ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT/PLANNING/PUBLICITY COMMITTEE

Monday, January 13, 2025 - 10:00 AM

Ike Tyler, Chairperson

Clayton Barber, Vice-Chairperson

Chairman Tyler called this Economic Development/Planning/Publicity Meeting to order at 10:00 am with the following Supervisors in attendance: Clayton Barber, Matt Brassard, Chris Clark, Robin DeLoria, Derek Doty, Shaun Gillilland, Charlie Harrington, Ken Hughes, Steve McNally, Jim Monty, Cathleen Reusser, Favor Smith, Matt Stanley, Davina Thurston, Ike Tyler, Joe Pete Wilson, Margaret Wood and Mark Wright.

Department Heads present: Mike Mascarenas and Anna Reynolds.

Deputies present: Dina Garvey

Also Present: Jody Olcott, Scott and Emily Brankman - IDA, Elizabeth Lee - Cornell Cooperative Extension, Dan Kelleher and Adam DeSantis - ROOST, Caitlyn Wargo - Adirondack Roots and Nicole Justice-Green - Essex County Land Bank. Aurora McCaffrey - Essex County Historian had been previously excused.

TYLER: Alright, welcome to the first meeting of Economic Development, we’ll start with the IDA and I guess Jody, has the Brankman’s, Mr. and Mrs. Brankman with her, maybe you’re going to say a few words.

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The first item on the agenda was the Industrial Development Committee with Jody Olcott reporting as follows:

OLCOTT: Good morning, I haven’t seen you guys in a long time, I feel like.

This is Emily and Scott Brankman, they are the purchasers of the Westport Hotel, from the County. So, I had summarized the project on your monthly report and what the IDA had proposed to provide them with incentives for the project. So, I brought them here, because obviously, I figured you guys would have questions. Project, obviously, is moving forward since the purchase of the property and they will kind of update you on where they are and I will kind of chime in the incentives, the straight lease back and the PILOT that we proposed. I will let them give you a brief summary of the project.

BRANKMANN, Scott: Good morning, everyone. At this point we are, we hopefully beginning demolition on the property, this week. We plan a full renovation of the property. We’re going to, when we purchased the property, it has 11 rooms, upstairs and a full-service restaurant, downstairs, I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the property, but our plan is to put 3, kind of turn the property into a more modern version of a hotel, like a boutique hotel of sorts with a year around, full-service restaurant. We’re restaurateurs, we’ve been doing restaurant business since high-school, first jobs. Emily’s first waiting tables job was at the Westport Hotel when we were in High School. This is our life, restaurants, hospitality business, this is what we do. We have, during the summertime, we lease the Westport Yacht Club, as well. We’ve been doing that for 7 years and at the same time we have other restaurants in Massachusetts and we have management teams that run those year-around for us. So, with respect to the Hotel, the timeline for opening, if everything goes correctly would be the Fall of ’26 and again, with the construction renovation and everything, hopefully, beginning this week and throughout the summer and the fall.

Our goal is to use as many local construction workers, everyone from Pribble Excavation in Essex to, D&L Renovations in Westport. We want to try to keep as much business local in Essex County, as possible. We’re not going to go out to Plattsburgh or Lake Placid or even Burlington to source any of the contractors and artisans and things like that.

We’ve also been working with SHPPO, because it is a historic building and the building was built in 1876, the same year as the railroad station at the Depot. So, we’ve been working with them for Federal and State tax credits and they are going to help us finance the property and we’ve also been awarded and Empire State Development Grant, that we just found out about, about a month ago. That will help us finance the property, as well.

TYLER: Any questions?

HUGHES: Hi, good morning, congratulations.

BRANKMANN: Thank you

HUGHES: You started off with demolition and you mentioned renovation. I am a little confused, are you demoing the whole the building, are you renovating the building or are demoing part of the building?

BRANKMANN, S: The structure will stay as it. The demotion is all inside.

HUGHES: Okay, all in interior?

BRANKMANN, S: Yeah

HUGHES: But, the actual envelope is staying the same?

BRANKMANN: Yeah, exactly, the integrity of the building on the outside will stay the same, just basically will be given a facelift, outside, fresh paint.

HUGHES: Wonderful, okay, great, thanks for sharing.

