Day: September 23, 2014

TAKE ACTION: Print Materials for Public Distribution on the Niagara Bottling Co. Proposal.

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Here are print materials for public distribution in both English and Spanish on the Niagara Bottling Co. and how you can help to get the word out for more citizen input on the proposed use/purchase of Kingston City Water.

Print out and make copies for your neighbors who do not have a computer. Help us to fill Common Council Chambers on October 7th at 7:30pm to speak, listen and support during Public Comment.

 

IN ENGLISH:

DOWNLOAD: KingstonCitizens.org: Page One

DOWNLOAD: KingstonCitizens.org: Page Two

Jobs and the Promise of Urban Agriculture

IN SPANISH:

DOWNLOAD: KingstonCitizens.org: Page One (Spanish)

DOWNLOAD: KingstonCitizens.org: Page Two (Spanish)

Jobs: Urban Agriculture and Niagara Bottling Co.

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By Rebecca Martin

Niagara Bottling Co. wants to come to the area (tax free) to bottle and to sell 1.75 million gallons of Kingston City Water (Cooper Lake) per day. The Water may be tax free too. It is unclear whether or not that to be the case at this time.

The City of Kingston’s Water Department has provided a ‘will share’ letter to the project, but has not yet negotiated a rate (probably because they can’t without the Common Council’s permission).

With an estimated 260 trucks per day coming and going out of the site! That’s a lot of trucks.

According to their proposal, ALL FOR 160 JOBS when the facility is working at full capacity.

LOOK HERE. Based on an Urban Agriculture study that was created specifically for Kingston, the City of Kingston has approximately 800 acres of zoned ‘vacant’ land in Kingston. With just 35 acres working for us inside the city, we would create approximately 156 jobs. Kingston is way ahead of the curve on the Urban Ag front in the Hudson Valley, too.

We can do this, Kingston.

 

READ THE REPORT
ON URBAN AG IN KINGSTON