(Monticello, NY) - Last month, Sullivan County launched a land use and economic development plan, in conjunction with the Village of Monticello and the Town of Thompson, for the area surrounding the Montreign-Adelaar casino resort project. Funded by USDA as “The Monticello-Thompson Gateway Corridor Strategic Plan,” the effort has been dubbed the “Grow the Gateways (GTG)” project by its steering committee to reflect its focus on revitalizing the major County “gateways” to new resort development and existing attractions such as Bethel Woods.

(Monticello, NY) - Please be advised that the twenty-third meeting of the Charter Review Commission will be held on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 6:00 P.M., in the *Legislative Hearing Room*, 100 North Street, 2nd Floor Monticello, NY 12701.

Due to the forecast of inclement weather for tomorrow morning, please be advised that the Legislative Committee Meetings scheduled for tomorrow, February 9, 2017 have been cancelled and rescheduled for Tuesday, February 14, 2017 as follows:

Please make a note of this schedule change.

(Monticello, NY) - There will be an Organizational Meeting of the Sullivan County Land Bank Corporation held on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 8:30AM in the Legislative Committee Room, 100 North Street, Monticello, New York. The purpose of the meeting is to adopt bylaws, elect officers, establish sub-committees, and to perform other business as required of the Board.

(Monticello, NY) - There will be a special meeting of the Sullivan County Land Bank Corporation held on Thursday, March 2nd at 8AM in the Legislative Committee Room, 100 North Street, Monticello, New York. The purpose of the meeting is to continue business from the Organizational meeting held on February 14, 2017.

Please be advised that the Legislative Committee Meetings scheduled for Thursday April 13, 2017 are cancelled and rescheduled to Tuesday, April 18, 2017 as follows:

9:15AM       Health and Family Services
10:30AM     Management and Budget  
11:15AM     Public Works
12:30PM     Ag and Sustainability

Monticello, N.Y. –Sullivan County Manager Joshua Potosek has announced that the County is recovering from the storm damage caused by Saturday’s storm.  There are power outages across the County.  NYSEG, Central Hudson, and Orange and Rockland Utilities are working to restore power.

In response to localized power outages the Town of Lumberland has activated their Town Hall and Municipal Building as a warming center.  The warming center is located at 1054 Proctor Road, Glen Spey, New York.  The Town can be reached at phone number 845-856-8600 extension #1221.

(Liberty, NY 4:30pm) - An emergency preparedness exercise will take place at the Sullivan County Emergency Services Training Facility on Tuesday, February 28, from 9 am to 2 pm. Sullivan County Public Health Services, public safety and emergency preparedness personnel will exercise key parts of the county’s Health Emergency Operations Plan by simulating responses to a hypothetical influenza pandemic impacting county residents.

(Monticello, NY) - Ms Guisela Marroquín. of NYCLU, is scheduled to present a discussion on Immigrant Rights to the Human Rights Commission on Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 6:15 pm.

Guisela Marroquín is the regional organizer for the Long Island and Lower Hudson Valley chapters of the New York Civil Liberties Union. Ms. Marroquín leads statewide work in NYCLU’s Justice for Farmworkers Campaign and carries out our educational and police reform priorities in both regions.

(Liberty, NY 12:10pm) - The Sullivan County Local Early Intervention Coordinating Council (LEICC) will meet Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at 3PM at the Sullivan County Shared Clinic Facility in Liberty. Early Intervention (EI) provides in-home services like physical, occupational and speech therapy to children with disabilities and or developmental delays.