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REQUEST
UNDER THE NEW YORK STATE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION LAW (“FOIL”)
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
VIA
FAX: 1-607-255-4449, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
publicrecords@cornell.edu
Delia Herrin - Associate Director for University Relations
Donica Thomas Varner, Esq. – Vice President and General Counsel
New York State Water Resources Institute (NYSWRI), Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853 USA
VIA
FAX: 1-607-255-4449, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
nyswri@cornell.edu
Delia Herrin - Associate Director for University Relations
Donica Thomas Varner, Esq. – Vice President and General Counsel
New York State Water Resources Institute (NYSWRI), Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853-5701 USA
Re:
FOIL Request - The Village of Piermont, New York – All Comprehensive Plan
Grant Documentation
Without
limitation to the further specificity of my itemized queries hereinbelow, this
FOIL request seeks all Records relating to the Village of Piermont, New York’s
Comprehensive Municipal Plan alias “Comprehensive Plan” or “Comp Plan”
and the New York State Water Resources Institute - including without limitation
all grants sought or obtained in connection therewith and all applications and
entreaties therefor since January 1, 2018.
I
am mindful that, to the extent Cornell is accountable to New York State for
funds, Cornell does respond to FOIL requests:
I. For access to Cornell’s reports to New York State.
II. For Records related to its role as a New York State entity.
III. For Records related to state-funded research.
IV. For Records related to state-funded programs.
V. For Records related to any other state-related activities.
The
background on this FOIL request is as follows. As you may already be aware, the
Village of Piermont and its finances have recently been under New York State
Comptroller “Risk Assessment” scrutiny. Reports indicated that this led NYS
Comptroller personnel to spend at least one month at Piermont Village Hall
poring over Piermont’s books and records.
Additionally,
the Village of Piermont just rammed-through a rushed draft uncorrected
Comprehensive Plan by a unanimous 5-0 Board of Trustees vote last Tuesday
evening, April 29, 2025 at Piermont Village Hall in Piermont, New York. Yet the
Piermont Comprehensive Plan appears to have been kicking around with minimal
activity for years prior to that. The so-called Piermont “Comprehensive Plan
Committee” or “CPC” continued to kick that proverbial can down the road until
the more recent fervor of activity over the past several months.
The
reasons that lame-duck Mayor Bruce Tucker and his Village Hall cronies rammed-through
the Piermont Comprehensive Plan on Tuesday night were: (1) to seek to
bootstrap-in a harmful real estate development at 447-77 Piermont Avenue to be
built over the site of a former Sunoco gasoline station that had underground gasoline
tanks, as well as (2) to avoid the requirement of generating an Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) in favor of a Negative Declaration (“Neg Dec”) instead.
Yet,
a third reason for the bum’s-rush that Piermont residents suffered on Tuesday
night, is the most alarming and likely the most directly relevant to you and
your organization. Videos of April’s Board of Trustees meetings on April
15, 2025 and April 29, 2025 at Piermont Town Hall are linked here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPRpiePQSEA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpJIEuOb5w
At these meetings, Piermont’s publicist-planner Maximilian (“Max”) Stach of the Nelson Pope Voorhis firm spoke to the public and the Village Board of Trustees, on behalf of the Village and Village Board. Mr. Stach admitted that the Village of Piermont was in some form of jeopardy with respect to Comprehensive Plan grant monies. Mr. Stach further indicated, by admission, that Piermont needed to rush its Comprehensive Plan - not simply to obtain future prospective grant money, but in order to not be forced to refund Comprehensive Plan grant money back to the original grantor or grantors.
This
was an astounding admission against interests for Stach and Piermont to make in
an open tribunal.
