HARTWICK SEMINARY - Eddie Einhorn will have two new players on his Cooperstown Youth Baseball team when he submits his new application to the town planning board.

But whether the planning board will accept his application at its December 12 meeting is still in question.

"Plumley Engineering, on behalf of Peter Huntington, Paul Ingalls, current citizens of the Town of Hartwick and the current landholders of the property in question, along with CYB, Inc., will be submitting a long form SEQR and preliminary site plan for Cooperstown Baseball Complex to be entered into the record formally at your next meeting on December 12," Einhorn wrote in a letter to the planning board late last week.

Ingalls verfied Tuesday afternoon that he was acting as a co-applicant with Einhorn, but was not a partner.

"Einhorn always wanted us to get involved, but we're not investors," he said.

Ingalls speculated that Einhorn might believe it will make things easier if the two landowners are co-applicants on the project. "But he still has to go through the process," he said.

Ingalls is a member of the Hartwick planning board and said he will have to "sit back" during the board's deliberations over the project.

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Einhorn's letter explains that they want to enter the latest plans as a new proposal rather than an amendment to the old application, which "was essentially an entirely different project."

If it is treated as an amendment there is some question if the old scoping document and determination of significant impact on the environment would remain have to remain in place which Einhorn believes has no relation to the new plan.

This fall Chicago White Sox vice chairman revealed plans to alter the concept of of his project from a camp similar to the Dreams Park next door, to a complex of fields where teams could come to play tournament baseballs. He intends to keep his camp operation in Oneonta where he operated successfully this summer.

By removing the housing and bath facilities for participating teams and coaches, some concerns about the potential impact on the environment would be lessened. "It's a different approach, designed to meet a need and be less burdensome," he said in September. The Cooperstown area doesn't need more baseball camps. "It's going to be a mess," he said. "there's no need to crowd it up more camps."

While Einhorn would like to see his project begin to wind its way through the review process, the town is trying to decide if it will entertain a new application from him.

In November, the town sent Einhorn a letter asking him settle up for almost $30,000 worth of work by the towns engineers and environemntal attorney while consulting on his project.

"The failure to pay the outstanding costs will result in substantial difficulty in review of your project. We must question the financial stability of any project that has outstanding bills to the town," planning board co-chairmen Dick Kelly and Ferd Thering stated in their letter. "Please take care of your obligations by contacting our office and setting up a payment schedule. then and only then, we shall try to find a place on our agenda."

Kelly said last week that the planning board's first obligatoin was to the town and he was uncertain if Einhorn would have to pay his bill before they would accept his new application.

Einhorn wants to put off reimbursement until after site plan approval of his new project.

"If we treat our December 12 application as a new application, CYB, Inc. will guarantee to pay the fees for the old application without contest within 30 days of our site plan approval of the new application, plus any new fees," he states in his recent letter to the planning board.

On Tuesday, the town was still negotiating with Einhorn and town supervisor Carol Niedzialkowski declined to comment about whether he would be required to clear up his account first.

Town clerk Joanne Telfer said he has Einhorn penciled in as the last item on the agenda for Tuesday's meeting, but with the notation that she had not yet seen his check.