MONTY: I just want to say, congratulations, it’s great to see two local people come back to our area, after you’ve had much success outside the area. It’s amazing that you’re willing to invest in a piece of property that really, I questioned whether it was worth investing in, but you guys saw something in it that was worthwhile. I wish you the best of luck and I can’t wait to see what comes to fruition on this, congratulations.

GILLILLAND: Yeah, I just want to say, thank you, because it’s a tremendous spot, and you did mention a year-around restaurant, which is also, for a year-around resident, thank you and also thank you for being a part of what, Mr. Tyler, has a Westport Renaissance going on. There are things that are happening in Westport that are just amazing and thank you for being a part of that.

BRANKMANN: We’re excited to be a part of that.

DOTY: First of all, regardless of the in-house jokes about Lake Placid, we’re all friends here and I would like to welcome you to the hospitality community, we’re all one big family. It’s great to see your projections for employment, hopefully, you need to attract, maybe a couple of families to supply those numbers and I am sure that was a big part of IDA, saying yes to a lot of this, but great luck to you and I’ll come done from Lake Placid to have a meal.

REUSSER: I would just like to say, welcome to our community, very much enjoy the Yacht Club in the summer. I was wondering with your project, if there’s emphasis on trying to be carbon neutral?

BRANKMANN, S: As best as we can. Part of our presentation with the Empire State Development was the fact that to heat the place, we’re going to do electric heat pumps and hopefully do some solar on the roof, as much as we possibly can.

REUSSER: Very good.

BRANKMANN, S: And long, big plan would be to have electric car chargers, as well, on property.

TYLER: Yeah, I would just like to add, you guys know how I feel. Thank you, very much for coming in here and love, like Jim, said, the aspect that you guys have done this your whole lives and you know what you’re getting into, as opposed to some people that have come in and tried to start businesses and have no clue what they’re doing and you guys have a clue and I think it’s going to be a great asset to the Town and thank you.

BRANKMANN, S: Thank you very much for helping us get this done, we really appreciate it.

TYLER: You got it. Anything else? Thank you.

OLCOTT: Okay, so in terms of what we have proposed is, I gave you the summary. It’s about a $1.2 million project, as Scott, indicated, they were the recipients of a recent CFA Designation, which is fantastic, from Empire State Development. We’re working on the back end of the financials, on the gap of the financials, but in terms of what the IDA has proposed is three incentives that I keep hounding you guys about. The mortgage recording tax abatement, which is the 1.25% at the County Clerk’s Office; which equates to about $3,200.00. The sales tax exemption, so we’re sales tax exempt, they business utilizes our sales tax exemption when they purchase and renovate. So, anything from the inside to equipment and beds and all that you can imagine and then the 10-year PILOT. The 10-year PILOT for this project is kind of a no-brainer, if you looked at that spreadsheet that I sent you. When you build it out, I mean, right now, the property is assessed for, maybe, $160,000.00 and we went back to the Town and talked to Ike and the Town Assessor and said, you know, once they finish this project, what is the best case scenario of a final assessed value? Because, that’s kind of how you want to build a PILOT off of and what we’re looking at is, at one-time, in its heyday, Westport Hotel was assessed for $390,000.00. So, if you’re looking at something like that, as a finished product, that’s how you kind of build a PILOT off of and I mean it’s a no-brainer. If you look at the current assessment, and the property just stayed as is and they just didn’t do anything with it, you know it builds that out, as well as providing the incentives. So, for the most part, I mean the investment and as everybody, said, here it’s nice to have somebody who is familiar with the County. You know, they were in Massachusetts, they’ve been here in the County, doing business, understand the dynamics of the seasonality and whatnot and had some experience in that. So, we are absolutely, absolutely endorsing the project and hope you do, as well.

TYLER: So, you’re looking for a resolution?

OLCOTT: I would love a resolution of support for the three incentives that we have offered.

TYLER: Mr. Doty, seconded by Ms. Reusser.

RESOLUTION THE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN THE FORM OF SALES TAX ABATEMENT, MORTGAGE RECORDING TAX ABATEMENT AND REAL PROPERTY TAX ABATEMENT TO BE PROVIDED BY THE ESSEX COUNTY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY IN CONNECTION WITH A PROJECT FOR LUCKY CATS HOSPITALITY GROUP, LLC IN CONNECTION WITH THE WESTPORT HOTEL.