Why
would an organization confer Comp Plan grant money to a village, but only if
subject to a naked promise of a full or partial after-occurring “rebate” or
“refund’ if the Comp Plan was later unapproved or otherwise failed? A condition
subsequent? Unless Piermont failed to match and then lied to you about it, that
confounds logic and makes no sense. I am therefore concerned that the Village
of Piermont may have already made off with grant money previously paid over to
the Village of Piermont by one or more other entities - perhaps yours - and
perhaps predicated upon a prior written Village misrepresentation that the Piermont
Comp Plan had already been approved, or was somehow already in effect.
Well,
it hadn’t.
Therefore,
this letter is not just a FOIL request. It is also a request for an
investigation of the Village of Piermont by your organization.
The
Village of Piermont appears to have been less-than-transparent with its
residents as to the amount of Comprehensive Plan grant money it has applied for
and obtained over past years. To my knowledge, the Village of Piermont never
posted its Comp Plan grant applications themselves to the Internet or social
media. Therefore, I am back-tracking through the list of organizations that the
Village of Piermont “credited” in the textual acknowledgments of Piermont’s
latest draft Comp Plan, and I am serving this FOIL request (or FOIA request, in
the case of federal agencies) upon all likely or possible grantors. When I
obtain the Records in response, I will publish them for all Piermont residents
to review in the interests of the First Amendment and investigative journalism.
I will also likely forward copies to a few friends in a few other “agencies”.
As
for the business at hand, I am an attorney in New York, and a citizen and
resident of the Town of Orangetown and the County of Rockland. Under the New
York State Freedom of Information Law:
http://www.dos.ny.gov/coog/foil2.html
and, as may be applicable, its state, federal, and other counterparts, including without limitation New York Public Officers Law, Article 6, Sections 84-90, and Title 5 of the United States Code, Section 552 (collectively herein referred to as “FOIL”), request is hereby made that each of you provide to this, my law office, full and complete copies of each and every document and other item of material dated, generated, or otherwise materializing from January 1, 2018 forward to the present day (collectively, “Records”) which may be at all responsive to the following requests:
1.
Grant Solicitations. All Records constituting, reflecting, or
otherwise referencing requests, solicitations, applications, amendments, bids,
or other inquiries seeking grants, awards, loans, commendations, funds, matching
funds, or other things of value in connection with the Village of Piermont,
New York or its Comprehensive Plan.
2.
Grant Monies. All Records constituting, reflecting or otherwise
referencing payments, grants, awards, loans, funds, matching funds, commendations,
recognitions, other things of value, or rebates, refunds, economic penalties,
or fines, in connection with the Village of Piermont, New York or its
Comprehensive Plan.
3.
Grant Conditions. All Records constituting, reflecting, or
otherwise referencing “ground rules” or other pre-conditions for payments,
grants, awards, loans, funds, matching funds, commendations, recognitions,
or other things of value in connection with the Village of Piermont, New York
or its Comprehensive Plan.
4.
Audits. All Records constituting, reflecting, or otherwise
referencing any audits or other follow-up on payments, grants, awards, loans,
funds, matching funds, commendations, recognitions, or other things of
value in connection with the Village of Piermont, New York or its Comprehensive
Plan.
5.
Piermont Entities. All Records reflecting or otherwise
referencing any Piermont, New York non-profits, commissions, societies,
alliances, associations, boards, or other associated entities including the
following, and including without limitation all e-mails and other
communications to or from these entities, in
connection with the Village of Piermont, New York or its Comprehensive Plan:
-Piermont Comprehensive Plan Committee (alias
the “CPC”).
-Piermont Civic Association.
-Piermont Historical Society.
-Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance.
-Village of Piermont Planning Board.
-Village Of Piermont Zoning Board Of Appeal (ZBA).
-Village of Piermont Waterfront Resiliency Commission.
-Nelson Pope Voorhis and “Planner” Maximilian (“Max”) Stach.
6.
Piermont People. All Records reflecting or otherwise referencing any
of the following individuals in connection with the Village of Piermont, New
York or its Comprehensive Plan:
-Mayor Bruce Edward Tucker alias “Bruce
Tucker”.
