Long Island North Shore Heritage Area, Inc. (LINSHA), the non-profit management agency for this New York State Heritage Area, is pleased to announce its official incorporation by the New York State Department of State on January 22, 2008.
Information for Participating Municipalities
Each participating municipality within the Heritage Area was invited last spring (2007) to send a representative to join with the Incorporators of LINSHA in the drafting of By-Laws for this new management agency. The LINSHA Incorporators, serving as its interim Board of Directors in accordance with its By-Laws, have scheduled an initial annual meeting for 7 PM, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at a location yet to be determined. We are advising you of this annual meeting well in advance in order to begin preparations for our first election of members of the LINSHA Board of Directors, and the subsequent election of officers by the Board.
Also in accordance with LINSHA By-Laws, we are respectfully requesting that the Chief Executive Officer of each participating municipality, select a representative to serve as a voting member of the LINSHA corporation to be eligible for nomination and election to its Board of Directors. For continuity, we suggest that your LINSHA representative be selected (or reconfirmed) each year at your municipality’s annual meeting along with your other routine annual business. However, previously designated representatives shall always retain their positions within LINSHA until LINSHA receives official notice of a change from your office.
If your annual meeting has already been held for 2008, please select (or reconfirm) your LINSHA representative as soon as possible so that our Nominating Committee can consider your representative as a potential candidate for one of the twelve (12) seats on the Board of Directors. Because of LINSHA By-laws notification requirements, the Nominating Committee will not be able to consider for positions on LINSHA’s Board of Directors this year any municipal representatives who are designated after July 31, 2008.
Because the mission of LINSHA is “to preserve, protect, and enhance the cultural, historical and natural resources which define the North Shore of Long Island and to promote responsible economic development of the area compatible within the historical and natural environment,” when selecting a representative we encourage you to consider individuals from your community who have appropriate knowledge of and experience with historic preservation, natural resource management and protection, cultural resource development and/or other fields relevant to this mission. Please forward the name and contact information of your representative to LINSHA via e-mail to Wendy Brodsky (Wendy.Brodsky@oprhp.state.ny.us.)
Please note that, as a participating municipality in LINSHA, your municipality, as well as any non-profit organizations within your boundaries, may now apply to the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation under the Heritage Area System (HAS) application of the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) for support of projects consistent with the goals of the LINSHA Management Plan. When preparing any such applications, please be aware that applicants are required to obtain a letter of support from LINSHA, Inc. to submit with their application. The application deadline for the next round of EPF grants is June 30, 2008. See http://www.nysparks.state.ny.us/grants or call (631) 321-3543 for further information on EPF applications.
We look forward to working with you and your municipal representative toward fulfillment of our common goals.
Information for Non-participating Municipalities
To be eligible to become a Participating Municipality your village must be included within the approved Boundary Area.
Although at this time, your village has elected not to participate in this Heritage Area, we want to invite village representatives to attend this annual meeting and learn more about LINSHA and our mission “to preserve, protect, and enhance the cultural, historical and natural resources which define the North Shore of Long Island and to promote responsible economic development of the area compatible within the historical and natural environment.”
The procedure for becoming a “participating municipality” in the future, should your village chose to do so, is relatively simple. It is detailed in the “Guidelines for Heritage Area Management Plan Amendments” found in the preface to the LINSHA Management Plan, which can be found in the PLANS page of this website. LINSHA has already recommended to New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Commissioner Carolyn Ash that the Villages of Centre Island and Oyster Bay Cove, both having approved the Plan after its December 8, 2006 approval by then Commissioner Bernadette Castro, be added to LINSHA as participating municipalities as soon as possible.
One of the benefits of being a participating municipality in LINSHA is that your municipality, as well as any non-profit organizations within your boundaries, may apply to the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation under the Heritage Area System (HAS) application of the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) for support of projects consistent with the goals of the LINSHA Management Plan. Should this grant opportunity be of interest to you, please note that the application deadline for the next round of EPF grants is June 30, 2008. To be considered in this round, your municipality will need to start work with LINSHA Inc. now to amend the Management Plan in time for the June 30th deadline. See http://www.nysparks.state.ny.us/grants or call (631) 321-3543 for further information on EPF applications.
Again, we hope that a representative from your village will attend the meeting on November 19th as a non-voting guest. We also hope that your village will consider joining LINSHA as a participating municipality, and we look forward to the possibility of working with you toward fulfillment of our common goals.
Sincerely, the LINSHA Incorporators,
John E. Coraor, Ph.D., Town of Huntington
Ira Paul Costell, Port Jefferson Station
Avrum Golub, M.D., J.D., Asharoken
Alexander S. Janow, Asharoken
Deena Lesser, Town of North Hempstead
Gloria D. Rocchio, Stony Brook
Beverly C. Tyler, East Setauket