Doty, Reusser

TYLER: Any more discussion?

HUGHES: Just a quick question, Jody, on the future assessment, the $390,000.00, is that a best guess from your chair or is that conversation with the assessor?

OLCOTT: That was a conversation with the assessor and they agree. We looked at, it’s fluctuated over the years, obviously, you know the way the business has been, but we think $390,000.00 is very fair and saying that, it’s a fair number and in its heyday, that’s what the best case scenario is and keep in mind, when we do a 10-year PILOT, you’re locked in, that’s a fixed assessment for 10 years. So, I want to make sure that’s a fair number to gauge. You know, we don’t want to undercut or over inflate it, for sure.

HUGHES: Yeah, thank you.

TYLER: Anything else? All in favor? Opposed? Carries.

OLCOTT: Thank you, all.

TYLER: Thank you

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The next item on the agenda was Community Resources with Anna Reynolds reporting as follows:

REYNOLDS: Good morning, two referrals, today. The first is in Essex, a special use permit for new construction of a home in a historical district, located at 2215 Lake Shore Road. My recommendation is, if a new driveway is required for access, please have the applicant, submit a right-a-way permit to the County Highway Department. I wasn’t sure, based on the drawing, if there had already been a driveway at that vacant lot.

TYLER: Mr. Hughes, second, Mr. Clark.

ACTION OF THE ESSEX COUNTY PLANNING BOARD

ON REFERRALS RECEIVED FROM THE TOWN OF ESSEX

The following motion was made by Supervisor Hughes.

Whereas, the Essex County Planning Board has considered the following GML 239 referrals at its regular meeting on January 13, 2025;

REFERRAL PROPOSED ACTION

Town of Essex - 2215 Lake Shore Road Special Use Permit

Whereas, as the above referred, proposed action directly impacts a county road or county property, if the construction of a new driveway is needed, then it will require a Essex County Department of Works Right-of Way Permit; and

Be It Adopted by the Essex County Planning Board that no further recommendation or comment on said referrals shall be or hereby is made, with the exception of the above and the respective referring bodies may take such final action as they deem appropriate.

This motion was seconded by Supervisor Clark and passed on a vote of 9 in favor, and none opposed.

TYLER: Any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Carried

REYNOLDS: The Town of Westport, a special use permit for the mining activities, located at 40 Delany and Stevenson Road. It’s a renewal permit for the DEC. So, it’s renewing a special use permit at the town level. I recommend a letter of no comment.

TYLER: Moved by Mr. Barber, second, Mr. Clark

ACTION OF THE ESSEX COUNTY PLANNING BOARD

ON REFERRALS RECEIVED FROM THE TOWN OF WESTPORT

The following motion was made by Supervisor Barber.

Whereas, the Essex County Planning Board has considered the following GML 239 referrals at its regular meeting on January 13, 2025;

REFERRAL PROPOSED ACTION

Town of Westport, 40 Delany Rd & Stevenson Rd. Special Use Permit

(County Rte. 44)

And Whereas, none of the referred, proposed actions directly impacts a county road or county property.

Be It Adopted by the Essex County Planning Board that no recommendation or comment on said referrals shall be or hereby is made, and the respective referring bodies may take such final action as they deem appropriate.

This motion was seconded by Supervisor Clark and passed on a vote of 9 in favor, none opposed.

TYLER: Any discussion?

HUGHES: Where on Stevenson Road is this intersection?

REYNOLDS: I think it’s less than a mile off the road, it’s a dead end, intersection.

HUGHES: It’s coming from Town, not coming from the Moriah side?

TYLER: Correct

REYNOLDS: Yes

TYLER: All in favor? Opposed? Carried

Anything else?

REYNOLDS: Nothing else, unless you have questions for me.

TYLER: Any questions? I don’t see any, have a great year.

REYNOLDS: Okay

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The next item on the agenda was the Essex County Historian, Aurora McCaffrey, who was previously excused.

TYLER: Aurora, is excused today.

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The next item on the agenda was Cornell Cooperative Extension, with Elizabeth Lee reporting as follows:

LEE: Good morning, everybody, Happy New Year. I submitted a report and I don’t have any additional comments, other than to say, I’m really excited about the possibility of working with the Brankmans. They have been users of local food so some time and so that will support the farmers and with the potential for employment, I really see a great fit with our 4-H mentoring program and the community partners that are involved with that. So, that looks like a great opportunity.