-Sylvia Welch – “Grant Writer”, “Commissioner For Funding And Development”, and Member, “Comprehensive Plan Committee”.
-Maximilian (“Max”) Stach of the Nelson Pope Voorhis firm.
-Barbara Scheulen - Member, “Comprehensive Plan Committee”, and President, Piermont Historical Society.
-Rod Johnson - Member, “Comprehensive Plan Committee”.
-Klaus Jacob - Member, “Comprehensive Plan Committee”.
-Paul Kadin - Member, “Comprehensive Plan Committee”.
-Chris Sanders - Member, “Comprehensive Plan Committee”.
-Lino Sciarretta, Esq. - Member, “Comprehensive Plan Committee”.
-Mark William Blomquist - Deputy Mayor and Piermont NY Village Trustee.
-“Richard Owen Burns” alias “Rob Burns” alias “Dick Burns” - Ex-Piermont NY Village Trustee
-Christine McAndrews - Piermont NY Village Trustee.
-Rondi Marie Casey alias “Rondi Casey” - Ex-Piermont NY Village Trustee.
-Nathan (Nate) Mitchell - Piermont NY Village Trustee and current Mayoral Candidate.
-Michael Emerson Wright alias “Michael Wright” - Piermont NY Village Trustee.
-Jennifer DeYorgi Maher - Piermont NY “Chief Fiscal Officer”, “Treasurer”, “Village Clerk”, and “Registrar of Vital Statistics”
-Michele Marzo, Piermont NY Deputy Clerk, Treasurer.
-Sylvia Carbonell, Piermont NY Village Clerk.
-Maggie Cavanaugh - Clerk, Piermont NY Building Department.
-Charles (Charlie) Schaub, Piermont NY Building Inspector and “Flood Plain Manager”.
-Joe Knizeski, Assistant Piermont NY Building Inspector.
-Christian (Chris) Catania, alias “Christian Charles”, Piermont NY “Clerk to the Boards”, “Administrative Assistant Building Clerk”, and “Secretary of the Planning and Zoning Boards”.
-David Levy, Piermont NY Planning Board “Chairman”.
-Daniel Spitzer, Ex-Piermont NY Planning Board Chair
-Ed Nelson – Ex-Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-Jerry Warshaw – Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-Kim Stiefel - Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-Don Guyton – Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-Mary Kirby – Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-Jacey Raimondo – Alternate Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-David Kristiansen - Alternate Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-Adra Bubesi Mounier – Ex-Alternate Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-Usha Wright – “Chairman”, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Walter Cain – Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Kevin Timoney - Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Peter T. Metzler – Ex-Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Dr. Philip Tierno – Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Gregg Manzione – Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Rochelle Spooner - Alternate Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Molly MacQueen - Alternate Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Joanne Ottaviano - President, “Piermont Civic Association”.
-Margaret Grace - President Emeritus, “Piermont Civic Association”.
-Mary Lukens - Vice-President, “Piermont Civic Association”.
-Greg Barrett - Treasurer, “Piermont Civic Association”.
-Dan Sherman - Vice President, “Piermont Historical Society”.
-Steve Kulovits - Secretary, “Piermont Historical Society”.
-Betsy Franco Feeney - Board Member, “Piermont Historical Society”.
-Lola Esnard - Board Member, “Piermont Historical Society”.
7.
Other Grantor Agencies. All Records reflecting or otherwise
referencing any other governmental entity grantors including those
below-listed, in connection with the Village of Piermont, New York or its
Comprehensive Plan – and including without limitation all e-mails and other
communications to or from these agencies.
-New York State Department of State (NYSDOS).
-New York State Department of State (NYSDOS) “Smart Growth Community Planning Program”.
-New York State Department of State (NYSDOS) “NYS Smart Growth Program”.
-New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC).
-New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), Climate Smart Communities (CSC) Grant Program.
