Thank you to Acting Mayor Jack Diamond

Historic may be overstating this development but perhaps the context is important. Last night, the ARCC was thrilled to attend a meeting between officials in South Glens Falls and the Town of Moreau as they talked openly about cooperating to meet their water needs. This is the precise type of dialogue that we've been trying to encourage by hosting three summits on sharing water and sewer resources in the last couple of months. But the most talked about part of the meeting might just be the fact that Glens Falls' Acting Mayor Jack Diamond drove across the bridge to attend the meeting personally and more importantly spoke at this meeting offering to share water with these communities. For South Glens Falls and Moreau, the best part of the City's offer to them might be the price as the City may be able to deliver water to them for 30% less than the newly created Saratoga County Water Authority. As we've been saying for some time, we have local communities with water and sewer capacity to sell and others locally that need more water and sewer services. One of the ways those that have these resources can afford to make the capital improvements necessary to maintain them is by expanding their customer base and selling their excess capacity to those in need. The City took a huge step toward this new cooperative business model last night and Acting Mayor Jack Diamond is to be commended and applauded for this regional leadership.