WOODSTOCK WATER TREATMENT PLANT - REED BED

I received the following email this week.   

“Mike Kutcher (father of Gary Kutcher, currently running for the town board), and Mary Burke wrote a grant application to the NYS DEC for a reed bed, 15 years ago.  Mike had read about reed beds and how they worked, and he had gone down to Highland to observe the “working reed bed” at an apple orchard down there.  That orchard used it to absorb the residues from their cider-making process.  I believe there was a vineyard in that area that also incorporated a reed bed to absorb the residues from their wine making operation.  Mike and Mary actually drove to the DEC headquarters in Tarrytown and hand-delivered that grant request and were “assured” that it was complete and stood a good chance of receiving some grant money.  A short time later the Town was advised that the proposal had not gotten any money that year, but that it would be “kept on file for the following year’s grants fund requests”.  Why that wasn’t pursued by the Town Board that following year, or any other year until recently, is the question.   Mike Kutcher did all the preliminary research and then he got Mary Burke involved in helping him with writing the grant proposal.” 

How many Town Board administrations have there been since then? How many members of the current Town Board were a part of those administrations?  At least two, Wilber and McKenna we need a change; let us finally “GET IT DONE”. Vote For Me, For You.