Rockland County Government/Regulations
The Rockland County Board of Legislators are sending County Executive Ed Day a bill that would limit the use of disposable single-use plastic carryout bags at businesses throughout the county.
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A coalition of more than 100 business, civic, political and labor industry reps are calling for New York State to spend a total of $500 million to expand the existing Route 17 in Orange and Sullivan counties.
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Robin Rosenberg, president and director of the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, has been appointed to the Governor’s Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council.
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Emphasizing the need to keep Rockland’s economic engines revved up and ready for competing challenges, County Executive Ed Day is strongly urging Clarkstown and the Palisades Center to work out their differences, and allow the mall to build out 250,000 square feet of fallow space.
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The DOT has returned comments asking the town for additional traffic studies along state Route 59
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The Town of Clarkstown has formed a business and economic development advisory committee to work in conjunction with stimulating the Nanuet/Route 59 corridor and updating of the town’s comprehensive plan.
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James Elcik, a former officer in the United States Marshals Service, has been named Rockland County’s Director of Consumer Protection.
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A new law banning plastic bags and Styrofoam containers is making Piermont’s business owners better environmental stewards, and encouraging other municipalities to follow suit.
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Citing the success of using tourism to drive Rockland County’s economic engine at an afternoon ceremony today at the Penguin Rep Theatre in Stony Point, the county today gifted 22 nonprofits with $211,000 in tourism grants. Partially funded by the state, I Love New York, an affiliate of New York’s Empire State Development, kicked in $62,650.
Continue ReadingCounty Executive Ed Day and County Attorney Thomas Humbach announced an agreement through the New York State Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) regarding a negotiated settlement with the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA).
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