WCA member Jim Infante sent me this a while ago and with the holiday it got lost in the shuffle (sorry Jim!). But for those of you who can attend the meeting tomorrow night or the one on December 14th I am sure your input would be greatly appreciated. Here is what Jim had to say.
November 2012
Dear member of the Catskill community,
The private/public Partnership led by The
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, The Catskill Center
for Conservation and Development, and The Friends of The Catskill Interpretive
Center is making progress in the construction of The Maurice Hinchey Catskill
Interpretive Center in Mount Tremper, in the town of Shandaken. A Kiosk with 16
panels of information about the Catskills has already been erected at the site,
by Route 28.
As part of the planning for the
construction of a facility, the Partnership has engaged a student class of the
Architecture Department of SUNY/Delhi to produce siting and conceptual plans
for a building for the Interpretive Center. The students plan to make two presentations
to the public of architectural drawings illustrating eight concepts of the
planned facility. The Partnership has arranged for these two presentations to
take place at the Shandaken Town Hall (on Route 28) on Wednesday, November 28
from 3:00 to 6:00 PM, and on Friday, December 14 from 3:00 to 6:00 PM. The
November 28 presentation is for the purpose of soliciting comments and
suggestions from interested members of the Catskill community about the then
tentative plans for the facility; these suggestions will be then taken into
consideration by the student designers who will then, at the December 14
meeting, present the final designs they propose. These eight proposals will
provide the conceptual foundations for the final detail design of the facility
to house The Maurice Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center.
On behalf of the Partnership, I wish to
extend a cordial invitation to you, and through you to any interested member of
the Catskill community, to attend either one or both of these meetings and to
actively make comments and suggestions regarding the details of the student
proposals and designs. The Partnership, and the Catskill community, is most
grateful for the enthusiastic work of these students and for the great and
generous support provided to this project by the SUNY/Delhi faculty and
administration.
I look forward to see you at these
meetings.
Cordially yours,
E. F. Jim Infante
On behalf of the Partnersip
