Year end 2009 summary of the Brookfield Comprehensive Planning Committee

By Honna Bowen

(Brookfield, NY) In the past year we focused on the structure of the committee and of encouraging and gaining participants to join in the committee. We have assembled a draft list of priorities to focus on.

We have invited stake holders to brief us on their problems and needs as well as their structure with regard to how it affects the town of Brookfield; in this case we spoke with two fire company leaders. We expect feed back in regard to an organizational chart and as well as outline of their organization duties and functions.

We plan to repeat this process with other stake holders and groups of citizens. For the town’s citizen’s we’ve tried to organize these citizens in groups by geographical areas so as to be able consult with them about their local needs and desires.

The committee gained knowledge from other planning board’s experience from across the state of New York and from other neighboring states. This was useful to help us understand the problems and needs of a successful effort. As well as learning what a comprehensive plan covers and the difference in depth of detail.

The committee recognizes the difficulty of achieving the goals set out in our mission statement due to the lack of a total cost to implement this program.

Stake holders and geographical citizen groups:

Citizens and their geographical groupings:

Brookfield proper, North Brookfield East of route 12 ,West of route 12 , Leonardsville, West Edmeston, Gordon lake, Unadilla forks west of the Unadilla river, South Brookfield, 5 corners, Route 8 corridor, Route 12 corridor.

Town Administration:

Town Council and related Officers, Highway Department, Planning Board, Historical Society, Parks and recreation.

Emergency Services:

Leadership and its administration, Fire Service, Rescue/Ambulance, general membership with auxiliaries.

Schools: Town of Brookfield, Administration, PTA, Mount Markum, Student body.

Private Concerns

Churches and Religious Groups:

Business and Commercial Concerns:

General Stores, Brookfield, Klings, Wagner’s, Moscow Hill, Jean Krause, Taylor’s Tack, Auto Repair shops, Welding Services, General Contractors, Trucking services, Salvage yards, Crane service. Sub groups cottage industries: Maple syrup producers and processors, etc.

Agriculture and closely related business:

Dairy, Livestock, Small fur bearing livestock, Horse breeding, equine boarding/training, Cash crops, Hay production.

Private Groups: Recreational land owners, Club’s: Rod and Gun, 4 H, Girl scouts, Boy scouts, Hunt clubs, Hiking groups, Snowmobile clubs, Horseback riders.

As a further summary we expect significant challenges to finish this effort however we believe that with the present group we can accomplish this task.

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Year end 2009 summary of the Brookfield Comprehensive Planning Committee

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