-New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), DEC SDVOB Compliance Unit.
-New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), SDVOB Program.
-New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), MWBE Program.
-New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), Hudson River Estuary/Hudson River Programs.
-Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
-FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP).
-FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Grant Program.
-U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
-New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services.
-New York State Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), MBS, Bureau of Contracts and Grant Development.
-New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
-Empire State Development Corporation .
-New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets.
-Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rockland County.
-Climate Resilience Partnership.
-New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR).
-All New York State Regional Economic Development Councils (REDCs).
-The Town of Orangetown, New York.
-Rockland County, New York.
-The Rockland County Department of Planning.
8.
Title 11. All Records reflecting or otherwise referencing Title
11 of the “Environmental Protection Fund” in
connection with the Village of Piermont, New York or its Comprehensive Plan.
9.
Downtown Revitalization Initiative. All Records reflecting or
otherwise referencing the “Downtown Revitalization Initiative” in connection
with the Village of Piermont, New York or its Comprehensive Plan.
10.
NY Forward Program. All Records reflecting or otherwise
referencing the “NY Forward Program” in
connection with the Village of Piermont, New York or its Comprehensive Plan.
11.
Brownfield Opportunity Area. All Records reflecting or otherwise
referencing the “Brownfield Opportunity Area” in connection with the Village of
Piermont, New York or its Comprehensive Plan.
12.
Local Waterfront Revitalization Program. All Records reflecting
or otherwise referencing the “Local Waterfront Revitalization Program” in
connection with the Village of Piermont, New York or its Comprehensive Plan.
13.
Federal Funding CFDA #97.047. All Records reflecting or otherwise
referencing “Federal Funding CFDA #97.047” in connection with the Village of
Piermont, New York or its Comprehensive Plan.
14.
Buzzwords. All Records reflecting, or otherwise referencing the
following in connection with the Village of Piermont, New York or its
Comprehensive Plan:
adaptation
adoption
budgeting
citizen input
climate change
community development
community facilities
economic development
elevation
environmental development
flood plain
flooding
goals
implementation recommendations
infrastructure
land use
mitigation
outreach
parking
planning
revitalization
SEQR
SEQRA
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (“SWOT”) reports and analyses
sustainability
transportation
workshops
zoning
15.
E-Mails And Correspondence. Specifically, I am seeking all
Records of any e-mails, memos, notes, correspondence, documents, or other
writings to, from, referencing, or otherwise relating to the Village of
Piermont, New York or its Comprehensive Plan.
16.
All Other Records. Specifically, I am seeking all other Records
of any other kind or nature relating to the Village of Piermont, New York or
its Comprehensive Plan.
17.
Definition Of “Records”. “Records” should be construed in the
broadest sense and manner possible and should include “any information kept,
held, filed, produced or reproduced by, with or for (your agency or office)...
in any physical form whatsoever...” (FOIL,§86[4]) including without limitation
all audio recordings, blog posts, correspondence, data maintained
electronically, data, e-mails, executive summaries, extracts, faxes, instant
messages, Internet posts, letters, log-book entries, memos, paper records,
personal messages, social media communications, spreadsheets, summaries,
synopses, telephone records, test-reports, visual recordings, and any other
materials:
http://www.dos.ny.gov/coog/foil2.html#s86
18.
Headings And Subheadings. The headings and subheadings used in
this letter are for convenience of reference purposes only, and should not be
construed to be words of limitation or otherwise of any substantive
significance relative to this FOIL request.
19.
Costs. If there are any copying or other fees for this, please
let me know what they are and how they are calculated, before filling the
request and forwarding the Records to me. As this FOIL should be considered a
matter of public importance, and as its results will be shared with the general
public and published, I am asking that any otherwise-applicable fees be waived
for this document-production. I am also asking that all documents be provided
to me electronically to the full extent possible, so as to obviate the need for
any photocopying expense.
