Penn Yan's Mayor caught telling the local paper half truths has now announced that the village will share details about the three-way agreement that will be made between the village, county and developer Chris Iverson, this will be done at the PY village board meeting February 18. Here's the whole story, the county has found a loophole in the law that doesn't allow the county to provide financial assistance to Iverson by giving the village occupancy and pilot taxes then making the village spent those taxes to help Iverson in his hotel project not the boat company. That financial assistance plus $200,000 from the county to help in the cleanup of the boat company and another 490,000 grant plus $490,000 from the village taxpayers to build a new outlet trail from the boat company to Iverson's hotel plus a 1,200,000 loan provided by the village taxpayers will go to run a new sewer line along the outlet to the hotel after the village acquires the boat company from the county. The village will hold a note on the property in which Iverson will pay the village $75,000 a year for 4 years and then pay the village $24,000 for each townhouse he will builds. He told the mayor he will build one townhouse at a time and if it sells he will built another one until the total sum he pays the village will be $1,100,000, but the money will be spent on the site for infrastructure, This landmark deal will raise the village taxpayer's water, sewer and electric rates, the mayor has sold us out if he is allowed to enter into this gigantic handout agreement so show up at the meeting and tell him no.

I don't think the outlet trail can connect to downtown while Carey's Lumber remains. I also don't see Carey's allowing the village to dig a trench in front of their office to run a sewer line. I'm sure the new line will be run along the road south of Knapp and Schlappi.

Here's the scoop the sewer line will start at Roto Salt where a pump house will be located then the line will run to Iverson's hotel, the million dollar extension of the outlet trail will begin at the boat company and go to red jacket park. This will allow trail walkers to walk from Red Jacket park to Roto Salt where they can turn around and walk back after they smell the new fecal waste pump house or they can jump in the outlet and float downstream. Here's another tidbit the county will pay close to $1,500,000 to cleanup the boat company then they will give Iverson the brownfield tax credits, how sweet it is.

Exactly, thank you MG. The grant money was going to go elsewhere if it didn't go to Penn Yan. If you have issues with that money, take it up with the Fed not with the local government and a developer who took advantage of the program. It also provides a nice housing option to the Village ... so I'm not sure why it's such an awful thing that the VIllage benefited from the federal money.

Also, regarding the boat site development, that grant is also at the State level. It would have gone elsewhere if it didn't come to PennYan. I see this all as positive support for projects that wouldn't otherwise happen. The only "tax money" going to the boat site is for infrastructure ... and unless you want that site to sit dormant with a rotting boat factory on it for the rest of time, someone has to provide the infrastructure to the site to make it go. I just don't understand what all of the hubbub is about.

you can show up at the meeting ok, but you may be to late to stop it if the article in the chronicle express is correct.

`Anyone who wants to learn more about development plans for the former Penn Yan Marine property should plan to attend the Feb. 18 village board meeting. At last week's board meeting, Mayor Robert Church said he is planning to hold an informational meeting about the project and the three-way agreements that will be made between the village, Yates County and developer Chris Iversen.
The Yates County Legislature will meet at 1 p.m. that day, so it's possible the agreement will be approved at that meeting and then again at the village board meeting.`

sounds like it could be approved before the evening meeting, if you can believe the article


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you can show up at the meeting ok, but you may be to late to stop it if the article in the chronicle express is correct.

`Anyone who wants to learn more about development plans for the former Penn Yan Marine property should plan to attend the Feb. 18 village board meeting. At last week's board meeting, Mayor Robert Church said he is planning to hold an informational meeting about the project and the three-way agreements that will be made between the village, Yates County and developer Chris Iversen.
The Yates County Legislature will meet at 1 p.m. that day, so it's possible the agreement will be approved at that meeting and then again at the village board meeting.`

sounds like it could be approved before the evening meeting, if you can believe the article


Read more: http://www.chronicle-express.com/article/20140128/NEWS/140129643#ixzz2rtxePDfM