PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE COUNTY OFFERS

PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE COUNTY OFFERS

Properties in the hospital garage footprint.

They could not strike a deal with four of them.

Now, oneida county's turn to try.

Those offers are out, and at least one property owner says....it's offensive.

Newschannel 2's joleen ferris reports.

Stand up .

None 21:15:41 "even as work is happening all around them, there are still four holdouts, refusing to sell their properties, in the hospital garage footprint" nat 29:18 'that should be enough" - followed by noise of him inserting it.

Joe cerini built his business machine repair business from nothing 24:23 "when i started in the business, i quit my job, i had a $300 credit card and i grew the business from scratch" 24:49 "figured i'd find someplace that i'd never have to worry about moving again" he moved to lafayette street 19 years ago.

Today, he has plenty of worries quick nat of construction the downtown utica hospital is being built around him.

But he refused to sell his property, which is in the parking garage footprint, to mvhs.

So now, it's oneida county's turn to try and persuade him.

That's not off to a good start 24:06 "i believe their figure is about $130,000 less than mvhs was willing to pay" cerini, along with the owners of this lot, this house, and enterprise rent a car, all in the parking garage footprint, now have formal offers from the county 11:47 "we've completed our appraisals and now that those are in, we sent those out with offers to the remaining propoerty owners in the footprint and we're awaiting a response from them so we haven't heard anything back, yet" cerini is willing to listen.....but so far, he doesn't like what he's hearing 28:49 "i'm just sticking it out.

I will talk price, but i'm not ...anything they've thrown at me is more an insult than a reliable offer" coming up new at six-where eminent domain fits in to all this.

Jf, nc2.

> with one day to go before the start of phase