A Second Chance
If you couldn't make it to the informational meeting at C-GCC on Tuesday, you have another opportunity to learn about the Hudson River Comprehensive Restoration Plan. This time, you don't even have to leave the warmth and comfort of your own home. On Wednesday, January 21, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., there will be a webinar explaining the project and its goals. Click here to register.
I went to the meeting the other night. This is a great project and the folks at the presentation seemed genuinely interested in public comment and participation.
ReplyDeleteWould be nice if the county's duck hunters and fishermen could make use of city shore, October through April, when (almost) no one else is using it.
ReplyDeleteActually JG, there's money for that too.
DeleteOnce you looked beyond the blather about "restoration," it became clearer that this was a presentation on the structure of all future funding for every sort of river-related human activity imaginable.
That includes every conceivable kind of infrastructure related to flooding, brownfields containment, flooding, resiliency planning and implementation, sediment management, shoreline issues, commercial and recreational fisheries, "water access and navigability," recreation, tourism ... the works.
The underlying theme of the presentation was money, and how the enormous funding streams that begin with Congress and the various federal departments will be structured on this comprehensive plan, and how that knowledge alone will better prepare us to improve river quality in future and quality of life issues.
Personally, I think that the presenters totally garbled their own message. These were bureaucrats trying to do the work of an ad agency. It struck me as amateurish.
Funny, there were no Hudson politicians at the second session. Although Supervisor Sarah Sterling should be credited for attending the earlier meeting, my guess is she'd have attended anyway.
For something that was all about channelling state and federal money to municipalities and non-profits, it was an embarrassment that more than one city official didn't attend. Perhaps they were at home worrying about the fate of our Conservation Advisory Council.
"a presentation on the structure of all future funding for every sort of river-related human activity imaginable."
DeleteRonald Williams; Harold Smith; Pamela Mickel; Michael Dianda; Sandy Skabowski; Jeffrey Kritzman; Ray Coxon; Leo Bernockie; Arthur Martin; Peter Rogers; Steve Brenner; Victor Gorman; David Wright; Thomas Wright; Cedric Brandow; Robert Steimers; Robert Groll; Robert Torchia; Gary Snyder; Dennis Malloy; Richard Hodges; Ronald Hodges; Christy Tiano; Michael Maresco; Pat Cowell, James Konderwich; Joseph Pertilla, George Meicht, Peter Meicht; Charles Davi; A J Rogers; Anthony Rogers.
No pirates, just children, parents, grand parents and great grand parents. Voluntary stewards of the North Dock, maintainers of "free and easy" inner city river access, keeping the tradition of free flow farming of foreshore.
As a 100%, member supported not for profit, the NDTBA kept the wharf at North Dock open, without regards to grant money.
Just like Oakdale, the fishermen's co-operative wharf at North Dock is now closed. Hunters and fisher folk, waiting for "future streams" of funding.
For one 150 years, when duck hunters and fishermen flowed freely, others fallowed. Now, nine hundred-fifty days waiting, while the city waits for "fishy" grant money.
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The first thing I did at the restoration meeting was announce that I wasn't their for anyone's money.
DeleteRemember Reagan's list of scariest words: "I'm the government and I'm here to help."
Ain't that the truth.