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Shelby Schneider leaving Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership | The Daily Gazette
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SARATOGA COUNTY – Shelby Schneider, a veteran of more than two decades in Saratoga County economic development, will be leaving her current role as president and CEO of the Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership, as conflict over who handles economic development continues.
The pending departure was mentioned briefly at Tuesday’s meeting of the county Board of Supervisors and Schneider confirmed it, saying she was leaving for a “great opportunity” that she wouldn’t yet specify, other than to say she will still be working in economic development.
Schneider has been president and CEO of the Prosperity Partnership since February 2020 – a period that coincided almost exactly with the COVID-19 pandemic and caused a devastating blow to the finances of an organization that relies for revenue on the county’s room occupancy tax. Those revenues plummeted last year with the
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