As we brace for a few days of exceedingly hot weather and wonder if the country is now at war with Iran, here's what is happening in our two square miles.
- On Monday, June 23, the Hudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners meets at 6:00 p.m. Every meeting of the HHA Board offers the possibility of learning more about HHA's redevelopment plans. The project is now in its value engineering phase, but perhaps in time, we will learn what the buildings are actually going to look like. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person in the Community Room at Bliss Towers and on Zoom. Click here to join the meeting remotely.
- On Tuesday, June 24, it is the Democratic Primary in Hudson. The polls are open from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Here are the polling sites:
- Wards 1, 2, and 3--St. Mary's Academy, 301 Allen Street
- Ward 4--County Office Building, 4o1 State Street
- Ward 5--Central Fire Station, 77 North Seventh Street
- At 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 24, the Common Council ad hoc Parking Committee holds its monthly meeting. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely.
- On Wednesday, June 25, Columbia County District Attorney Chris Liberati-Conant holds a Town Hall Meeting from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Hudson Area Library, 51 North Fifth Street.
- On Thursday, June 26, Hudson Community Development and Planning Agency (HCDPA) meets at 5:00 p.m. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely.
- On Friday, June 27, the Historic Preservation Commission meets at 10:00 a.m. The meeting includes two public hearings, one regarding an internally illuminated sign proposed for 421 Warren Street, the other on the new structure proposed for 9 Partition Street. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely.
- Also on Friday, June 27, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., the Columbia County Historical Society hosts an opening reception for its exhibition, The Rise and Fall of the Port of Hudson: An Illustrated Timeline & Whaling Stories of Black Mariners, Perils at Sea, Moby Dick." The exhibition is at the CCHS Museum, 5 Albany Avenue in Kinderhook.
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Every time HHA comes up with a better plan, the plan gets worse. Now the plan is to create a gigantic 4 story building made of wood, that's most likely going to burn down, based on the number of fire calls to HHA now. Phase 1 calls for over 150 units, with only 72 parking spots, that will all feed out onto State Street exacerbating an already existing traffic and parking congestion problem. All while turning the whole neighborhood into a construction hell hole for a decade or more.
ReplyDeleteThe HHA has shown itself, after half a century in Hudson, to be a corrupt and mismanaged organization. The fact that the concrete and steel apartment building they erected has to be demolished due to shoddy construction and poor maintenance after only 50 years, attests to that fact.
Here is the solution. HHA should be expelled from Hudson. Everyone in Bliss Towers should be moved into Galvan's new building on 7th Street. The buildings on HHA property should be plowed down and the place converted into a recreational park with an Olympic sized community pool - with no parking, no cars allowed. We could call it, Bliss Recreational Park.