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Next week, Connie Reilley will step down from her post as executive director of the聽Auburn Downtown聽Business Improvement District, an organization she has been involved with for the last eight years.

Mayor Michael Quill and his fellow councilors honored Reilley during their meeting Thursday by presenting her with a key to downtown Auburn.

"Connie's heart and soul were in downtown Auburn," said Councilor Debby McCormick. "She was downtown Auburn's champion before it was cool to be in downtown Auburn."

Reilley will be replaced by Stephanie DeVito, who has worked in the city for the past 14 years. DeVito was also welcomed to her new position during Thursday's meeting, which saw a few dozen people in attendance including representatives of the Downtown BID board and Historic and Cultural Sites Commission.

Reilley was given a standing ovation as she accepted the key.

Precluding the presentation, an emotional Reilley cited difficultly in saying goodbye. She is retiring after suffering a series of strokes last winter.

"I can't tell you how honored I am to have been with BID for eight years. This is hard," she said. "I have worked with amazing people. We have partnered with the city on so many levels and it's always been very productive and very successful."

In other news

鈥� A proposal to construct a new telecommunications tower on city property has area neighbors concerned.

Rochester company Crown Castle, the project developer, has worked with members of the Auburn Industrial Development Authority since last year on property lease negotiations to build a 150-foot-tall Verizon cell tower on Allen聽Street, according to Andrew Fish, director of the Cayuga Economic Development Agency.

Fish and James Dacey, AIDA聽chairman, attended Thursday's meeting at council's request from last week. That was when about a handful of neighbors to the proposed project site, adjacent to Mack Studios, spoke against the tower construction.

The proposal's site plan is currently under review by the city's Planning Board, which hosted a related public hearing about two weeks ago. Corporation Counsel John Rossi said there will likely be another public information period before any sort of decision is made.

"This is not going to happen tomorrow, it's not going to happen next week or even next month," he said.

Fish detailed the lease agreement, which was executed聽in July.

He said the contract calls for a 50-year lease, with a buyout option, at $900 per month and a 10-percent revenue share for other tenants are added to the tower. The tower could聽also include聽free use of a position聽for a public safety transmitter.

The tower will be a topic of an upcoming AIDA board meeting at 5 p.m.聽on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at the Cayuga County Chamber of Commerce, 2 State St., Auburn.