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General News: Village Wants to Change Yacht Club Lease

October 20, 2010

The village of Cornwall-on-Hudson is looking into renegotiating a lease that it has with the Cornwall Yacht Club for a small strip of land with a building on it that the club uses for storage.

On Monday, Mayor Gross described how the village agreed 25 years ago to rent the property, a 50-foot wide parcel that includes the former Seaman’s Chapel that was built by the Quakers, for $250 a year for 100 years. “This is a valuable asset of the village and in my mind it was a giveaway at 250 dollars,” Mayor Gross his fellow board members. “I would like to get a better deal for the village.”

Earlier in the meeting, village resident Frank Ostrander spoke in favor of the village making better use of the waterfront in front of the chapel, recommending that the village consider shared access to the area with small boar storage. He also suggested moving the boat launch to the sheltered cove that he said is a better location than the current site of the public dock.

Mayor Gross said that as a first step, he would like the attorney to review the village’s legal standing regarding the lease.



Comments:

Two items:

There was already a boat launch at that location for many years

Isn't "a deal a deal"? How does one decide 25 years later that they got the bad end of the stick and look to rewrite an agreement.


posted by dan harden on 10/20/10 at 4:28 PM

I can see how the chapel would be an asset. But the use would have to be carefully considered as not to make the place look any worse. The boat launch as is stands is working just fine. The cove is a little gem of a spot and shouldn't be defaced with an unnecessary boat launch. Please waste the tax payers money somewhere else. How about that landslide waiting to happen and kill somebody on Dock Hill road?


posted by J Klein on 10/21/10 at 6:26 AM

yes, "a deal is a deal" and a sweetheart deal is a sweetheart deal.

Who represented the taxpayers when they gave the riverfront access for $250 per YEAR (for 99 years)?

Give us (regular village taxpayers who are not yacht club members) a break!


posted by Emily Thomas on 10/21/10 at 9:23 AM

Here is the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yG18-nB3ls
or at ArgenioAndrew
on youtube


posted by Andrew Argenio on 10/22/10 at 8:41 PM

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