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Plattsburgh council discusses five-year financial planning, beach property and waterfront studies
Summary
Councilors agreed to work on a five-year financial forecast with staff and discussed next steps for beach property, waterfront feasibility studies and strategies to boost summer visitation after noting uncertainty in Canadian visitor numbers.
Councilors spent a substantial portion of the meeting discussing a five‑year financial forecast and related planning tasks, and debated how the city should approach long-term projects at the waterfront now that the Civic Center is gone.
On the five‑year plan, staff (Richard and Casey) told councilors they can prepare updated actuals for 2024 and 2025 and populate a worksheet that the council can review. Councilors agreed to start with fixed, verifiable numbers — current expenditures, debt-service obligations and employee costs — and then use a workshop (two two‑hour sessions was suggested) to set assumptions for revenues, inflation and capital priorities. Staff estimated they could prepare the baseline numbers in a few hours; councilors asked that the work be shown live (projected during a…
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