20.
Denials And Appeals. In the event that any portion of my request
is denied, please inform me of each of the specific reasons for any such denial
in writing - and provide me with the name, address, and other contact
information of the person or entity to whom an appeal should be directed.
21.
Additional Requests. This FOIL request is not intended to be
exhaustive, and I may make additional and follow-up requests.
I
will appreciate a response from you and your office as soon as possible. I look
forward to hearing from you. Thank you.
Respectfully,
and with thanks,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
cc:
VIA FAX: 1-518-474-1927, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
coog@dos.ny.gov
NYS Committee on Open Government (COOG)
Department of State
One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Avenue, Suite 650
Albany, New York 12231 USA
John J. Tormey III, PLLC
1636 Third Avenue, PMB 188
New York, New York 10128 USA
(212) 410-4142 (phone)
(212) 410-2380 (fax)
jtormey@optonline.net
https://www.tormey.org
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
publicrecords@cornell.edu
Delia Herrin - Associate Director for University Relations
Donica Thomas Varner, Esq. – Vice President and General Counsel
New York State Water Resources Institute (NYSWRI), Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853 USA
nyswri@cornell.edu
Delia Herrin - Associate Director for University Relations
Donica Thomas Varner, Esq. – Vice President and General Counsel
New York State Water Resources Institute (NYSWRI), Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853-5701 USA
II. For Records related to its role as a New York State entity.
III. For Records related to state-funded research.
IV. For Records related to state-funded programs.
V. For Records related to any other state-related activities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPRpiePQSEA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpJIEuOb5w
At these meetings, Piermont’s publicist-planner Maximilian (“Max”) Stach of the Nelson Pope Voorhis firm spoke to the public and the Village Board of Trustees, on behalf of the Village and Village Board. Mr. Stach admitted that the Village of Piermont was in some form of jeopardy with respect to Comprehensive Plan grant monies. Mr. Stach further indicated, by admission, that Piermont needed to rush its Comprehensive Plan - not simply to obtain future prospective grant money, but in order to not be forced to refund Comprehensive Plan grant money back to the original grantor or grantors.
http://www.dos.ny.gov/coog/foil2.html
and, as may be applicable, its state, federal, and other counterparts, including without limitation New York Public Officers Law, Article 6, Sections 84-90, and Title 5 of the United States Code, Section 552 (collectively herein referred to as “FOIL”), request is hereby made that each of you provide to this, my law office, full and complete copies of each and every document and other item of material dated, generated, or otherwise materializing from January 1, 2018 forward to the present day (collectively, “Records”) which may be at all responsive to the following requests:
-Piermont Civic Association.
-Piermont Historical Society.
-Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance.
-Village of Piermont Planning Board.
-Village Of Piermont Zoning Board Of Appeal (ZBA).
-Village of Piermont Waterfront Resiliency Commission.
-Nelson Pope Voorhis and “Planner” Maximilian (“Max”) Stach.
-Sylvia Welch – “Grant Writer”, “Commissioner For Funding And Development”, and Member, “Comprehensive Plan Committee”.
-Maximilian (“Max”) Stach of the Nelson Pope Voorhis firm.
-Barbara Scheulen - Member, “Comprehensive Plan Committee”, and President, Piermont Historical Society.
-Rod Johnson - Member, “Comprehensive Plan Committee”.
-Klaus Jacob - Member, “Comprehensive Plan Committee”.
-Paul Kadin - Member, “Comprehensive Plan Committee”.
-Chris Sanders - Member, “Comprehensive Plan Committee”.
-Lino Sciarretta, Esq. - Member, “Comprehensive Plan Committee”.
-Mark William Blomquist - Deputy Mayor and Piermont NY Village Trustee.
-“Richard Owen Burns” alias “Rob Burns” alias “Dick Burns” - Ex-Piermont NY Village Trustee
-Christine McAndrews - Piermont NY Village Trustee.
