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Malta/Stillwater GloFo & Brown’s Beach News

By Harold Wessell

STILLWATER AND MALTA, Aug. 1– The Malta Town Board at its late July agenda meeting included a special meeting in which it deemed complete the most recent update of environmental impact studies on GlobalFoundries' emerging Planned Development District.

On August 1, the Stillwater Town Board, Planning Board leadership and engineer likewise reviewed the four requested amendments to the project, and can schedule action on them after Malta, as lead agency in this PDD process, holds a public hearing and special meeting and rules on the requests, scheduled for August 19 starting at 6:30PM.  (Stillwater's regular business meeting will have been on Aug. 15, so that it would presumably set a special meeting.)

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Stillwater Prepares for Brown’s Beach Purchase – Reported by Harold Wessell

TOWN OF STILLWATER, July 20 – The Stillwater Town Board on Thursday voted several procedural resolutions wrapping up approval of the new Consolidated Water District #6; and firmed up major preparations for potential purchase of Brown's Beach.

The beach site was the de facto main focus of a Public Hearing prior to the Board business meeting, to consider submission of a funding application to the New York State Department of Housing and Community Renewal on or about August 12, 2013, for $750,000 (with no local match required) under the 2013 Competitive Round Community Development Block Grant Program. The application for the grant was authorized during the business meeting.

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Brown’s Beach a Joint Effort? – By Harold Wessell

TOWN OF STILLWATER, July 15 – Stillwater Town Supervisor Edward Kinowski told The Express that he's been extra busy since last Thursday in stepped-up conversations with the Town of Malta and GlobalFoundries toward a  potential intermunicipal redevelopment plan for Brown's Beach, using funds offered by Global.

Whether an agreement is forged or not, however, Stillwater is able to make the purchase on its own, according to its Supervisor.

The company has proferred a donation toward  Stillwater's desired purchase of the long-popular, but long idled beach facility at the south end of Saratoga Lake,  IF it can be part of an agreement providing both Towns with sufficient  "public benefit" from an approval of the Fab 8.2 project –  and be the final such concession expected of the company.

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Brown’s Beach: Bright Future – By Harold Wessell

TOWN OF STILLWATER, June 20 – Stillwater Supervisor Edward Kinowski took some time at the start of the first Town Board Business meeting in a new Town Hall to address some news generated that day on a radio station and newspaper.

Indeed, he began, it was why he requested an on-air interview with YNN, and seen around the time the board meeting was starting, concerning the prospective purchase and revival of Brown’s Beach.

"There's a lot of misinformation that is out there." he began. "Here's the straight skinny from me.  And I don't know what else to say," as he outlined that the longtime favorite recreation place for people from Stillwater, Mechanicville, Malta and beyond lies completely within the bounds of the Town of Stillwater; that his Town is the only entity in formal negotiation with the current owner to purchase it – and that, while a money contribution by the chipmaker would be most welcome, the Town has been methodically working out how it could make the purchase on its own.

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Malta Mulling GloFo Interest in Supporting Beach Purchase – By Harold Wessell

TOWN OF STILLWATER, June 20 – Stillwater Supervisor Edward Kinowski took some time at the start of the first Town Board Business meeting in a new Town Hall to address some news generated that day on a radio station and newspaper.

Indeed, he began, it was why he requested an on-air interview with YNN, and seen around the time the board meeting was starting, concerning the prospective purchase and revival of Brown’s Beach.

"There's a lot of misinformation that is out there." he began. "Here's the straight skinny from me.  And I don't know what else to say," as he outlined that the longtime favorite recreation place for people from Stillwater, Mechanicville, Malta and beyond lies completely within the bounds of the Town of Stillwater; that his Town is the only entity in formal negotiation with the current owner to purchase it – and that, while a money contribution by the chipmaker would be most welcome, the Town has been methodically working out how it could make the purchase on its own.

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Town Now On Course For Possible Beach Purchase – By Harold Wessell

 

TOWN OF STILLWATER, June 6 – "There isn't a person that hasn't come up to me and said, ‘When are we going to buy it?' ... ‘When is the deal done?'" Town Supervisor Edward Kinowski told Wednesday's Town Board Agenda Meeting. "There has not been a negative word from one person" about the prospect that the old Brown's Beach site on Saratoga Lake will soon become a facility of the Town of Stillwater in various ways. "We're taking a number of steps toward bringing us closer to a purchase agreement."

The Supervisor, stressing that he is addressing the prospect only to the extent he is entitled to at this stage, told Wednesday's Town Board Agenda meeting that it was unlikely there could be any community use of Brown's Beach this year; but at least its status should be should be established in 120 days or less.  That is the amount of time a prospective purchaser has to complete a closing after a Letter of Intent (LOI) to purchase has been signed – as it now has.

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