Any other questions?

TYLER: I don’t see any, have a great day.

LEE: Thank you, have a great day.

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The next item was the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism with Dan Kelleher and Adam DeSantis reporting as follows:

KELLEHER: Good morning, terrific to see everyone, today, Happy New Year. Firstly, I want to say, thank you. We’re excited to have Supervisor Stanley, back on the ROOST Board and to welcome Supervisor Reusser to the ROOST Board. We’re very excited for your contributions and guidance, as we move into 2025.

Anecdotally, we’re hearing winter is off to a good start, the snow is good. Last year, if you remember, January, was all rain and heat. So, we’re hearing that both ski ticket sales and snowmobile activity is up. So, we’re very excited about that.

You all should have received an invite, last week, to the opening reception for the Empire State Winter Games, we’ll also send a follow-up letter to Judith, just to make sure everyone gets it, but hopefully we’ll see some of you there.

And then we have 11 months of occupancy tax collection data, through November and we’re up 6% over the year to date figures for 2023 and if we actually take out the eclipse, we still more than double inflation, so we’re obviously pretty happy with that performance.

Next, I have Adam DeSantis, here, today, so I will be brief and then next month, we’ll have Michelle Clement and MJ, here with our annual report, as well as an update on 250^th initiative.

So, I have a lot more for you, next week and I will turn it over to Adam, but first I am happy to answer any questions that you might have for me.

DESANTIS: Thank you, Dan, thank you, everyone for the opportunity.

I wanted to provide a quick update on a couple of items that I have been working on, recently. The last time that I was here, and presented to all of you, I addressed the potential for ROOST to be undertaking a new lodging opportunity study and we are getting closer to kicking that off. We perused an economic development grant through National Grid and we expect to be receiving an award letter later this month and will be kicking that off, shortly afterwards. The intent of that study, again, is to look at either a full-service or boutique lodging opportunities in the Lake Champlain Region and the Adirondack HUB. We think there’s an opportunity to increase the opportunity for overnight visitation, related to Agri-tourism, heritage tourism and other recreational opportunities that exist within those regions that we serve. We understand that overnight stay has an significant impact on the economic impact and that we see, anecdotally, and through some of the mobile data that we analyze, overnight stays tend to originate in Warren County or in neighboring towns in Vermont and we think there is a real opportunity for these regions, Lake Champlain and Adirondack HUB to capture some of that other night stay and additional sales tax revenue by creating new lodging opportunities. So, we’re excited to get that kicked off here in the first quarter of this year.

The next item I wanted to touch on is, we’re also looking to undertake a market rate housing study that is specific to all towns within Essex County. We understand that there has been a number of studies done, over the past several years that look at the need and demand for housing in the County. This is supposed to be more specific and end in a product that we can identify, through the identification of sites within towns, then market opportunities to developers to create an actual plan to actually build housing throughout the County. We want to look at the demand by the type of housing, by the price point and by the number that can be absorbed in a reasonable timeframe. We’re also perusing a number of grants to help support that study, but we look forward to kicking that off in the early part of this year, as well.

I am currently working with Anna Reynolds at the County to submit an application for a County Housing Infrastructure Grant that was recently announced by the State. So, we’re looking at a couple of potential projects that could be supported through that and that is again, that is specific to infrastructure projects that support housing. The application is due later in April, I believe.

And lastly, we are also working on some Agri-tourism opportunities and working with Cornell Cooperative Extension to host a regional networking opportunity for our regional networking event for Agri-tourism operators throughout the County, sometime in the early part of this year. Talk about best practices, ways to market your business, ways to attract new customers, and again, increasing the success of those businesses.

So, I am happy to answer any questions about any of that.

MONTY: Yeah, thank you. Getting back to the lodging study that you’re talking about. Are you talking, the promotion of short term rentals within the area, because obviously I have a lot of concerns about short term rentals, because they’re taking away from our housing.

DESANTIS: We’re specifically not looking at short term rentals. These would be a full service or either, boutique hotel style accommodation and I want to emphasize that because we think there are opportunities to draw visitation from Warren County and Vermont, we’re not looking at redistributing current visitation across the county, but this is supposed to be an additive product to increase the overall economic impact for the County.

