paying a pilot payment which winds up getting divided the same way as taxes ...school, town, county, village..in the same percentage as taxes. This is a huge investment in that community. “ Steingart added that the Eldred Preserve Project is “going to create jobs, which will create additional money being spent in the community. When that happens, there’s sales tax and room tax..and it has a snowball effect. Business owners are then able to spend more and the community will be in better shape.“
Left to right: County Legislator and IDA Chair Ira Steingart; Luis Alvarez, chairman of the County Legislature, and Joshua Potosek, the County Manager before an August 16, 2018 meeting of the Legislature. (Photo by Rich Klein)
