Town Of Saugerties

Duties:

The Town Board established the commission by local law in 1972. Its duties are to survey and monitor area natural resources and environmental conditions. It makes recommendations to the Town Board regarding conservation and protection of our natural resources and the environment.  The commission works with and advises planning and zoning boards to ensure that development is environmentally sound and planned with the future in mind.  The Conservation Advisory Commission (CAC) may have between 5 and 9 members.

The commission meets via Zoom.  Commission meetings are open to the public.  (Meeting dates and times covered in next paragraph.)

In March 2018, the Town Board appointed the CAC to serve as a Climate Smart Saugerties Task Force.  The Climate Smart Saugerties Task Force meets at 5:00 p.m. on the third Thursday of every month, also via Zoom.  Each Climate Smart Saugerties Task Force meeting starts at 5 p.m. and precedes a Conservation Advisory Commission regular session at 6 p.m.

The adopted "Climate Action Plan" (adopted May 15, 2019) is available for viewing/downloading on the the Climate Action Plan page.

Members:

• Skip Marcus Arthur (skipart1@gmail.com) - Chair
  Phone: 845-246-9906
• Elizabeth Shafer (elspeth212@earthlink.net)
  Phone: 845-246-4947
• Nicole Roskos (nroskos@gmail.com)
• Mike Harkavy (mharkavy@hvc.rr.com)
  Phone: 845-246-7493
• Leslie Surprenant (ljsurpre@yahoo.com)
• Carole Furman (octagon@hvc.rr.com)
• Ken Goldberg (k2535@aol.com)
  Phone: 845-246-5466
• Linda Armour (lkarmour1968@gmail.com)
• Mary O'Donnell (mhodonnell316@gmail.com)
• James Spider Barbour (spiderbarbour@gmail.com)
  Honorary Member

The Town Board liaison to the Conservation Advisory Commission is  Zach Horton.

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