Recently A resident of Cape Vincent approached me with concerns over the Cape Vincent Town Board passing a resolution authorizing a quarterly payment of 7,500 to the LDC to help them reach their development goals for our community.
This resident was concerned about the LDC assisting the Wood farm and the Mason farm to obtain grants. They took issue with Mason & Woods involvement with industrial wind development and they thought that the financial support of the LDC by the Town Board was counter to the direction that the board should be taking.
Our new town board represents all residents of our community even those that may not have voted for them. The grant for the Wood farm would assist them in building a large addition on one of their barns and the grant that Mason farm is applying for will update their milking process.
The Cape Vincent Local Development Corporation (CVLDC) is a not-for-profit public benefit organization in place to facilitate economic development in the Town and Village of Cape Vincent. Their Objectives are to protect and grow the tax base, provide opportunities to new investors for business development, preserve Cape Vincent’s historical value and provide for new job opportunities.
Helping the Wood farm and the Mason farm grow and remain profitable is a good thing for our community and for our country. The following is from the Richmond County Journal. What farmers provide to our nation is invaluable. They put food on our tables, clothes on our backs, provide excellent goods and raw materials for export, represent a significant part of the economy in every state in the Union. No nation can truly be free and secure unless it can provide for its own food, clothing, fuel and economic stability. Therefore, it is no exaggeration that farmers are vital to America’s maintaining its role as a world power.
Yet, all too often, family farmers are taken for granted. As we enjoy the many benefits of a productive agricultural sector, we should never forget the hard work, and the risk, and the investment, and the skill required to bring these products to market
The LDC is there to serve anyone that would like to keep or bring a business to CV. In addition, these two farms are a valuable asset to our community.
5 comments:
I for one am would like to thank all the LDC members for there great work in Cape Vincent. Onward and upward should be there motto.
K. I agree completely with your article.
I am glad the new board is here for everyone and are willing to help all citizens regardless of what they stand for or who they voted for in the last election.
But I must ask a few question. Could you see this happening under a Reinbeck town government?
Could you see Orvis, Edsall or the Mason twins voting to help Hirschey, or for that matter any person who was against win?
I think we all know that answer is no way in hell, they are to vindictive.
That brings me to my last point. This is the very reason we voted in a town board. A board with vision for the whole community, a board willing to represent all of the citizens.
Thank God Cape Vincent finally woke up!
Never again will we let a bunch of self-serving idiots hold elected or appointed office in Cape.
I want my money! I want my money, dammit!
provide opportunities to new investors for business development, preserve Cape Vincent’s historical value and provide for new job opportunities.
How does the Mason and Wood farms do any of the above? It is a benefit to a family farm, period.
If they need a grant they should be paying for a grantwriter, not using taxpayer money to do it.
I am all for the LDC, but can't agree on this one.
6:50
BINGO!!!!!!!
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