-Rondi Marie Casey alias “Rondi Casey” - Ex-Piermont NY Village Trustee.
-Nathan (Nate) Mitchell - Piermont NY Village Trustee and current Mayoral Candidate.
-Michael Emerson Wright alias “Michael Wright” - Piermont NY Village Trustee.
-Jennifer DeYorgi Maher - Piermont NY “Chief Fiscal Officer”, “Treasurer”, “Village Clerk”, and “Registrar of Vital Statistics”
-Michele Marzo, Piermont NY Deputy Clerk, Treasurer.
-Sylvia Carbonell, Piermont NY Village Clerk.
-Maggie Cavanaugh - Clerk, Piermont NY Building Department.
-Charles (Charlie) Schaub, Piermont NY Building Inspector and “Flood Plain Manager”.
-Joe Knizeski, Assistant Piermont NY Building Inspector.
-Christian (Chris) Catania, alias “Christian Charles”, Piermont NY “Clerk to the Boards”, “Administrative Assistant Building Clerk”, and “Secretary of the Planning and Zoning Boards”.
-David Levy, Piermont NY Planning Board “Chairman”.
-Daniel Spitzer, Ex-Piermont NY Planning Board Chair
-Ed Nelson – Ex-Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-Jerry Warshaw – Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-Kim Stiefel - Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-Don Guyton – Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-Mary Kirby – Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-Jacey Raimondo – Alternate Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-David Kristiansen - Alternate Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-Adra Bubesi Mounier – Ex-Alternate Member, Piermont NY Planning Board.
-Usha Wright – “Chairman”, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Walter Cain – Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Kevin Timoney - Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Peter T. Metzler – Ex-Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Dr. Philip Tierno – Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Gregg Manzione – Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Rochelle Spooner - Alternate Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Molly MacQueen - Alternate Member, Piermont NY Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA).
-Joanne Ottaviano - President, “Piermont Civic Association”.
-Margaret Grace - President Emeritus, “Piermont Civic Association”.
-Mary Lukens - Vice-President, “Piermont Civic Association”.
-Greg Barrett - Treasurer, “Piermont Civic Association”.
-Dan Sherman - Vice President, “Piermont Historical Society”.
-Steve Kulovits - Secretary, “Piermont Historical Society”.
-Betsy Franco Feeney - Board Member, “Piermont Historical Society”.
-Lola Esnard - Board Member, “Piermont Historical Society”.
-New York State Department of State (NYSDOS) “Smart Growth Community Planning Program”.
-New York State Department of State (NYSDOS) “NYS Smart Growth Program”.
-New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC).
-New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), Climate Smart Communities (CSC) Grant Program.
-New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), DEC SDVOB Compliance Unit.
-New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), SDVOB Program.
-New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), MWBE Program.
-New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), Hudson River Estuary/Hudson River Programs.
-Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
-FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP).
-FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Grant Program.
-U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
-New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services.
-New York State Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), MBS, Bureau of Contracts and Grant Development.
-New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
-Empire State Development Corporation .
-New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets.
-Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rockland County.
-Climate Resilience Partnership.
-New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR).
-All New York State Regional Economic Development Councils (REDCs).
-The Town of Orangetown, New York.
-Rockland County, New York.
-The Rockland County Department of Planning.
adoption
budgeting
citizen input
climate change
community development
community facilities
economic development
elevation
environmental development
flood plain
flooding
goals
implementation recommendations
infrastructure
land use
mitigation
outreach
parking
planning
revitalization
SEQR
SEQRA
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (“SWOT”) reports and analyses
sustainability
transportation
workshops
zoning
http://www.dos.ny.gov/coog/foil2.html#s86
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
VIA FAX: 1-518-474-1927, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
coog@dos.ny.gov
NYS Committee on Open Government (COOG)
Department of State
One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Avenue, Suite 650
Albany, New York 12231 USA
