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Metroplex eases
SCCC cleanup costs
    SCHENECTADY — Schenectady County Community College has received a $100,000 grant from the Metroplex Development Authority to offset some of the cost of the damage incurred by the college during Tropical Storm Irene last year.
    The funding is part of an Emergency Commercial District Investment Grant from National Grid to Metroplex.
    The college was hit by more than $500,000 in direct storm-related costs including removing debris and repairing infrastructure. Electrical repairs totaled more than $150,000, according to Board of Trustees Chairwoman Denise Murphy McGraw.
    During the August 2011 fl ooding, the surging Mohawk River submerged the college’s parking lot off Washington Avenue. Water seeped into Elston Hall, fl ooding the copy and mail room. Water also flooded the basement of the Begley Building.

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You are misguided by more than three criteria.  100,000 has everything to do with what they are about.

Quoted from AVON

What we do:   The Schenectady County Metroplex Development Authority's works to attract new jobs and new investment to Schenectady County. Its efforts focus on key commercial corridors and business parks strategically located throughout the County with a special emphasis on redevelopment of the downtown area in the City of Schenectady.

We are guided by the three criteria:

1.to expand the county's property tax base;
2.to expand the sales tax base; and
3.to create and retain jobs.

            And the $100,000 dollar grant for storm damage expenses has what to do with their above mission statement??  

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CITY OF SCHENECTADY
2010-2014 CONSOLIDATED PLAN
2
Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.................................................................................................................... 3
CONSULTATION ................................................................................................................................ 9
2010-2014 CITIZEN PARTIPATION PROCESS.................................................................................11
HOUSING............................................................................................................................................15
HOMELESSNESS ...............................................................................................................................21
LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARDS......................................................................................................25
PUBLIC AND ASSISTED HOUSING.................................................................................................28
BARRIERS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING......................................................................................30
SPECIAL NEEDS ................................................................................................................................37
ANTI-POVERTY STRATEGY............................................................................................................41
INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE/COORDINATION
HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS CONSORTIUM.................................................................43
HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT STRATEGY 2010-2014 .................55
2010 SUMMARY/ONE YEAR ACTION PLAN 2010-2011
NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION STRATEGY........................................................................61
MONITORING ....................................................................................................................................76
MAPS...................................................................................................................................................78
EXHIBITS (included as separate attachments)
A. CONSULTATION DOCUMENTATION
B. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION DOCUMENTATION