NORWICH – Town of Norwich Supervisor David C. Law unsuccessfully threw his town’s weight behind a move to keep the county’s attorney out of the chain of command regarding credit card processing at the airport.

The Republican and chairman of planning and economic development for Chenango County joined all but two Democrats and New Berlin’s Ross Iannello, who is politically unaffiliated, in voting for what his committee said was a roadblock to fuel sales.

“We felt he (Attorney Richard W. Breslin) would just prolong it and was going to drag his feet instead of expedite this thing along,” Law said.

Verbiage in a resolution adopted by the full board in August calls for the county attorney’s approval of said contract. According to Law’s committee, Breslin’s approval was not intended to be part of deal. The committee called for an amendment to strike the words.

City of Norwich Ward 1, 2 and 3 Supervisor James J. McNeil, a Democrat, said the credit card processing company in consideration, Global Payments Direct, Inc., submitted a standard contract.

“I think it would be two blue moons before a credit processing company and the county attorney can come to an agreement,” he told the Chenango County Board of Supervisors last week. “The fuel is sitting up there. It is convenient to be pumped, but it’s not. Gradually the money we have stockpiled for the airport will be whittled down.”