Land Trust Sticks With Brookwood Status Quo COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego Land Trust has brought plans to change the status quo of 22-acre Brookwood Gardens on Otsego Lake to a close. Meeting over the weekend, the Land Trust board determined none of the proposals received in response to an RFP process met its “requirements to actively protect the conservation values of the property,” Land Trust chair Harry Levine announced Tuesday, Dec. 15. DETAILS IN FREEMAN’S JOURNAL, ON NEWSSTANDS TODAY…
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BROOKWOOD GARDENS’ FATE Land Trust Committee Gets ‘Several’ Proposals COOPERSTOWN – The deadline for RFPs on Brookwood Gardens passed at 5 p.m. today, and Otsego Land Trust Board Chair Harry Levine said “several” proposals for 11 acres of the prime lakeside property have been received. “I’m very encouraged,” said Levine, who said a Land Trust committee will meet Friday for an initial review of the 47 proposals that came out of the request-for-proposal process. He declined to get more specific on the number,…
TOWN BOARD WON’T BID ON BROOKWOOD By JIM KEVLIN • for AllOTSEGO.com FLY CREEK – The Otsego Town Board this evening agreed to back away from the idea of creating a town park at the Otsego Land Trust’s 22-acre Brookwood Gardens. Town Board members took the lead from Councilman Bennett Sandler, who read a detailed statement into the record moments after the 5 p.m. meeting began, where he concluded, “I am disinclined to submit a proposal on behalf of the…
Levine: Meetings With Otsego Town Board Informational, Not Aimed To Guide Outcome COOPERSTOWN – Harry Levine, the Otsego Land Trust board chairman, met with Otsego Town Board members “to answer their questions,” but not to influence them one way or another on whether to pursue a town park at Brookwood Gardens, he said today. “We told them facts,” said Levine. “We repeated what’s in the RFP (request for proposals). Why we‘re doing it. Why we submitted the RFP. What our…
Otsego Town Board Rethinking Town Park At Brookwood Point FLY CREEK – It now appears that the Otsego Town Board, when it meets this evening, will back away from the idea of seeking to create a town park at Brookwood Gardens, according to Town Supervisor Anne Geddes-Atwell. Atwell said Harry Levine, chairman of the Otsego Land Trust board, has been meeting with town board members in recent days, two at a time, as permitted under the state’s Open Meetings Law,…
Otsego Town Board Plans Proposal For Brookwood…
Town Of Otsego Board To Consider Brookwood FLY CREEK – As suggested by Cooperstown trustees the other evening, the Otsego Town Board will consider whether to play a role in preserving Brookwood Gardens for public use, Town Supervisor Anne Geddes Atwell said today. “Once I meet with the board and we discuss it, I will be able to give more specific information on that,” she said. “I am gratified to have the opportunity to consider the idea.” The next regular town…
Trustees On Brookwood: Thanks, But No Thanks COOPERSTOWN – Despite the urging of a majority of people who spoke during the public comment period, the Village Board this evening voted 4-2 not to submit a $1 bid to assume responsibility for 11 acres of Brookwood Gardens, the Otsego Land Trust property overlooking Glimmerglass two miles north of the village limits. The trustees then voted, 5-1, to urge the Town of Otsego, where Brookwood is located, or the County of Otsego or…