Public Meeting Notice
April 11, 2024
State Parks Niagara River Greenway Standing Committee Meeting
| Who: | New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Niagara River Greenway Standing Committee |
| What: | State Parks Standing Committee |
| When: | Thursday, April 11 at 10:30 a.m |
| Where: | Castellani Building at DeVeaux Woods State Park, 3160 DeVeaux Woods Dr, Niagara Falls, NY |
The New York
State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Niagara River
Greenway Standing Committee (State Parks Standing Committee) will meet on
Thursday, April 11 at 10:30 a.m. The meeting will take place in the Castellani
Building at DeVeaux Woods State Park, 3160 DeVeaux Woods Dr, Niagara Falls.
The committee
will vote to approve funding for the Crows Nest Expansion Project being
advanced by NYS Parks. For more information on that project, please visit https://www.niagararivergreenway.com/current-projects.
Press releases will be sent with updates regarding each
meeting and more information can be found at https://parks.ny.gov/newsroom/meeting-notices/.
The State
Parks Standing Committee receives funds from New York Power Authority
(NYPA) as part of a settlement agreement related to the 50-year
license received by NYPA in 2007 for the operation of the Niagara Power
Project. In addition to the State Parks Standing
Committee, three other standing committees were created to
disperse funds those groups received in other settlement agreements
with NYPA. The other committees are the Greenway Ecological
Standing Committee, Host Community Greenway Fund Standing Committee and
the Buffalo and Erie County Greenway Fund Standing Committee.
The Niagara
River Greenway Commission is a public benefit corporation established by
Chapter 460 of the laws of 2004 and charged with the planning and development
of a greenway of interconnected parks, river access points and waterfront
trails along the Niagara River from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario at the site of
the historic Fort Niagara.
To learn more
about the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
visit www.parks.ny.gov.
To learn more
information about the Commission log onto www.niagararivergreenway.com.
For more
information about NYPA and the relicensing of the Niagara project,
please log onto http://niagara.nypa.gov .