Letter from Ellen Pope

Vote ‘Yes’ for Proposition 1

This Election Day, Otsego County voters have the chance to vote for a cleaner environmental future for our children and grandchildren. Proposition 1, the NYS Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act, is on the ballot again for the first time since 1996, and the stakes could not be clearer for the health of Otsego County residents, farmlands, open space, and waterways.

The Act provides significant funding for open space and farmland conservation, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure improvements, flood risk reductions in the Susquehanna Watershed, and projects to address harmful algal blooms like we experienced this past summer on Otsego and Canadarago lakes, and likely will again.

This is a once-in-a-decade opportunity that will bring desperately needed funding into Otsego County to address these critical environmental issues. We at Otsego 2000 urge you to vote for your and your children’s healthy future. Vote Yes on Proposition 1.

Ellen Pope
Executive Director, Otsego 2000