Saturday, April 7, 2012

Update on County Buildings

John Mason reports in today's Register-Star that 25 Railroad Avenue has passed both Phase I and Phase II of its environmental review and Pat Grattan, chair of the Board of Supervisors, has the go-ahead to negotiate with Anthony Concra to purchase the building: "DSS building passes environmental muster." Apparently, the site is contaminated, but the contamination and harmful vapors have not penetrated the building.

Also in today's Register-Star, John Mason reports on the status of the plan to expand the Columbia County courthouse to provide handicapped access: "Courthouse work could start soon."

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2 comments:

  1. Prison AlleyApril 7, 2012 at 5:51 PM

    DSS Bldg.Passes Muster?
    Says who?
    says Crawford& Assoc.
    Since Concra the owner,
    paid for the environmental study done by the
    'go to Hudson City Hall engineers 'Crawford&Assoc.
    on his own land
    it would be quite remarkable if Concra said
    no I'm sorry ,my guys say
    it's contaminated
    & I can't in good conscience sell it to the tax payers

    DSS......GET AN OUTSIDE OPINION,...IDIOTS

    people work there,the bldg is shot.
    this is taxpayer money you people are playing with
    Go fix up that Ockawamick school,We already own.
    The money you save us, will pay for all the transportation for clients you need
    and plenty left over.
    See if Concra can sell that dump to anybody else.
    Concra's 20 yr PILOT and 485,000per yr lease;
    was up in June & the assessment was just jacked up to over 2mil
    (it was 1mil when Scalera wanted it)
    6,900 before Concra's PILOT ran out
    so Concra needs to unload this dump NOW
    or he will have to pay TAXES.Let him!
    he's been getting 30k a month since June
    Scalera wanted it so bad for the Police&Court
    for years-
    up to a month ago
    First its the Armory for Cops& Court &library
    and homeless at HAVE INC bldg. with GalVan

    then presto!2 days later

    Now he has something he likes better cooked up with Galvan
    A SRO Civic Multiplex Condo
    in the left center of town

    the failed Starboard project recycled

    Scalera is not Mayor
    he should have nothing to do with this at all
    NOTHING
    including as his latest incarnation as BOS 5th,
    as Ethically he can have no influence
    on any project he promoted as Mayor
    Court/Police Station was his deal unsuccessfully for term after term
    and as he is on GalVan Board, he must recuse himself altogether.

    So back off Scalera

    and about 25 RR
    Supervisor William C. Hughes Jr., D-Hudson4, told
    the Register-Star that four years ago,

    “some supervisors were dead set that the building
    would have more contamination than they could deal with.
    I said, ‘Prove me wrong, do a Phase II.’”

    So,you let the owner do it????

    And finally Rick's 2 bits to DSS on 25 RR
    Supervisor Rick Scalera, D-Hudson5, said
    there was a retention pond on the west side of the building
    into which an extended pipe dumped construction debris from the hospital;
    it was topped off with clay.
    “If there’s construction debris on top, it shouldn’t be there.
    That to me would be the best bet for parking additions,” he said.

    Thank you, Rick

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  2. VincentApril 8, 2012 at 1:29 AM

    OMG prison alley

    you figured it all out

    and put it in writing

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