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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
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.
HQ move is latest win for Saratoga County in long-running GlobalFoundries saga | The Daily Gazette
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The GlobalFoundries Fab 8 site in Malta is shown at groundbreaking in a July 2009 Gazette file photo and July 2019 in an aerial image provided by the computer chip maker.
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MALTA The announcement last week that computer chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries would move its headquarters to New York was a milestone in a journey that began nearly a quarter-century ago.
New jobs won’t immediately be transferred to the Fab 8 semiconductor factory in Malta because many of the headquarters functions and personnel already had been moved there from Silicon Valley.
For Saratoga County Partnership it s bed tax or bust
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Saratoga Partnership President and CEO Shelby Schneider speaks at an event at Wiswall Park on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Ballston Spa, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times Union
MALTA – Since its establishment in 2015, Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership had enjoyed generous funding from the county coffers, about $4.2 million over six years.
But no more. The new county leadership will adhere to the what the county is legally obliged to provide to SCPP, half of the county’s bed or hotel tax revenue, and nothing more. And as the pandemic continues to ravage county tourism, that decision could cripple SCPP s 2021 operations, since that amount is so uncertain.