between the Lines with that conversation; to hear the full so emotional, because we’ve been so TD: What is it about this team, this Tim Donnelly from 4-5 p.m. weekdays interview, visit ESPN Ithaca’s on- close and we heard Ben Kutler on roster, that made them able to get over on ESPN Ithaca (1160 AM/107.1 demand PodCenter at ESPNIthaca. the call yesterday and to be so close the hump? What was different about FM) and ESPNIthaca.com. com. so many times and to finally get the them as apposed to the last seven years? final victory it was awesome. BP: It’s interesting to look back at this group and to see where it Perfect Continued from page 20 sophomore Yanni Kaldis notched a Cornell got its chance late in the received a pass in the center of the power play goal for the Big Red to third. Harvard took an abundance of offensive zone and buried his shot to narrow the deficit to one. penalties, which gave the Big Red an put the Lynah crowd into a frenzy The 151st all-time meeting Cornell kept the pressure extended 5-on-3 power play. Cornell and clinch the win. between the Ivy League foes seemed on to open the second stanza, as could not convert with the two-man The scream to the rafters from like it would go the way of the men sophomore Jeff Malott tallied a goal advantage, but with time winding McCrea and his teammates kept the from Cambridge once again, as of his own just 1:15 into the period down on the clock, they made sure Big Red undefeated at 6-0 on the Harvard jumped out to a 2-0 lead to even the teams at two. the chance did not go by the wayside. season and completed the day’s storm late in the first period. Then, with 44 The following period and a half With just three seconds left with a celebration. seconds to play in the opening frame, was a battle by both sides, but then in the game, junior Alec McCrea Lansing Continued from page 20 The oldest Parkes brother took “It was absolutely crazy,” said Pierson Bridgehampton, 2-0, the day over as head coach of the team last Nick Parkes. “I thought of all of our before in the state semifinal, with season when longtime coach Adam seniors and coach Heck. He was Nick Parkes’ first half goal going to claim the program’s first-ever state Heck unexpectedly passed away. willing us through and I knew that down as the game-winner. The goal title. The goal ignited a celebration Heck had started what became we were going to get one. We had so also completed the team’s redemption from the Bobcat bench and their fan an almost annual tradition for the many opportunities and we just had season after they fell in the state section in Middletown, as years of Bobcats in Middletown. Including to keep running.” semifinal round last year to World of hard work had finally paid off. this fall, Lansing had reached the “It’s all built from coach Heck,” Inquiry. “It’s 27 of us that have been on New York State Final Four for six said Benji Parkes. “The love for This season, the team lost its a journey all year,” said head coach out of the past seven seasons, but had soccer in the community was built second game of the year back in Benji Parkes. “It started back in never won both games there. from coach Heck. He’s the one that mid-September before their 15-game August and this is what they wanted Now, after the Bobcats won 14 developed these kids and we’ve been winning streak carried them the to have at the end of the year. For us straight games heading into the title working on this for 20 years.” rest of the way. Their best challenge to finally get here and play a fantastic tilt, they were finally able to break The goal capped off the season against the streak came against a game, that’s what it comes down to.” through and complete the job. at 20-2 for the Bobcats, who beat Byron-Bergen/Elba team that scored the first goal of the game, before Langston Hopkins tied the score at one before halftime. After a scoreless second half and an overtime session without a tally, the second overtime period was the last chance for either team, as if they stayed scoreless after that, the teams would be crowned co-champions. So, with just less than 10 minutes left to play in the game, magic struck. “I knew something special was going to happen,” said Nick Parkes on the goal. “I was a manager back in 2012 when they [Benji and the rest of the Bobcats] won it with baseball and he was a senior, so I knew something special was bound to happen.” His older brother did not forget that memory of glory from a few years ago either. “This is what he always wanted,” said Parkes on his younger brother. “When we won a state title in baseball he was on the bench for that, so he knew what it would take and it’s nice to see him get the recognition for it.” The team’s recognition continued well after the game ended, as hordes of people gathered at the high school that night to greet them and properly welcome the team that was finally able to break through and make decades of frustration worth it for the community. 14 Tompkins Weekly November 20-26, 2017 November 20-26, 2017 Tompkins Weekly 15 News Wages Continued from page 13 but cautioned it wasn’t a perfect minimum wage that is higher than be more than the pay increase for solution. the federal rate, and most allow for the employees you already have,” “Part of the problem is that a less than minimum wage for a said Christianson. “Employers “sweet spot.” unions historically fought for the probationary or training period. are concerned about profits being “There is compromise,” he said, interests of its members. If you have “I think it’s reasonable to have reduced, and it might not be easy for “where nobody wins, but also nobody a union workforce, even at peak something marginally lower for a them to raise their prices, depending loses.” membership, there still might be two training wage, to take into account on the market. But, if they have In the lower range of the or three employees that are not union training costs,” he said. “That’s a workforce happy enough to be labor market, such as those members,” he said. “They would reasonable, but you want to guard productive, they can figure out a cost earning minimum wages, unions be left behind because they’re not against companies rotating people in structure so they can stay in business.” and collective bargaining is not engaged in the collective bargaining, and out at subminimum wages.” Christianson said a basic widespread, Compa said. because they’re not union members. Kenny Christianson, a lecturer argument he has in the classroom is “So, you’re left with public policy “But, collective bargaining does in economics at Ithaca College and one used by employers that say they’ll choices about minimum wage,” he increase leverage and helps level the a senior lecturer in economics at have to either lay off employees said. playing field,” Sweet added. Binghamton University, said workers or increase their prices to remain Sweet said collective bargaining Compa noted that more than who earn low wages are not as financially viable, if minimum wages could help to create equitable wages, half of the states in the U.S. have a productive, for a variety of reasons. increase. His response to that is that They tend to get sick more, have increased productivity will offset lower morale and are more likely to those payroll cost increases. be absent from work. “If the workers make more, “For employees, you need to they often are going to be more be able to have enough pay to productive, and a firm can cover support yourself,” he said, adding those costs, because the workers are support means enough to cover basic providing more output for the firm,” necessities. Christianson said. While payroll is a large chunk of He noted a study done of fast employers’ budget expense, turnover food workers along the New Jersey- is a larger issue. Pennsylvania border in the 1990s. “If you have more turnover, “New Jersey raised minimum the cost of training workers might wage and Pennsylvania didn’t,” said Christianson. “The workers in New Jersey became more productive, there was better morale and the firms were able to keep their workers and keep paying the higher wage. “If workers are happy, they’re less likely to leave their jobs,” he added. “When you’re paying low wages, it basically limits the amount of workers that are available.” Sweet pushed back against the argument of those who say minimum wages are typically paid to teens who are working afterschool or on weekends. “If you look at the typical minimum wage worker, most commonly they are adults, not teenagers,” he said. “They are far more commonly women, not men, and there are differences on the basis of race and geography. “If you walk into a McDonald’s or Target, places that are lower wage employers, look at who is servicing you,” Sweet added. “Also, teenagers are working less and less now than they were two decades ago. 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16 Tompkins Weekly November 20-26, 2017 News Wages Continued from page 16 be offset in some way. in cost, but it will result in a higher a minimum wage, they will find more “Neoclassical economic theory burden for them.” ways to be productive and profitable.” says that as the price of something Compa said one benefit of raising Kaletski said there are many – resulting in fewer job opportunities increases, the quantity demand of minimum wage or establishing a costs and benefits to increasing the or less hours of work. that decreases (price and quantity living wage – as long as it doesn’t minimum wage. “It may also result in the increase move in opposite directions),” she become an untenable amount – is “One of the major benefits in prices for consumers on certain said. “It’s the same way with the that it forces employers to be more often overlooked is the marginal products,” she said. “It is further labor market – as wages (the price) effective. propensity to consumers of lower possible that it could increase increases, firms will hire less workers “Rather than just holding and middle income households,” inflation as a widespread increase (the quantity). down wages to keep profits where she said. “A boost in their real wages in costs would increase prices of “As it turns out the empirical they want them, employers learn would induce increased demand on a products across the board, but I don’t literature indicates that the first thing how to better use technology, to do variety of products – when they have think there’s much evidence that this a firm does in response to increases better marketing, better research more money, they are more likely to occurs.” in the cost of labor is to cut hours, and development, better planning turn around and spend that money Kaletski said those employer not fire employees,” Kaletski added. of workflow,” he said. “These are all (while higher income individuals may arguments are legitimate, because an “Firms’ owners can be quite creative things that management controls.. If save it), leading to higher economic increase in cost of labor will have to in how they deal with an increase they understand they have to provide growth.”

