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Take the MV500 Survey!

community input, community outreach, economic development, MV500, Otsego County, state funding, survey, Upstate Revitalization Initiative December 27, 2015 Uncategorized webtech

We are hoping you can help! As you probably know, our six-county region is competing for $500 million to be spent across 5 years to bring prosperity to our region. There’s a group of people from across the six counties doing research and collecting information in order to create the best possible (and, we hope, winning) proposal for these Upstate Revitalization Fund dollars. You’ve no doubt read in the newspapers about the MV500 group a few times now. There’s a survey that people from across the six counties are completing, found by clicking this link. This is our chance to … Read More

COUNTY IN ‘HUNGER GAMES’ FOR $1.5 BILLION IN FUNDING

"Hunger Games", economic development, Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Council, state funding December 19, 2015 Uncategorized webtech

COOPERSTOWN – For the past month, four delegates from Otsego County have been part of a six-county task force seeking to win $1/2 billion in state funding, and to do so must out-compete at least four other regions of Upstate New York. The four representatives are county Rep.Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta, who as owner of First Choice Cleaners is also representing small business; Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz, representing municipalities; Sandy Mathes, representing economic development efforts, and Dan Robinson, president/CEO of New York Central Mutual, representing the county’s larger enterprises. The task force is participating in Governor Cuomo’s version of “The Hunger … Read More