MONTY: That makes sense and my other question is, what are the location of the two projects that you’re working with Anna?

DESANTIS: So, we’re looking at a project in North Elba and also having conversations with Adirondack Roots for their project in Wilmington.

HUGHES: Could you remind me of the funding source for that first point you made? Did you say National Grid?

DESANTIS: National Grid.

HUGHES: The electric company?

DESANTIS: Yes

HUGHES: Okay, so are you going to be hindered by the area that you’re able to do that work, because National Grid is just Westport, south? You said, Champlain Valley, but half of the Champlain Valley is NYSEG. So, I didn’t know if you’re hindered, are you able to work outside of their grid area?

DESANTIS: We are, so their contribution will be scaled in proportion of their electrical service coverage area.

HUGHES: Okay and the second thing, the second topic that you brought up, the housing study. It sounds like you’re going to be very granular, where other studies may or may not have been, you’re taking a specific focus to what each town, to try and regurgitate what I think I heard, and really get an on the ground understanding of where those opportunities exist in each of our 18 towns and develop that as you create a report, is that?

DESANTIS: Correct and not only the where, but the what.

HUGHES: Okay

DESANTIS: Into, you know, specifically the type of housing. Is it multi-family. Is it single family? Is it duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, but really what type does the market, is the market interested in and then being able to create an opportunity that can be marketed to a developer that has an interest in developing these types of projects.

HUGHES: Now, are you doing that work in-house or are you going to RFP out and have an consultant inform you?

DESANTIS: We’ll use a 3^rd party consultant.

HUGHES: Okay, great, thank you

TYLER: Any other questions?

MASCARENAS: Just one, Anna or Adam, do you need a municipal sponsor for that grant that you’re applying for or are you eligible as a non-profit?

DESANTIS: So, it’s actually, that grant is submitted by the County.

MASCARENAS: So, you need a municipal sponsor.

DESANTIS: I believe that’s correct.

HUGHES: They’re a sub-recipient.

MASCARENAS: Right, we haven’t don’t that yet, correct?

REYNOLDS: No, we’re just looking at the application, right now.

MASCARENAS: Okay, so you’ll have time if you bring it next month?

REYNOLDS: Maybe, March.

MASCARENAS: Okay, thank you.

HARRINGTON: Yes, I had a recent discussion with Dan Kelleher, about the information center, located at the historic site and Champlain Bridge. There are plans for improvements there, but I feel that not enough attention is being provided to that area. There is a large amount of acreage there, granted it is a very historical site and it is a point where the bridge funnels in all kinds of tourists. I believe that an expanded, aggressive informational center is needed there and I invite you to please revisit your plans and come up with an expanded idea, ideas, as to how we could further make the Champlain Valley a designation site and that is historical site, coupled with the information center could be the golden key for that. Thank you

TYLER: Thank you

KELLEHER: Yeah, and I am in 100% agreement with you. The challenge is that site is owned by New York State OPRHP in conjunction with DEC and so the project is being driven by PRHP and Sam Huntington, who you know. They’re going through the UMP process, which I think a lot of the Supervisors in this room know, can take quite a lot of time, but there are, it’s a OPRHP project to expand it and they are looking at a pretty significant growth on that. We are happy to support them in every way that we can. Right now, we’re just stuck in the UMP morass, unfortunately too many projects in the Adirondacks that get stuck in, but we’re obviously committed to helping promote that.

TYLER: You’re fortunate that it’s State owned, they’re very good partners (laughter).

Any other questions?

HARRINGTON: Yes, at one time there was a swimming area at the historic center and that was disbanded. It was a very, very popular site for residents in the Port Henry, Ti and Crown Point area. I have never been able to get Parks and Recreation to visit that, again. All kinds of roadblocks were put up in regards to that, including physical roadblocks that would prevent that beach from ever being utilized, again. I believe this is also a point that needs to be revisited by Parks and Recreation and by DEC and certainly the historical avenues that are very much a part of that area.

