NYS Bill Involving Canning Facilities?!

A NYS bill intended to provide start-up and expansion funding for not-for-profit sponsors of small-scale food processing facilities was approved by the NYS Assembly on March 9 and by the Senate on June 3. It will now be sent to the Governor for his approval.

According to a description, bill A04166:
"Establishes a kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen facility program within the urban development corporation to provide grant funding to local development corporations, municipalities, educational institutions and not-for-profit entities for the development or expansion of kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen facilities which make available services such as food production, technical assistance, business management and marketing, distribution, storage and retailing assistance, particularly in economically distressed areas."

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Comment by persephone doliner on August 26, 2009 at 11:30am: Look forward to hearign what U learn from more research. Especially (assuming gov. signs), how long will it be before funding, what kind of amounts likely?

Comment by Alison F on June 30, 2009 at 8:38am: Yeah, it is good news! I'm not sure about the details... still need to do some research on this...

Comment by Katie Quinn-Jacobs on June 29, 2009 at 7:08am: Great! I wonder if our own cooperative ext knows about this? They've had their eye on building a teaching kitchen. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Alison.

-- Kate