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History
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 56–5
- Ordered to third reading cal.1583
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to environmental conservation
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Directs the department of environmental conservation to lease the Rogers environmental education center to the Friends of Rogers Environmental Education Center, Inc. for not less than 40 years
In Assembly Committee · Environmental Conservation · Sponsor William Magee
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Title of bill
An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to providing for the lease of the Rogers environmental education center in the town of Sherburne, county of Chenango, to the Friends of Rogers Environmental Education Center, Inc., and providing for certain terms of such lease
Purpose
To provide the statutory authority and structure of a formal lease between the state of New York and the Friends of Rogers Center for the operation, maintenance, and support of outdoor environmental programs and education at the Rogers Center in Sherburne, NY
Summary of provisions
Section one adds a new subdivision six (6) which outlines the purposes and terms of any lease between the department of environmental conservation and the Friends of Rogers Environmental Education Center, Inc for the operation, maintenance, support and improvement of the Rogers Environmental Center in Sherburne, NY. Section two provides for the effective date.
Existing law
No current law authorizes or requires a long term lease for the Friends of Rogers Environmental Education Center. Chapter 267 of the laws of 1988 authorizes an extended lease between the state office of parks (OPR) and Friends of Hyde Hall for the maintenance of a state historic site.
Justification
During New York's most recent fiscal crisis, the state department of environmental conservation (DEC) moved to close the historic and important environmental education center it operated for years in Sherburne NY for the benefit of the public, including students. At risk were significant outdoor educational programs for students, the public, visitors and tourists, and the beneficial impact of those visitors on the local economy. Rather than see the Rogers Center close, and forfeit its important environmental education programs and its beneficial economic impact, local citizens created a nonprofit organization to take over maintenance and programming from the state on indefinite terms with the DEC. Without the certainty afforded by an extended lease, and flexibility in its fundraising, Friends of Rogers has found it difficult to secure long term funding commitments to invest in the buildings and grounds of the center.
The legislation seeks to capture and encourage local enthusiasm for outdoor environmental education by supporting and strengthening the efforts by volunteers and community citizens to maintain valuable environmental programs at a historic and well known state facility at a time when the state has reduced its commitment to outdoor educational programs.
Legislative history
New bill
Fiscal implications
Beneficial to the state. The subject nonprofit raises and expends funds for the maintenance and betterment of state-owned facilities.
Effective date
Immediate
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