By Chad Neal
Ellicottville has been doing a lot of building and rearranging in the Village and it hasn’t gone unnoticed by the New York Conference of Mayors. In 2019 Mayor Burrell was happy to accept The Local Government Achievement Award from NYCOM for “jointly working with the Town [of Ellicottville] to develop our own Engineering Department.” This year at the conference in Bolton Landing, New York on Lake George at the Sagamore Resort he accepted another award for the work that was recently done in the village over the past year called “Dig Once”.
Mayor John Burrell wrote an informative paragraph to share the accolade!
Barbara Van Epps to his right and
NYCOM President for 2024-2025
Ruth Ann Loveless.
“Once again the Village of Ellicottville is an award winner. The New York Conference of Mayors (NYCOM) at it’s Annual Meeting presented the Local Government Achievement Award for our “Dig Once” project. By working with the Town of Ellicottville we were able to have a completely new water distribution system on Elizabeth Street and a complete rebuild of the street (underground and surface storm water collection, new sub base gravel, sidewalks, curbing, driveway approaches and asphalt paving). This was accomplished with the Town and Village using the same engineering firm (B&L) and construction company (JD Northrup). From the time excavation started to the finished product, residences on the street were only inconvenienced for one year. This was an amazing feat for our community. On behalf of the Village, I accepted this award from NYCOM Executive Director Barbara Van Epps and President Ruth Ann Loveless.”
Mayor Burrell is very active with NYCOM as he is now on the Board of Executives. He helped to swear in the new president of NYCOM this year Mayor William Aiello of Olean who will hold the seat for the next year.
(Pictured with Mayor Burrell is Barbara Van Epps to his right and NYCOM President for 2024-2025 Ruth Ann Loveless)