By Rebecca Martin As part of our ongoing effort to educate citizens on the upcoming Water Referendum that will appear on the November 3rd ballot, we are happy to present this piece, “In their own words” to share insight from residents who live and work inside and out of the City of Kingston. Our lives are intimately … Read more…
By Rebecca Martin This week, many anticipate the scheduled public hearing on the Water Powers legislation on Thursday, July 23rd at 10:00am at Kingston City Hall Council Chambers (this event will be filmed). It is the final step in the process that would include both “the Common Council and the Mayor of Kingston for any water … Read more…
By Rebecca Martin Last night, the Kingston Common Council unanimously passed through an amended Water Powers resolution. We will be following up with the Mayor’s office to get a date on the public hearing that is to occur in the next 10 days (the Daily Freeman reported 20) so that you can organize your schedules … Read more…
By Arthur Zaczkiewicz, MSW WHAT YOU CAN DO: A version of the trade “fast track” goes to the senate. Contact our senator NOW. WATCH Robert Reich on the Trans Pacific Partnership. There’s been a lot of chatter on social media sites, in blogs and – more recently – mainstream news sites about “TPP” and “fast … Read more…
– My name is Karin A. Wolf, and I live in Phoenicia, New York. I have been an active member of Kingston Citizens, The Sierra Club, and Neetopk Keetopk, since this past Fall when the Niagara Bottling Company posed a serious threat to our watershed and its integrity. Droughts and the depletion of ground water … Read more…
Monday, June 1st, 2015 Kingston Common Council Caucus 7:00pm Conference Room #1 Kingston City Hall 420 Broadway, Kingston Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015 Kingston Common Council 7:30pm Council Chambers Kingston City Hall 420 Broadway, Kingston Both meetings will be filmed. By Rebecca Martin At last week’s Public Safety/General Government Committee meeting, a resolution for … Read more…
By Rebecca Martin “We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” – Jacques Cousteau Tonight, Kingston’s Public Safety/General Government Committee passed a resolution unanimously for a referendum that would include the Kingston Common Council for any water sales outside of Kingston’s City Limits. WATCH VIDEO OF LAST NIGHT’S REFERENDUM DISCUSSION Why … Read more…
CITIZEN ACTION: Attend the Kingston Public Safety/General Government Committee Meeting TUESDAY, MAY 26th at 6:30pm at Kingston City Hall (Conference Room #1) where a Public Referendum will be discussed on Including the Common Council in Municipal Water Sales Outside of Kingston’s City Limits. VIEW FACEBOOK INVITATION and please share. By Rebecca Martin In the news now for … Read more…
During the Niagara Bottling proposal, Kingston citizens and the Kingston Common Council came up close and personal to a glaring problem that it had not ever contemplated. The Town of Ulster, a neighboring municipality, wanted to bring a national bottling company to set up shop in Ulster using Start-Up NY tax abatements (and at least one … Read more…
By Rebecca Martin In yesterday’s Daily Freeman, there was a report on the desire of Council members to have ‘Authority over City of Kingston’s Water Supply” that could be subject to public vote. At a recent Public Safety/General Government committee meeting, Ward 5 Alderman and chair of the committee Bill Carey introduced a resolution to … Read more…
On October 15th 2014, the national organization FOOD AND WATER WATCH submitted a FOIL request (New York’s Freedom of Information Law, Public Officers Law 87 et. seq) to Kingston’s Water Department to release “all records and documented communications, including direct written correspondance and emails, between Niagara Bottling Company and/or its representatives and the Board of … Read more…
By Rebecca Martin I received an ARTICLE from a Syracuse paper that’s been forwarded around locally this week where Governor Cuomo was reported to say to Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner that the State has “no plans to send millions of dollars to Syracuse or other upstate cities to fix leaky aging water systems” among other things … Read more…
KingstonCitizens.org would like to express its gratitude to the Kingston Common Council for passing a resolution this evening that will be sent to the Town of Ulster Town Board as Lead Agency in the Niagara Bottling SEQR Process ASAP: 1) For the Town of Ulster Town Board as Lead Agency to provide 80 days from the … Read more…
By Rebecca Martin KingstonCitizens.org is expecting Niagara Bottling Company to deliver their Scoping Document (in SEQRA) any day now. For many months, citizens have petitioned the Town of Ulster as Lead Agency for ac longer public comment period (of at least 60 days) with the opportunity to host a public hearing in each impacted municipality … Read more…
The Niagara bottling proposal is complex and has problems at multiple levels. The statement has been made that the only reason people oppose this project is because they object to plastic water bottle waste. That’s part of the problem, but it’s larger than that. At that level, what’s wrong with the Niagara project is that … Read more…