TUG HILL COMMISSION
The Tug Hill Commission will host a free Town Budget Workshop presented by Laird Petrie to assist town officials in preparing their 2022 annual budgets. The training will be offered at two locations, Albion Town Hall, 15 Bridge St., Altmar on Tuesday September 28 from 6:30-8:30pm and Port Leyden Village Office, 3387 Douglas St., Port Leyden on Tuesday, October 5 … Read More...
The Jefferson County Planning Department and NYS Tug Hill Commission are sponsoring free training for planning boards on Monday, September 27 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Jefferson Community College (JCC) in the Jules Center, Room 6-002. This Planning Board Basics course addresses the powers and duties of town, village, and city planning boards and commissions. The administrative and … Read More...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 from 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Ernest Leigh Portner, owner of the former Portner’s Sawmill, will narrate a slideshow of images taken during logging on Gould Paper Company lands in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Leigh, born in the Lee Center area in 1933, was a logger all his life and came from a family of loggers. … Read More...
Tug Hill Commission to Meet September 20
The next business meeting of the Tug Hill Commission will be Monday, September 20 at the West Carthage Community Room, 61 High Street, Carthage, New York 13619.
There is also an option to join remotely via Zoom, using us02web.zoom.us/j/82338298144 or calling 929-205-6099, meeting ID 823 3829 8144.… Read More...
Thursday April 29, 2021 at 7:00 pm
“Open Government” is widely accepted as a desirable goal, but there are complexities and intricacies in implementing its principles. This session, by attorney Mark Schachner, focuses on planning and zoning decision-making at public meetings, communications outside of public meetings, site inspections and “FOIL-ability” of various planning and zoning documents. Other topics to be … Read More...
The Tug Hill Commission releases Headwaters 2020 Newsletter & 2020-21 Annual Report.… Read More...
A recording of this webinar is available on our YouTube Channel.
Michael Martin from the office of New York State Archives presents on the new Retention and Disposition Schedule for New York Local Government Records or LGS-1. The LGS-1 was launched on August 1, 2020 and replaced all previous schedules on January 1, 2021. Its role in local governments, … Read More...
The new Tug Hill Recreation Guide is printed and available, created by a partnership among the 1000 Islands International Tourism Council, Lewis County Chamber of Commerce, Oswego County Tourism, Oneida County Tourism, Tug Hill Commission and Tug Hill Tomorrow Land Trust. The 64-page, full color guide features communities across the region and over 25 full page trail maps for non-motorized … Read More...
The Tug Hill Commission 2020-24 Strategic Plan was adopted by the commission board in October, and is available at https://tughill.org/strategic-plan/.
The new plan reaffirms the commission mission, approach and core competencies, and emphasizes the importance of circuit riders especially in the light of recent Council of Government growth. Looking forward, the commission will spend more time on economic development, … Read More...