TYLER: Thank you, anything else? Thank you

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The next item was the Essex County Land Bank with Nicole Justice-Green reporting as follows:

JUSTICE-GREEN: Good morning, everyone. My report is attached and I would love to feel some questions. The one item that I did want to cover is just a reminder about our $2 million award for the vacant rental improvement program. This program is going to be being launched by the end of the month. It is a tri-county program, so we’ll be administrating it for Essex, Warren and Washington Counties. This is the program that I spoke to you all, a few months about, that we did a pre-application countywide for, where we would take rental units that are currently uninhabitable, have had a CO or were never on the market, rehab them, between $50,000 and $75,000.00 and put them back on the market. This is a program in which the Land Bank, would obviously not be owning these properties. We would be undertaking this work for private property owners. We had over 51 pre-applications in Essex County, alone, for this program. So, we anticipate it being very successful. We project putting over 50 units, back on-line. So, my hope is that you guys will partner with us and great, big news out to constituents. This program is really designed for units, one of the priority parts of this programs is designed for, especially downtown units, that may have had commercial space for years and have had apartments above them, and those apartments, for different reasons, were never on-line and usable. It however, can be used for homes that have been blocked up and you know, turned into condos or multi-unit structures. This program is also, really, only applicable and we’re going to be working closely with code enforcement to good property owners. Folks, that don’t have open violations, are not behind on their taxes and the like and so, I just wanted to bring your attention to that, in particular and I would love to field and questions that you may have.

TYLER: Questions?

REUSSER: Evaluating your community for those kinds of properties, do you have, what do supervisors use to evaluate their community?

JUSTICE-GREEN: For the properties in general or just kind of like who’s passing through your door, that you think might be a good fit?

REUSSER: Properties in general, properties that fit your descript, where people are in good standing in their home, but they may need assistance.

JUSTICE-GREEN: That’s a great question. I’ll pull from some examples that your colleagues, right here, around the table. Actually, Robin, right next to you, and so how a lot of our projects have started over the past three years, that I have now been working with you all, normally you guys come up to me and say, hey, I’ve had five different residents in my office, asking for housing, or they’re having issues with weatherization and they need additional improvements or I had a resident called and they’ve become unhoused, due to flooding or I have a local business owner that’s thinking about buying a historical property, would you come up for a meeting and let’s, you know, work collaboratively. I envision my relationship with every member of this Board, as a partnership. I can’t be necessarily in 18 places at once, but our office has the capability of supporting within our current work and if there’s a demand and a need expressed for more work that we’re not doing, we explore that. The demolition of the properties that we’ve kind of been discussion, collaboratively at the Land Bank Board, as well as this Board, is one of those. We didn’t initially start off doing that or having that funding. We saw it was a need, we applied for it and now we’re starting that program.

REUSSER: Thank you

JUSTICE-GREEN: You’re welcome.

THURSTON: Do you have a flyer that we could share on our Facebook Page?

JUSTICE-GREEN: Yeah, when I get the State’s, I have sent a draft off to the State, they have to approve everything that I say and do. So, when I have final flyer, an application and it’s live on the website, I will sent that, probably off to the, your general supervisor’s email and I will make sure I tag Mike, and all the appropriate parties.

THURSTON: Thank you

TYLER: Thank you, Nicole, have a good day.

JUSTICE-GREEN: Thank you, you, too.

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The next item was Adirondack Roots with Caitlin Wargo reporting as follows:

WARGO: Good morning, everybody and Happy New Year, it’s great to be here. Our report is attached. I don’t have a lot to add, except, we did unfortunately hear, with regards to the Housing Choice Voucher Program, an email from the State, last week, saying that the moratorium would be continued, until further notice, again. So, we’re still adding to the waitlist, we’re serving the voucher holders that we have and we keep a tally and a report of how many voucher holders in each town, are there each month and our waitlist has grown by over 100, since the moratorium began.

And, I am happy to answer any questions about the report.

TYLER: I don’t see anything.

WARGO: Alright.

TYLER: Thank you

WARGO: Thank you

TYLER: Have a wonderful day.

WARGO: You, too.

TYLER: Anything else to come before this Committee? We are adjourned, thank you.

AS THERE WAS NO FURTHER BUSINESS TO COME BEFORE THIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT/PLANNING/PUBLICITY COMMITTEE, IT WAS ADJOURNED AT 10: AM.

Respectfully submitted,

Dina Garvey, Deputy

Clerk of the Board