Letter to the Editor

We “the noise” was correct

By Don Berger, Montgomery
Posted 7/22/21

During the application process for Amazon and Medline, Orange County Partnership CEO Maureen Hallahan referred to RPM and Montgomery residents as “NOISE”. One of the issues that we …

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Letter to the Editor

We “the noise” was correct

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During the application process for Amazon and Medline, Orange County Partnership CEO Maureen Hallahan referred to RPM and Montgomery residents as “NOISE”. One of the issues that we presented to Town, Planning and IDA Boards was low paying jobs and we as a community would not be able to support these jobs. Seems we were correct.

This past week Amazon, as reported by media outlets, dangles $3,000 signing bonuses for some jobs in its Montgomery facility. It states that “Amazon is so pressed for workers to staff the giant warehouse it just built” in Montgomery. 

Our Town did not listen to residents, instead listened to Bezos and Hallahan and their plans for our Town. Of course neither live in Montgomery.

Presently Montgomery has many warehouse projects ready for approvals once the Town Moratorium ends in August. We must demand that our town uses sensible approval processes, one being, can we employ these facilities. And does it fit into our community? Answer, NO.

Let’s tell Hallahan to bring her projects to Wurtsboro. Oh wait NOT in Hallahan’s backyard!