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n Saturday, November 11, a perfect storm took place in Ithaca, the likes of which the Ocity had never seen before. There was a chill in the air, but snow did not fall from the sky, and no raindrops could be felt. Instead of precipitation, high winds, or thunder and lightning, the storm brought celebration and jubilation. On the “perfect” Saturday, arguably the two biggest sporting events in Ithaca happened on the same day. The 59th Annual Cortaca Jug, which pits the football teams from Ithaca College and SUNY Cortland against each other, and the biannual Cornell University men’s hockey game versus Harvard was home at Lynah Rink. Never in history have both of these games been in Ithaca on the same day – ever. In 1997, the Big Red defeated Harvard 5-2 on November 7, then Photo by Dave Burbank the Bombers fell to the Red Dragons 33-28 on the following day. Up until Cornell University men’s hockey players — and the Lynah faithful — celebrate after junior Alex McCrea scored with three last Saturday, that was the closest seconds remaining to lift the Big Red to victory over Harvard. Below, Ithaca College football players celebrate after defeat- the two games have ever been played ing SUNY Cortland, 48-20, to win the 59th Annual Cortaca Jug game. Cortland had won the past 7 meetings. together. A Rensselaer Polytechnic But this year, the dates aligned. Institute victory over Union on the Starting out at Butterfield same day took away the Bombers’ Stadium, the Bombers were looking hopes of an NCAA playoff berth, but at a chance to clinch a spot in the Nabi and company still put smiles on NCAA playoffs under first-year head the faces of IC fans as they left the coach Dan Swanstrom. The Red gates on the South Hill. Dragons, who had won the previous While the Bombers were seven Cortaca Jug games, stood in wrapping up their rivalry victory, their way. the Cornell men’s hockey team was The recent script of Cortland making their way to Lynah Rink domination was quickly flipped to welcome in their archrival, the the other way, as IC ran out to a Harvard Crimson. The Big Red had 34-6 halftime lead with freshman experienced futility against their quarterback Wahid Nabi leading the hated opponent as well, as Cornell way with five touchdown passes. Nabi had not defeated Harvard in the ended the day with six scores in total previous six matchups, including and the Bombers cruised to a 48-20 last season’s ECAC Championship victory to reclaim the jug for the first Game. time since 2009. Continued on page 14 Photo by Tim McKinney / Ithaca College Athletics At last! Lansing boys soccer claims first-ever state championship By Will LeBlond Tompkins Weekly

fter two years of grief, change and frustration, the Lansing boys soccer team – and the communityA – got something to celebrate: A state championship. On Sunday, November 12, Nick Parkes dribbled into the 18-yard box against Byron-Bergen/Elba and scored just inside the far post to give Lansing a 2-1 win in double overtime Continued on page 14 At left, Lansing’s boys soccer team celebrates winning the program’s first- Photo by Peter Parkes ever state championship.

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