For Immediate Release: March 7, 2000
Contact:
Daniel Fitts | Executive Director | Adirondack Park Agency
contact@apa.ny.gov | (518) 891-4050
RAY BROOK -- The Adirondack Park Agency's monthly meeting will take place Thursday, March 9th, at the Agency’s headquarters in Ray Brook, and Friday, March 10th, at its visitor interpretive center in Paul Smiths. Highlights include an update of employment and payrolls in the Adirondack Park, by Alan Beideck, a regional economist with the State Department of Labor, and a special panel discussion on interpretation and community development in the Adirondack Park, featuring panelists representing the Agency, the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks proposed for Tupper Lake, the Town of Johnsburg and Upper Hudson River Railroad, the Town of Inlet and the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Adirondack Communities and Conservation Program.
The meeting will commence at Thursday at 9 a.m. at its headquarters in Ray Brook, at which time the Legal Affairs Committee will resume its work on regulatory revision. The Economic Affairs Committee will then meet at 1 p.m. to receive an update on employment and payrolls in the Adirondack Park from Alan Beideck, Regional Economist with the State Department of Labor. The Regulatory Programs Committee will follow at 2:30 with consideration of two projects involving a commercial use in Warrensburg, Warren County, and a five-lot subdivision in North Elba, Essex County.
The Agency will reconvene at 9 a.m. Friday at the Visitor Interpretive Center at Paul Smiths, beginning with a continuation of last month’s discussion of the Interpretive Program’s regeneration program, followed by a tour of the facilities. The Agency will then reconvene for a panel discussion on interpretation and community development in the Adirondack Park. The Agency’s chairman, Richard Lefebvre, will moderate the panel discussion, which will include Jackie Day, Director of the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake; Betsy Lowe, Executive Director of the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks; J. R. Risley, Supervisor of the Town of Inlet, Hamilton County; Heidi Kretser, Program Officer of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Adirondack Communities and Conservation Program; William Thomas, Supervisor of the Town of Johnsburg, Warren County; Tim Record, General Manager of the Upper Hudson River Railroad; Sandra Bureau, Director of the Agency’s Division of Interpretive Programs; and a representative of the Railroad Museum in North Creek. The Agency will then receive and act on the reports from the various committees.