By Jill Nagy
A $20,000 planning grant will help the Village of Schuylerville develop plans to spruce up its downtown.
The funds, in the form of a New York Main Street technical assistance grant, will be used to “create a vision” for the village and create a proposal for a larger grant for public and private improvements, according to village Mayor Dan Carpenter.
Schuylerville, a small village with a small tax base, has no funds of its own for planning department, Carpenter noted. The money will be used to retain grant writing experts Flatley Read LLC to help identify appropriate projects. They will work with members of the business community, many of whom are already involved in the process, to learn what they need.