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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
DENVER, June 10, 2021 The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) and the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) have announced 16 regional teams, representing 169 rural communities, as participants in the Colorado Rural Resiliency and Recovery Roadmap program.
Saratoga County’s four Adirondack towns seek to attract new residents | The Daily Gazette
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Four rural counties in northwestern Saratoga County hope to lure new residents to their towns by touting the area s natural beauty, such as the Great Sacandaga Lake, pictured on May 27. The lake is shared by towns in Fulton and Saratoga counties.
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SARATOGA COUNTY – Not all of Saratoga County is as bustling as Clifton Park or Saratoga Springs.
Take the four towns in the northwest corner of the county, for example. Spread through the rugged hills and valleys surrounding Great Sacandaga Lake, the communities of Corinth, Hadley, Day and Edinburg never had more than a couple of thousand residents, even when they were self-sufficient Adirondack mill towns. In the 21st century, some of them have lost population.
Amazon still discussing terms over $4.5 million grant award
RANDALL CHASE, Associated Press
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DOVER, Del. (AP) State officials awarded $4.5 million in taxpayer money to online retail giant Amazon Inc. last year to build and staff a distribution facility in Delaware, but the company apparently is still not satisfied.
Members of a panel that approves incentives for economic development projects were told by state officials Monday that the deadline for dispersing the Amazon grant money expired months ago, and that the company is still negotiating terms with the state.
“I’m just curious as to what’s taking so long,” said Tarik Haskins, a member of the Council on Development Finance. “Is Amazon just negotiating hard and they want various terms or things that we don’t typically live with?”