This is the massive regional public corporation that manages huge swaths of the North Country, from Great Sacandaga Lake to the Black River.<\/p>\n
It turns out a court decision in 2008 stripped the HRBRRD of most of its funding, creating a deficit of roughly $4.4 million.<\/p>\n
Now the Hudson River-Black River Regulating District is working on a plan to fund its operations by assessing five counties – Warren, Washington, Saratoga, Albany and Rensselaer – for flood control benefits.<\/p>\n
As you can imagine, county leaders are ecstatic about picking up the cost for the Regulating District’s operations<\/p>\n
But as Doolittle reports, there are other ripple effects as well. HRBRRD is supposed to pay property taxes for shorefront land around Great Sacandaga Lake.<\/p>\n
Its inability to pay those taxes this year to local school districts like Broadalbin-Perth is hurting those already-poor districts in an especially difficult budget year.<\/p>\n
“They’re telling us that they’re making efforts to get the money,” said Stephen Tomlinson, superintendent of Broadalbin-Perth. “It’s money we’ve been counting on.”<\/p>\n
The regulating district owes Broadalbin-Perth $256,000 for the current year, and owes $1.4 million to various school districts in the area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
No one disputes that the Regulating District has done its basic job — preventing flooding on the Hudson and Black Rivers — really well. <\/p>\n
The question now is who will pay for that service to continue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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