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GLOVERSVILLE The Fulton County Center for Regional Growth Board of Directors on Friday bid farewell to a long-time board member who they say helped right the economic development agency’s finances following its reorganization.
The CRG conducted its annual meeting followed by the Board of Directors’ annual organizational meeting on Friday that saw board members Timothy Beckett of Townsend Leather and Terri Easterly of Coldwell Banker each appointed to their second three-year terms.
Attorney Bryan Taylor of the Fulton County Department of Social Services was additionally appointed to his first three-year term on the board effective Jan. 1, filling the seat of departing Treasurer Ronald Olinsky of the Greco Olinsky Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors.
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GLOVERSVILLE Organizers of a code blue shelter at the former YWCA on Bleecker Street plan to hand out blankets and socks on Saturday as a way to aid the homeless and community members in need while the emergency winter shelter remains unable to open so far this season.
Mike Shrader, who serves as the chair of the Center of Hope advisory board that is organizing the emergency shelter with the Gloversville Free Methodist Church, said Wednesday that shelter organizers came up with the idea to offer blankets and socks as a way to help community members in need get through the cold winter months after the Zoning Board of Appeals rejected their application to overturn Building Inspector David Fox’s determination that the shelter is not allowed under city zoning code.
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Brenda Liett, a congregation and board member of the Gloversville Free Methodist Church and lifelong city resident, speaks in support of the code blue shelter proposed by the church at its 33 Bleecker St. mission building before the Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday. (The Leader-Herald/Ashley Onyon)
GLOVERSVILLE After hearing from an extensive list of supporters and opponents of a proposed code blue shelter in the former YWCA building on Bleecker Street and following a lengthy deliberation on city code provisions, the Zoning Board of Appeals upheld the determination by the building inspector that the shelter is not allowed under city zoning code. The ZBA went on in their decision to provide shelter organizers the opportunity to amend their application in search of a variance to potentially advance the project.