End may be nigh for NCDA

It could be curtains for the Newburgh Community Development Agency (NCDA.)  At the city council work session held March 4, new corporation counsel Bernis Nelson proposed that the city assume the assets and liabilities of the NCDA.
What is the NCDA?
The NCDA is the successor to the Newburgh Urban Renewal Agency, created to manage urban renewal [...]

3.4.10: financial update, CROs, Dr. Blue, & loan program

Video excerpts from the city council work session Thursday, March 4, 2010.
The work session began with a grave report on the city’s financial status, given by Dwight Hadley, CPA, and assisted by Christine Mitchell, CPA, the city’s new comptroller:

Hadley notes that the city is in substantial debt, approximately $10M for 2009 and at least $6M [...]

Deja vu all over again

Attendees of the Newburgh City Council work session this past Thursday might have had a funny “Back to the Future” feeling when Neil Novesky was invited to the table.  The council was vetting Novesky and his wife Elizabeth to serve as CDBG consultants under Courtney Kain, Acting Planning Department Director.   Community Deveopment Block Grant (CDBG) [...]