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Regional planning board asks Chemung County to double annual contribution amid federal funding uncertainty
Summary
Southern Tier Central Regional Planning and Development Board says federal grants are delayed and may shrink; it asked Chemung County to raise its annual cash contribution from $85,000 to $170,000 to sustain services and leverage matching funds.
Chelsea Robertson, a representative of the Southern Tier Central Regional Planning and Development Board, told the Chemung County Legislature that the regional planning body faces near-term funding pressure and asked the county to consider doubling its annual cash contribution.
Robertson said Southern Tier Central (STC), which she described as a municipal government under New York law serving Steuben, Schuyler and Chemung counties, relies heavily on federal grants and county cash contributions to match competitive programs such as the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) and the Economic Development Administration (EDA). “We are primarily federally funded and there's some, you know, weird things happening in Washington,” Robertson said, adding that delayed federal payments and proposed limits on indirect cost reimbursements threaten STC’s budget.
STC provided the legislature with a 2024 annual report and a new Chemung County investment report showing how county…
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